Abstract
Safety by design is a challenge not because designers are unwilling to design safe products or systems but because they focus on the creation of products that fulfil customer wishes as much as possible, and it is hard to focus on intended functions for a product and unintended functions or malfunctions at the same time. The paper highlights the ever-increasing safety challenges for designers, and it argues that safety must be an integral part of the design process.
Highlights
Designers need to be aware of the great values that safety can add to their works
Designers must be aware of this fundamental need for safe products because they have the largest influence and they are liable for the safety-related matters
Safety is not an apparent metric for performance and can be confused by quality, reliability, or cost. This may impose pressure on the designers to compromise for safety, which would be a pity because designers have the opportunity of making the product right in the first place
Summary
Designers need to be aware of the great values that safety can add to their works. Safety reflects the societal need for being free from harm used in many different domains. Safety brands well and provides competitor advantages for designers and producers. In the process described there, risk assessment is a critical part which can help designers to assess the risk properly and design safer products This standard is a summary of best practices for safety of machinery (ISO, 2010). The BP spill oil, the so-called BP oil disaster, in April 2010 in Gulf of Mexico killed eleven people and discharged approximately 4.9 million barrels to the ocean according to the government estimation This accident imposed a temporary ban on BP for new. Designers must be aware of this fundamental need for safe products because they have the largest influence and they are liable for the safety-related matters.
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