Safety

This characteristic represents the degree to which a product under defined conditions to avoid a state in which human life, health, property, or the environment is endangered. This characteristic is composed of the following sub-characteristics:

Operational constraint

Degree to which a product or system constrains its operation to within safe parameters or states when encountering operational hazard.

Risk identification

Degree to which a product can identify a course of events or operations that can expose life, property or environment to unacceptable risk.

Fail safe

Degree to which a product can automatically place itself in a safe operating mode, or to revert to a safe condition in the event of a failure.

Hazard warning

Degree to which a product or system provides warnings of unacceptable risks to operations or internal controls so that they can react in sufficient time to sustain safe operations.

Safe integration

Degree to which a product can maintain safety during and after integration with one or more components.