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About The Safety Artisan - Safety Engineering and Risk Management Expert

About The Safety Artisan

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Hi, everyone, and welcome to The Safety Artisan. I'm Simon, and I just wanted to share with you briefly why I started this enterprise. I've had a career in safety, engineering, and safety consulting for over 25 years now. And in that time, I've seen customers make one of two mistakes quite often. First of all, I've seen customers not do some things that they should have been doing. This was usually because they just were ignorant of what their legal obligations were.

And I guess that's a fairly obvious mistake. That's what you would expect me to say. But more often, I've seen customers do too much to try and achieve safety, which is surprising! I've seen people waste a lot of time, energy, and money doing things that just didn't make a difference. Sometimes it actually got in the way of doing good safety work.

And I think the reasons for those mistakes are, first of all, ignorance.

Secondly, not knowing precisely what safety is and therefore not being able to work out how to get there. That's why I started The Safety Artisan. I wanted to equip people with the knowledge of what safety really is and the tools to get there efficiently. To neither do too much nor too little. We want Safety, Just Right.

Simon Di Nucci, CPEng, FIEAust, NERNational Engineering RegisterMy Certified Skills

I have 25+ years of experience in safety engineering and consultancy. I've worked on aircraft, ships, submarines, air-traffic management systems, trains, and software. As an engineer and consultant, I've served on tiny projects and some of the biggest programs in the world.

I have worked in the UK and Australia, and on several projects, I've introduced American-made systems to both countries. It has been my privilege to teach safety to hundreds of people in the classroom. And I've presented on safety topics at several international conferences. See my full resume/CV here.

Our Mission and Values

artisan/ˈɑːtɪzan,ɑːtɪˈzan/Learn to pronounce noun

A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. “street markets where local artisans display handwoven textiles, painted ceramics, and leather goods”.

When I was choosing a name for my business, I thought of quite a lot of alternatives. I settled on The Safety Artisan for three reasons. First, I liked the meaning of the word. An individual pursuing their craft and trying to do it to the very best of their abilities.

Second, I liked the application. I’ve worked on a lot of very large, even multi-billion-dollar projects; but we’re still knowledge workers. We’re still individuals who must be competent to deliver good results for people.

And third, I liked the idea. Imagine a cottage industry of artisans working at home, delivering goods and services that other people can use wherever they are. Right now, you might be home or you might be on your mobile phone listening to this.

So, I liked all three of those things. I thought, yes, that’s what I’m about. That’s what I believe in and want to do. Does that sound good to you, too? Then check out The Safety Artisan's Topics, where I provide #safety #engineering #training.

Simon Di Nucci
https://www.safetyartisan.com/about/

Topics
Here are the main topics taught by The Safety Artisan. Each page will take you to several teaching videos and other resources. Go to the Connect page to see how you can get updates every time a video or resource is added.

Start Here

Start here if you are new to safety! The posts featured on this page introduce basic safety topics, such as definitions and fundamental safety concepts. You can also start here if you know how to do safety in one industry and want to understand how it's done in another. Similarly, you might be familiar with safety practices in one country but want to know how things are done elsewhere.

Topics: System Safety Assessment

In this series of posts, we take you through a suite of safety analysis tasks. They are designed to deal with a complex system, but can be simplified (known as ‘tailoring’). We start with Preliminary Hazard Identification and work through detailed analyses, each with a different point of view of the system.

Topics: Work Health and Safety

Australian Work Health & Safety law, or WHS, addresses both design and workplace, or occupational, safety.  It imposes duties upon designers, manufacturers, and importers of plant, structures, and substances.

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Work Health and Safety
Australian Work Health & Safety law, or WHS, addresses both safe design and workplace (occupational) safety.  It imposes duties upon designers, manufacturers, importers, and suppliers of plant, structures, and substances.

The four-lesson discount bundle, including Safe Design, is available here at a Discount!

WHS Law in Practice

WHS legislation is powerful and elegant, and it yields a lot of useful content, whether you are in an Australian jurisdiction or not. It is based on the UK’s approach to health and safety at work, but it has incorporated lessons learned from four decades of experience there.

In 2011, Safe Work Australia developed the model work health and safety (WHS) laws to be implemented across Australia. To become legally binding the Commonwealth, states and territories must separately implement them as their own laws. Safe Work Australia is responsible for maintaining the model WHS laws, but we don’t regulate or enforce them.Safe Work Australia

However, Australia’s federal system complicates the application of our laws. The Safety Artisan will attempt to cut through this complexity and explain the core concepts needed for practical success.

WHS Codes of Practice

Safe Work Australia notes that:

Model Codes of Practice are practical guides to achieving the standards of health and safety required under the model WHS Act and Regulations.Safe Work Australia

They also go on to say:

An approved code of practice applies to anyone who has a duty of care in the circumstances described in the code. In most cases, following an approved code of practice would achieve compliance with the health and safety duties in a jurisdiction’s WHS Act and Regulations.

Like regulations, codes of practice deal with particular issues and do not cover all hazards or risks that may arise. Health and safety duties require you to consider all risks associated with work, not only those risks that regulations and codes of practice exist for.

While approved codes of practice are not law, they are admissible in court proceedings. Courts may regard an approved code of practice as evidence of what is known about a hazard, risk or control and may rely on the relevant code to determine what is reasonably practicable in the circumstances.

We ignore these words at our peril!

Head back to the Topics Page for more safety training.

Simon Di Nucci
https://www.safetyartisan.com/work-health-and-safety/

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The Safety Artisan gives you:

1. The flexibility that enables you to work and study2. Easy access to recorded classes to watch later3. Dynamic delivery based on practical experience

Learn safety engineering with me: a current industry professional with 25 years of experience.

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The Safety Artisan: Latest Articles

Free Lessons

Preliminary Hazard Identification & Analysis Guide

System Safety Concepts & Principles

Risk Management 101

Safety Analysis Lessons

System Safety Assessment (Mil-Std-882E) Course

Foundations of System Safety Course

Hazard Identification Lesson

Software/Safety Lessons

Principles of Safe Software Course

Identify & Analyze Functional Hazards Course

My CISSP Exam Journey Lesson

Testimonials

The way you teach this subject makes it comprehensible and part of an integral whole. It seems like your approach is rare (and valuable) in the world of System Safety.Thomas AnthonyDirector, Aviation Safety and Security ProgramViterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California

Understanding safety law can be difficult and, at times, confronting.  Thankfully, Simon has a knack of bringing clarity to complex legal requirements, using real work examples to help understanding.  I highly recommend Simon to any director or manager wanting to understand their legal obligations and ensure a safe workplace.Jonathan Carroll, Senior Leadership, Pacific National

Valuable information, Clear explanations, Engaging delivery, Helpful practice activities, Accurate course description, Knowledgeable instructor.Manuel Louie B. Santos, reviewing “Risk Management 101”

Explanation about the military standard was very interesting, because for the first time somebody talked about possible disadvantages.Henri Van Buren, reviewing “System Safety Risk Analysis Programs”

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200+ Reviews, scoring:

- Principles of Software Safety Standards (4.48 out of 5.00);

- How to Design a System Safety Program (4.08 out of 5.00);

- How to Prepare for the CISSP Exam (4.61 out of 5.00); and

- Risk Management 101 (4.39 out of 5.00).

Why Safety Engineering Training?

The world needs safety engineers - a lot of them. Everything we use needs to be designed, manufactured, supplied, transported, and so on, and we need to do that without causing harm.

So, there’s a lot of need for safety engineering training. Want a (well-paid) career as a safety engineer? Need to do a safety-engineering-related task or project?  Do you need to understand what your team is doing? Maybe you need to ask - or answer - the right questions in an interview.

There’s a lot of need for safety engineering skills, but they are difficult to get because training places are quite limited. Qualifications are expensive and take a long time to acquire.

I hope that by putting these lessons online, you’ll find them helpful. Who am I? Learn more.

It’s about Countering Fear – and Increasing Confidence

I decided to launch this site because I think there is a lot of fear around safety.  People worry about getting it wrong, and therefore sometimes that can result in poor behaviors or poor performance. They shy away from doing anything about safety rather than just doing what they can.

This is a shame because safety is often just structured common sense.

It’s an engineering discipline like any other. Except that we need to involve people other than engineers. We need to involve operators, maintainers, and regulators. We need to involve end-users. So it’s quite a social activity as well, which I’m afraid can be a challenge for some of us engineers!  (I’m as guilty of that as anybody else.) Nevertheless, there’s a lot we can do, and it isn’t as difficult as we think it is.

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Blog Articles
Safety Engineering and Risk Management Blog Articles - The Safety Artisan

Start here with the Blog! The posts featured on this page introduce safety basics, such as definitions and fundamental safety concepts. They also discuss related topics.

You can also start here if you know how to do safety in one industry and want to understand how it's done in another. Similarly, you might be familiar with safety practices in one country but want to know how things are done elsewhere.

Latest Articles

Blog Articles: Selected Highlights

System Safety Concepts

The Safety Artisan equips you with System Safety Concepts. We look at the basic concepts of safety, risk and hazard in order to understand how to assess and manage them. Exploring these fundamental topics provides the foundations for all other safety topics, but it doesn't have to be complex. The basics are simple, but they need to be thoroughly understood and practised consistently to achieve success. This video explains the issues and discusses how to achieve that success.From the Lesson Description

What does 'Safe' really mean? Find out Here.

System Safety Principles

... I discuss the Principles of System Safety, as set out by the US Federal Aviation Authority in their System Safety Handbook.  Although this was published in 2000, the principles still hold good (mostly) and are worth discussing.  I comment on those topics where modern practice has moved on, and those jurisdictions where the US approach does not sit well.From the Lesson Description

Human Factors

In this 40-minute video, I'm joined by a friend, colleague and Human Factors specialist, Peter Benda. Peter has 23 years of experience in applying Human Factors to large projects in all kinds of domains. In this session we look at some fundamentals: what does Human Factors engineering aim to achieve? Why do it? And what sort of tools and techniques are useful? As this is The Safety Artisan, we also discuss some real-world examples of how Human Factors can contribute to accidents or help to prevent them.From the Lesson Description

Catch the discussion Here.

Functional Safety

Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protection operating correctly in response to its inputs or failure in a predictable manner (fail-safe). The automatic protection system should be designed to properly handle likely human errors, systematic errors, hardware failures and operational/environmental stress.Wikipedia

For a brief introduction to Functional Safety Click Here.

Head back to the Topics Page for more safety training.

Simon Di Nucci
https://www.safetyartisan.com/start-here-with-the-blog/

System Safety Assessment
In this System Safety Assessment course, I will take you through a suite of safety analysis tasks. They are designed to deal with a complex system, but can be simplified (known as 'tailoring'). I start with Preliminary Hazard Identification and work through detailed analyses, each with a different point of view of the system.

Each lesson can be purchased individually, but there are discounts for the whole course here.

System Safety

The system safety concept calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, analysis of hazards and application of remedial controls using a systems-based approachHarold E. Roland; Brian Moriarty (1990). System Safety Engineering and Management.

System Safety Engineering

Every approach to safety has a context that needs to be understood to get the best results. I have used the Tasks from a system safety engineering standard called Military-Standard-882E, or Mil-Std-882E, for short. This has been around for a long time and is very widely used. It was developed for use on US military systems, but it has found its way, sometimes in disguise, into many other programs around the world.

However, any safety analysis standard can be applied blindly – it is not a substitute for competent decision-making. So, I explain the limitations with each Task and how to overcome them.

Safety Assessment

A safety assessment is a comprehensive and systematic investigation and analysis of all aspects of risks to health and safety associated with major incidents that may potentially occur in the course of operation of the major hazard facility...Guide for Major Hazard Facilities: Safety Assessment, Safe Work Australia, 2012

Safety Assessment

Head back to the Topics Page for more safety training.

Simon Di Nucci
https://www.safetyartisan.com/safety-analysis/

SSRAP: Start the Course
This post, 'SSRAP: Start the Course', gives an overview of System Safety Risk Assessment Programs. It describes the Learning Objectives of the Course and its five modules. We're going to learn how to:

- Describe fundamental risk concepts.

- Explain what a Systems Safety Approach to Risk is.

- Define within that System Safety Approach, what a Risk Analysis Program is.

- List Hazard Analysis Tasks that make up a program.

- Select tasks to meet our needs.

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Start of the Course: Highlights

SSRAP: Start of the Course - Transcript

Welcome to this course on System Safety Risk Analysis Programs. It’s a five-part course for beginners and practitioners. It will also benefit a wider range of people.

Learning Objectives

In this course, we will learn how to do several things. First of all, we're going to learn how to describe fundamental risk concepts. We're going to explain what a Systems Safety Approach to Risk is and what it does. We will define within that System Safety Approach, what a Risk Analysis Program is. We're going to be able to list Hazard Analysis Tasks that make up a program. We'll be able to select tasks to meet our needs.

At the end of this task, we should be able to design a tailored Risk Analysis Program for any application. And also, we're going to learn how to get some more information resources on how to do that.

Topics for this Course

So how is that going to work? Well. In five modules. In Module One, we're going to go over some risk basics. The reason for this is to make sure we've got a common understanding.

In Module Two, we're going to look at Systems Safety Risk Analysis. What it is, what it does, and the benefits it delivers.

In Module Three, we will look at a particular System Safety Program Standard. We will understand what it was designed to do and learn what it's good and not so good at.

In Module Four, we're going to take all the previous knowledge from Modules One to Three and put it together. We will use that information to design a Risk Analysis Program. This information can also help design any number of programs depending on what we want to do.

And then finally, in Module Five, we'll look at where to get more resources to take us deeper to the next level...

This is SSRAP: Start of the Course

This is Module 1 from the System Safety Risk Assessment Program (SSRAP) Course. Risk Analysis Programs – Design a System Safety Program for any system in any application.

The full course comprises 15 lessons and 1.5 hours of video content, plus resources. It's on pre-sale at HALF PRICE until September 1st, 2024. Check out all the free preview videos here and order using the coupon “Pre-order-Half-Price-SSRAP”. But don't leave it too long because there are only 100 half-price courses available!

Meet the Author

Learn safety engineering with me, an industry professional with 25 years of experience, I have:

•Worked on aircraft, ships, submarines, ATMS, trains, and software;

•Tiny programs to some of the biggest (Eurofighter, Future Submarine);

•In the UK and Australia, on US and European programs;

•Taught safety to hundreds of people in the classroom, and thousands online;

•Presented on safety topics at several international conferences.
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