1. Designsafe studies in Biomedical and Mechanical EngineeringBy
Sebastien A. Daleyden
Vincent M. Goussen
Advisors:
Dr Paul King & Bruce Main

2. Designsafe studies in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering
Project proposal
About safety
Completed work
Current work
Next steps

3. Safety through design, with the use of Designsafe
Project proposal
Safety through design, with the use of Designsafe
Objective 1:
1. Benchmarking study comparing Europe and the US in safety
2. Evaluating designsafe for its suitability to the European market,
3. Translation of designsafe to European language(s)
Objective 2:
Helping students of BME 273 and ME 243 on safety issues

4. Importance of safety in design
Unintentional injuries
Cost of $399 billion a year only in the USA;
Fifth leading cause of death;
Due to interaction between machines and their environment and the way people live and work
Engineers should more think about the safety of the users...

5. Importance of safety in design
The main reasons why we should more care about safety are:
Time
Costs
Competition
International Influences
Capturing knowledge
Product liability

6. Hazard analysis: What is it?
Objectives:
Tool for engineers and safety practitioners to
identify possible hazards,
provide an evaluation of the risks,
prompt alternative design solutions to mitigate or control the risks to an acceptable level.

7. Hazard analysis: What is it?
Hazard: Potentially dangerous condition, which is triggered by an event, called the cause of the hazard.
Risk: hazard that is associated with a severity and a probability of occurrence.

8. Hazard analysis: What is it?
Hazard analysis: Identify all possible hazards potentially created by a product, process or application.
Risk assessment: It is the next step after the collection of potential hazards. Risk in this context is the probability and severity of the hazard becoming reality.

9. An useful engineers’ tool: Designsafe
dse has developed a fast, easy-to-use tool for engineers and safety professionals to incorporate safety through design by:
identifying hazards
prompting engineers to think about hazards which they otherwise might overlook
conducting a risk assessment for identified hazards
reducing risks in a structured method
preventing accidents and reducing liability

10. Work completed
Built a background on safety (hazard analysis & risk assessment, CE norms…)
Learnt the use of Designsafe
Prepared a course on hazard analysis and on Designsafe for the ME 243
Assisted to all the first oral presentations of BME class

11. Benchmarking : Current work
researches on the internet : competitors, safety organizations
studying the most interesting sites
downloading and trying demos of competitors

12. Future work
Keep on the benchmarking
Meeting with Bruce Main
Involving in students’ projects

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