Master the Complete System Safety Assessment Process. Learn how to design, tailor, and execute a comprehensive system safety assessment programme — from Preliminary Hazard Identification through to Environmental Hazard Analysis.
Mil-Std-882E Tasks 201–210 · 69 lessons · 10.5 hours of video · Self-paced online training
Learn the process. Master the analyses. Build a defensible safety assessment.
Can you design a complete System Safety Assessment Programme?
System safety is more than identifying a few hazards and putting them into a spreadsheet.
A credible safety programme needs to establish:
- what can go wrong;
- how and why it can happen;
- who or what can be harmed;
- how hazards are controlled;
- whether safety requirements are adequate;
- whether controls have been implemented;
- whether residual risk is acceptable; and
- whether the evidence supports your safety assessment.
And different stages of the system lifecycle require different forms of analysis.
That’s where this course comes in.
System Safety Assessment takes you through the complete suite of Mil-Std-882E Tasks 201–210, showing you how the analyses fit together and, importantly, how to put them together into a coherent safety assessment programme.
From Hazard Identification to a Complete Safety Assessment
The course takes you through the complete sequence:
System Safety Process
↓
Tailor the Safety Assessment Programme
↓
Identify Hazards
↓
Analyse Hazards
↓
Derive and Assess Safety Requirements
↓
Analyse Subsystems and the Complete System
↓
Analyse Operations, Human Health and Functions
↓
Analyse System-of-Systems and Environmental Hazards
↓
Build the Safety Assessment
This is not a collection of disconnected hazard-analysis techniques.
It is a system safety process.
What You’ll Learn
By completing this course, you will develop the knowledge and practical understanding to:
Design a System Safety Assessment Programme
Understand the overall Mil-Std-882E system safety process and determine which analyses are appropriate for your system.
Tailor the Process
Learn how to tailor your safety assessment activities to the characteristics, lifecycle, complexity and risk profile of your system.
Identify Hazards Early
Use Preliminary Hazard Identification to establish an initial understanding of the system’s hazard environment.
Analyse Hazards Systematically
Apply the appropriate hazard-analysis techniques at different levels of the system lifecycle and architecture.
Assess Safety Requirements
Understand how system requirements can introduce, control or fail to adequately address hazards.
Analyse System and Subsystem Hazards
Follow hazards through the system architecture and examine how subsystem design contributes to system-level risk.
Analyse Operations and Support
Consider hazards arising from operation, maintenance, logistics, servicing and other support activities.
Assess Health Hazards
Identify and analyse hazards that can affect personnel health.
Analyse System Functions
Apply Functional Hazard Analysis to understand how failures or abnormal functional behaviour can contribute to hazards.
Analyse Systems of Systems
Understand the additional challenges created when multiple systems interact to create a larger operational capability.
Analyse Environmental Hazards
Assess hazards associated with the operating environment and environmental conditions.
The Complete Mil-Std-882E Task 201–210 Programme
Task 201 — Preliminary Hazard Identification
Start by identifying the hazards associated with the system, its intended use and its operating environment.
Learn how to establish the foundation for subsequent safety analyses.
Task 202 — Preliminary Hazard Analysis
Move from initial hazard identification to structured analysis.
Understand how hazards, causes, effects, controls and risk can be examined early enough to influence system design.
Task 203 — System Requirements Hazard Analysis
Examine system requirements from a safety perspective.
Identify requirements that may introduce hazards, fail to control hazards adequately, or require additional safety provisions.
Task 204 — Subsystem Hazard Analysis
Take the analysis down into the subsystem level.
Understand how subsystem design and implementation can contribute to hazards identified at the system level.
Task 205 — System Hazard Analysis
Bring the analysis back to the complete system.
Examine interactions between components and subsystems and assess how the integrated system can produce hazardous outcomes.
Task 206 — Operating and Support Hazard Analysis
Safety doesn’t stop when the system is designed.
Analyse hazards associated with:
- operation;
- maintenance;
- servicing;
- logistics;
- support equipment;
- personnel activities; and
- other operating and support activities.
Task 207 — Health Hazard Analysis
Examine hazards that may affect personnel health.
Consider the relationship between system design, operating conditions, human exposure and health effects.
Task 208 — Functional Hazard Analysis
Analyse system functions and determine how functional failures, degraded performance or abnormal behaviour can contribute to hazardous conditions.
Task 209 — System-of-Systems Hazard Analysis
Modern capabilities rarely operate in isolation.
Learn how to consider hazards arising from the interactions between multiple systems that collectively deliver an operational capability.
Task 210 — Environmental Hazard Analysis
Consider the effects of the operating environment on system safety.
Analyse environmental conditions that can contribute to hazards or affect the effectiveness of safety controls.
Understand How the Analyses Fit Together
One of the biggest challenges in system safety is knowing which analysis to perform, when to perform it, and how the results connect.
The course therefore begins with the overall system safety process before working through the individual analyses.
You will see how:
Hazard Identification
leads to
Hazard Analysis
which leads to
Safety Requirements
which lead to
Design Controls
which lead to
Verification and Validation
which ultimately contribute to
Residual Risk Assessment and Safety Acceptance.
The objective is not simply to complete ten Mil-Std-882E tasks.
The objective is to create a coherent safety argument.
Learn the Principle Behind the Task
Mil-Std-882E provides a framework.
But knowing the task number is not the same as knowing how to perform the analysis effectively.
This course focuses on understanding:
- what each analysis is intended to achieve;
- what information you need before starting;
- how to structure the analysis;
- what questions the analyst needs to ask;
- how the analysis relates to other safety activities;
- what outputs should be produced;
- how results should inform system design;
- and how the individual analyses contribute to the overall safety assessment.
The result?
You develop a systems-thinking approach to safety assessment, rather than simply learning a collection of templates.
Who Is This Course For?
System Safety Engineers
If system safety is your profession, this course provides a structured way to develop or refresh your understanding of the complete Mil-Std-882E analysis suite.
Safety Engineers Moving Into a New Industry
The principles of system safety are widely applicable.
Use the course to understand how the Mil-Std-882E task structure can be applied across different types of complex and safety-critical systems.
Systems Engineers
Systems engineering and system safety are closely connected.
This course helps you understand how hazards, requirements, architecture, design and verification interact.
Engineering Managers and Technical Leads
You don’t need to perform every analysis yourself.
But you do need to understand what a good analysis looks like, what questions to ask, and whether the resulting safety evidence is credible.
Defence and Aerospace Professionals
Mil-Std-882E is widely associated with defence system safety.
If you work on defence acquisition, development, integration, modification or sustainment programmes, this course provides a comprehensive foundation in the standard’s hazard-analysis framework.
What Makes This Course Different?
One Complete Programme
Rather than taking isolated courses on individual hazard-analysis techniques, you can learn how the full Task 201–210 suite fits together.
Practical System Safety
The emphasis is on understanding how to perform the analyses, not simply reading the standard.
Lifecycle Perspective
The analyses are considered in the context of the system lifecycle and the decisions they are intended to support.
Tailoring
Not every system needs exactly the same safety programme.
Learn how to tailor your assessment activities rather than applying a one-size-fits-all process.
Safety Engineering Thinking
Develop the ability to ask the right questions about hazards, causes, consequences, controls, requirements and evidence.
What You Get
Your enrolment provides access to:
69 lessons
A comprehensive programme covering the system safety process and Tasks 201–210.
10.5 hours of video
More than ten hours of structured instruction that you can work through at your own pace.
Course transcripts
Use transcripts to review and search the material.
Course slides
Downloadable supporting material for reference and revision.
Quizzes
Knowledge checks to reinforce your understanding.
Free previews
Preview lessons from each major section before enrolling. (The Safety Artisan)
Course Structure
Section 1
The System Safety Process
Understand the overall Mil-Std-882E system safety process.
Section 2
Tailoring Your System Safety Assessment Programme
Determine how to structure an assessment programme appropriate to your system.
Section 3
Preliminary Hazard Identification — Task 201
Identify the initial hazard set.
Section 4
Preliminary Hazard Analysis — Task 202
Analyse hazards and establish the foundations for risk control.
Section 5
System Requirements Hazard Analysis — Task 203
Examine requirements from a system safety perspective.
Section 6
Subsystem Hazard Analysis — Task 204
Analyse subsystem-level hazards and controls.
Section 7
System Hazard Analysis — Task 205
Analyse hazards at the integrated system level.
Section 8
Operating and Support Hazard Analysis — Task 206
Analyse hazards associated with operation and support.
Section 9
Health Hazard Analysis — Task 207
Assess hazards affecting personnel health.
Section 10
Functional Hazard Analysis — Task 208
Analyse hazardous consequences of functional failures and abnormal behaviour.
Section 11
System-of-Systems Hazard Analysis — Task 209
Analyse interactions between systems within a larger capability.
Section 12
Environmental Hazard Analysis — Task 210
Assess hazards associated with environmental conditions.
The current course contains all of these sections and associated lesson resources. (The Safety Artisan)
From a List of Hazards to a Defensible Safety Assessment
A safety assessment should answer more than:
“What are the hazards?”
It should help answer:
What can go wrong?
Why can it go wrong?
What are the consequences?
What controls prevent or mitigate the hazard?
How do we know those controls are effective?
What requirements implement the controls?
What evidence demonstrates that the controls have been implemented?
What risk remains?
This is the thinking that turns hazard analysis into system safety engineering.
Learn From More Than 30 Years of Safety-Critical Engineering
The Safety Artisan was created to make practical system safety and safety engineering knowledge accessible to engineers and professionals.
The training draws on more than 30 years of experience working with safety-critical systems across aerospace, defence and other complex engineering environments.
The focus is deliberately practical:
Understand the problem.
Apply the engineering method.
Produce useful safety evidence.
Your Investment
System Safety Assessment
$995
69 lessons · 10.5 hours of video · Self-paced online training
Build the knowledge you need to design and execute a comprehensive system safety assessment programme.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course only for defence engineers?
No.
Although the course is based on the Mil-Std-882E framework, the underlying system safety principles and hazard-analysis techniques can be applied to many types of complex and safety-critical systems.
Do I need to be an experienced safety engineer?
No.
The course is designed to provide a structured progression from the overall system safety process through the individual analyses.
A basic understanding of systems engineering and engineering risk will be useful.
Does the course cover all Mil-Std-882E Tasks 201–210?
Yes.
The current course covers the system safety process and Tasks 201 through 210, including Preliminary Hazard Identification, Preliminary Hazard Analysis, System Requirements Hazard Analysis, Subsystem Hazard Analysis, System Hazard Analysis, Operating and Support Hazard Analysis, Health Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Analysis, System-of-Systems Hazard Analysis and Environmental Hazard Analysis. (The Safety Artisan)
Does the course teach me how to use a particular software tool?
The focus is on system safety engineering methods and analysis, rather than training in a particular software package.
The principles can therefore be applied using the tools and processes used by your organisation.
Is this a clause-by-clause explanation of Mil-Std-882E?
No.
The objective is to help you understand and apply the system safety process and associated analyses, rather than simply memorising the wording of the standard.
Can I work through the course at my own pace?
Yes.
The course is delivered online and is designed for self-paced learning.
You can work through the lessons when it suits you and revisit material as required.
How much material is included?
The course currently contains 69 lessons and approximately 10.5 hours of video content, together with supporting transcripts, slides and quizzes. (The Safety Artisan)
Ready to Build Your System Safety Assessment Skills?
You don’t need another collection of disconnected hazard-analysis techniques.
You need to understand how the analyses fit together into a system safety programme.
System Safety Assessment gives you a structured path through the complete Mil-Std-882E Task 201–210 analysis suite.
Learn the process.
Master the analyses.
Build a defensible safety assessment.
$995
69 lessons · 10.5 hours of video · Self-paced online training
Don’t Just Identify Hazards.
Learn How to Engineer Safety.