Risks of this sort are usually managed with the methods and tools of safety engineering.

A knowledge of the literature, the standards and custom in a field is a critical part of safety engineering.

This can be achieved by promoting safety culture and employing safety engineering.

Ford executives recently appointed the company's first senior vice president of sustainability, environment, and safety engineering.

Use of methods that allow early detection of possible failures, in safety engineering, are integrated into the design process.

Some of the techniques used, such as fault tree analysis, are derived from safety engineering.

The primary goal of safety engineering is to manage risk, eliminating or reducing it to acceptable levels.

Ideally, safety engineering starts during the early design of a system.

Prior to strong government safety regulation Volvo had been in the forefront of safety engineering.

Also see safety engineering for a discussion of the procedures used to design safe systems.