Safety and Forensic Sciences

[Safety Codes]"Safe" is a relative term that has many bases for comparison. Codification and regulation are social value-system measures of how safe a product or process needs to be, and these measures often change with time. "State-of-the-art" and "custom and practice" help establish consistency and evolution in products and processes. Accident frequency and distribution help rank and identify trends for safety. The application of human factors also allows for the evaluation and prediction of how users may use, misuse and appreciate equipment response and operation. Safety relies on more than physical guarding, and can include elements of training, vigilance and practice.

[Forensic Science]"Forensic science" often involves documentation and application of engineering science and physical principles to provide evidence of events or conditions. These methods try to answer the questions of how, why and when, and may be applied to situations where only technical methods can establish the logical sequence of events based on evidence. Forensic tools may include accident reconstruction, evaluation of time sequences, physical and computer simulations, and dimensional analysis.

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