Safety Engineer
- Safety Engineer
- the role that is played when a
person is primarily responsible for the performance of
safety engineering
tasks within the
development organization
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Safety Engineer is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Safety Engineer 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:
- Help develop the :
- Evaluate the:
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Safety Requirements
- Architectural safety mechanisms
- Design for safety
- Implementation for safety
- Integration for safety
Safety Engineer typically inherits the
general role responsibilities from the
role method component.
To fulfill these responsibilities, safety engineers
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 the safety-related 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 or more of the following safety certifications:
Safety engineers typically perform the following
role-specific tasks in an iterative,
incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:
Safety Engineer typically inherits
common role tasks from the
role method component.
Safety Engineer typically performs these tasks as members of the following teams:
As members of these teams, safety engineers typically
produce all or part of the following work products:
- If there is no safety auditor, then the safety engineer
requires sufficient independence, both organizationally and
financially, to fulfill the responsibilities without any
possible conflict of interest.
- This role typically inherits the
common team guidelines from the
roles process component.
