Mechanical Engineering: English Assignments on Accident Causation

This document contains two discussions addressing safety and accident causation within a mechanical engineering context. Discussion 1 explores safety system reliability, particularly single-point failure, and its application in the transport industry, referencing Dell's principles. It examines how well these principles are applied in various operations and suggests methods for maintaining reliability through design, testing, and random failure considerations. Discussion 2 focuses on the link between hazards and energy types in understanding accident causation. It emphasizes the importance of controlling energy transfer to prevent accidents, referencing William Harden's work and highlighting various types of energy and exposures that contribute to accidents. The document provides references to support the discussions.

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Discussion 1
Single point failure is just one of those many tools applicable for the system redesign
or modification of the Cameron Company (Porcu et al. 2020). It is responsible for giving
reliability for system redesign or modification process. It is very much useful for preventing
the accidents. For maintaining adequate reliability and sustainability, Cameron Company can
follow the below mentioned steps:
 Maintaining the independence on these systems from various effects of the postulated
initiating events.
 Reducing the chance of the failure of various parts of their transport systems by
adopting the excellent quality and engineering practices for performing the design,
construction, operation and maintenance of those systems.
 Systems must be designed in such a manner that they can tackle the failures without
the presence of safety functions.
After implementation, Cameron Company can perform the testing operation for
detecting the undetected failures at the time of design (Dmitrieva et al. 2020). The main
purpose of performing this testing is to classify whether the failure of the system is active or
passive. They can identify the active failures with the help of some online testing and
monitoring of the systems. In many cases, the performance of the online tests needs a
modification of the engaged safety group. Testing of the passive components is usually
served by some in-service methods.
Cameron Company can apply random failure considerations. It is applied active as
well as passive devices of their transports (Hegeman, Brookhuis and Hoogendoorn 2020). In
this case, the failure is arbitrarily assumed and the principle is applied to every safety systems

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having various exceptional cases. According to single failure, a single random failure shall be
assumed for every safety group involved in the transport redesign of the company (Walta et
al. 2020). The term safety group means that the assembly of all the gadgets which can
perform all the necessary actions for PIE. It has some limitation that can be specified with
respect to the design. It highlights that it is not only related to the front line system but also
associated with the protection and safety systems.
Discussion 2
This link helps to explain injury causation and calculating energy hazards and control
methods. Strategies can be designed which are primitive and limiting with respect to the
transfer of the energy. It helps to control and prevent of building of energy which is quite
injurious (Walta et al. 2020). It is able to generate an environment that is not at all injurious
for generating the energy. It also helps for the production of the counteractive measures for
the injurious formation of energy. In this particular case, energy exchange is considered as
the injury agent (van der Heijden and Marchau 2020). This injury could be mechanical,
electrical, chemical and many others. It helps to understand the procedure of causing the
accident. According to William Harden (19070), transfer or release is the main reason for the
accident causation (Porcu et al. 2020). Accidents and injury are caused because of the transfer
or release of the energy. This link helps to understand the destructive energies for accident
causation.
This link is useful to highlight the equipments that are damaged through the change of
the energy. It also indicates that in every change in the energy there is a source, path and
receiver. It also helps to determine the energy hazards for accident causation. This link helps
to highlight that, energy is totally related to the cutting, dividing and planning of accident
causation (Hegeman, Brookhuis and Hoogendoorn 2020). It also helps to highlights the

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energy that are related to the pressing and compression of energy. It indicates the conversion
of kinetic to potential energy. With the help of this link, it is possible tom understand the
energy exposition from a particular body because excessive stress (Dmitrieva et al. 2020).
This link is able to give a clear idea regarding various exposures of accident causations such
as chemical exposures (such as solvents, clearing agents and many others), physical
exposures (such as noise, radiation and many others), physiological exposures (heavy loads,
repetitive work and many others) and biological exposures (such as virus, bacteria, flour and
animal blood). It helps to give a clear idea regarding accident causation.

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Walta, L., Van Driel, C.J.G., Krikke, R.H. and van Arem, B., 2020. Examination of the
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