Safety Manager
- Safety Manager
- the role that is played when a person
manages the
safety engineering activity
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Safety Manager is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Safety manager are to:
- Chair the
safety team.
- Define and document the safety terms and categories:
- Standardize the definitions of key safety terms.
- Develop the accident severity categories.
- Develop the accident probability levels.
- Develop the hazard risk categories.
- Investigate and document accidents.
- Ensure that safety tasks are performed in accordance with
associated standards and procedures.
- Produce and maintain the safety documents:
- Sign the safety certification.
Safety Manager typically inherits the
general role responsibilities from the
role method component.
To fulfill these responsibilities, safety managers typically
should have the following expertise, training, and
knowledge:
- Expert knowledge of and experience with safety
engineering tasks, techniques, and tools.
- Expert knowledge of safety architectural mechanisms and
components.
- Solid knowledge of safety requirements.
- Basic knowledge of the customer’s business and
application domain(s).
- A bachelor’s degree in software engineering,
computer science, or the equivalent.
- One of the following safety certifications:
Safety managers typically perform the following
role-specific tasks in an iterative,
incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:
Safety manager typically inherits
common role tasks from the
role method component.
Safety managers typically perform these tasks as members of
the following teams:
As members of these teams, safety managers typically produce
all or part of the following work products:
