Safety Team

Definition

Safety Team

the team that develops and carries out the safety program by performing the safety engineering tasks

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Safety Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Safety Team are to:

• 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:
  • Accident Investigation Report
  • Safety Certification
  • Safety Compliance Assessment Report
  • Safety Log
  • Safety Program Plan
  • Safety Risk Analysis Report
  • Safety Status Report
• Help develop the :
  • Safety Requirements
  • Architectural safety mechanisms
• Evaluate the:
  • Safety Requirements
  • Architectural safety mechanisms
  • Design for safety
  • Implementation for safety
  • Integration for safety
• Sign the safety certification.

A safety team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

A safety team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Safety Manager, who is primarily responsible for managing the safety team.
• Safety Engineer, who is primarily responsible for performing the safety engineering tasks.
• Safety Auditor, who is primarily responsible for performing safety audits.
• Safety Certifier, who is primarily responsible for certifying the safety of the system.
• Safety Evaluator, who is primarily responsible for evaluating the safety case.
• Representatives from the following teams:
  • Requirements Team, who is primarily responsible for helping to translate the safety risk analysis into safety requirements.
  • Architecture Team, who is primarily responsible for helping to produce the safety mechanisms.
  • System Testing Team, who is primarily responsible for helping to support safety testing.
• Technical Writer, who documents the safety work products.

Tasks

A safety team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Safety Engineering:
  • Accident Investigation
  • Safety Certification
  • Safety Compliance Assessment
  • Safety Program Planning
  • Safety Risk Analysis
  • Safety Monitoring
• Requirements Engineering (in collaboration with the Requirements Team):
  • Requirements Identification (of safety requirements)
  • Requirements Reuse (of safety requirements)
  • Requirements Analysis (of safety requirements)
  • Requirements Specification (of safety requirements)

A safety team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

A safety team typically produces the following work products:

• Safety Work Products:
  • Accident Investigation Report
  • Safety Certification
  • Safety Compliance Assessment Report
  • Safety Log
  • Safety Program Plan
  • Safety Risk Analysis Report
  • Safety Status Report
• Requirements Work Products:
  • Safety Requirements

Guidelines

• TBD
• A safety team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.