Application of the FMEA method for the assessment of technical safety levels

Abstract

The responsibility for ensuring technical safety rests in part with technical equipment designers. Their job is to choose solutions that will remain effective throughout the usable life of relevant equipment. The solutions they select must ensure the required safety levels while complying with mandatory laws and regulations. Rather than specifying what the right solutions are, laws only indicate the required level of safety, which needs to be checked using specific risk assessment methods that are appropriate for the solutions in place. The use of the FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to identify irregularities helped define advisable improvements that will enable organizations to achieve the required safety level. These can be viewed as design guidelines for ensuring the proper operation of a device in the workplace free of hazards to the labor force. The paper analyzed the impact of the construction measures applied to reduce the use risk. The applied solutions were evaluated and the level of tolerated risk was recognized as a determinant of ensuring the possibility of safe work performance.