3 Introduction to Safety
3.1 Need for Safety and Engineering Safety Goals
The desire to be safe and secure has always been a very important concern to humans. For example, early humans took appropriate precautions for safeguarding against natural hazards around them. Moreover, in 2000 B.C., Hammurabi, an ancient Babylonian ruler, developed a code referred to as the Code of Hammurabi. The code included clauses on items such as monetary damages against people who caused injury to others and allowable fees for involved physicians [1, 2].
Nowadays, safety has become a very important issue because each year, a large number of people die and get seriously injured due to workplace-related and other accidents. For example, ...
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