Safety engineering is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering / industrial engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life-critical system behaves as needed even when components fail.
Read more about Safety Engineering: Overview, Analysis Techniques, Safety Certification, Preventing Failure, Safety and Reliability, Containing Failure
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