A Comprehensive Hazard Analysis Technique for Safety-Critical Automotive Systems

Hazard analysis plays an important role in the development of safety-critical systems. Hazard analysis techniques have been used in the development of automotive systems become more sophisticated in functionality, design, and applied technology, the need for a more comprehensive hazard analysis approach has arisen. In this paper, we describe a comprehensive hazard analysis approach for system safety programs. This comprehensive approach involves applying a number of hazard analysis techniques and then integrating their results. This comprehensive approach attempts to overcome the narrower scope of individual techniques while obtaining the benefits of all of them.