TBD

Authors

  • Charles Hoes Hoes Engineering

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56094/jss.v54i2.69

Keywords:

conference, initiatives, standard

Abstract

My main focus during the Conference was on making sure that the Virtual Chapter’s suggestions for four Society initiatives received a fair hearing to determine whether to go forward with the ideas. The Executive Council and the people who attended our presentations were overwhelmingly in agreement that we brought good and valuable ideas that should be implemented by the International System Safety Society (ISSS) as a whole, rather than as independent actions of our small chapter. These four initiatives are:

1. Create a “motherhood” standard that describes the key goals and elements of a system safety program as understood and promoted by members of the ISSS.

2. Assist university engineering departments with integrating system safety concepts into their existing classes and curricula, starting with Arizona State University but expanding to other colleges and universities in the future.

3. Work to create system safety courses for system safety engineers that reflect the goals and elements of the “motherhood” standard developed in the first initiative.

4. Create a means of certifying system safety engineers as having the experience and expertise necessary to be fully qualified system safety engineers.

Author Biography

Charles Hoes, Hoes Engineering

Charles “Charlie” Hoes began his consulting business in 1984, providing system safety engineering services to defense, aerospace, semiconductor and general industry. During that time he has become a P.E. in Safety in the State of California, a Certified Safety Profession (CSP) with a specialty System Safety Practices and earned a Master of Science degree in Safety from University of Southern California. In 1988 Charlie incorporated his business under the name of “Hoes Engineering, Inc.” He has many years of experience volunteering in support of the International System Safety Society, filling many positions including past President of the Sacramento Chapter, the Virtual Chapter, and the System Safety Society. He is a past technical editor of the System Society’s journal Hazard Prevention (re-named to be the Journal of System Safety), as well as authoring an ongoing feature article of the Journal of System Safety called “TBD” where he discusses current concerns with the system safety profession.

In his new role of being semi-retired, Charlie continues to actively work with the System Safety Society as well as participating in a few “for hire” and volunteer projects that are particularly interesting, or important, for a variety of reasons. He is enjoying the ability of being a bit more selective with regard to projects that he accepts.

TBD

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Published

2018-10-01

How to Cite

Hoes, C. (2018). TBD. Journal of System Safety, 54(2), 6–7. https://doi.org/10.56094/jss.v54i2.69