Air Force System Safety Handbook - System Safety Society

waiver was generally required for it to be specified by a
military program manager. A contractor could freely use the
standard without any waivers. Once MIL-STD-882D was
published as a DoD Standard Practice in February 2000, its
use did not require any waivers.
The evolution of the system safety program can best be summarized
by a consistent increase of scope, coupled with an
expanding number of system requirements. The principles
defined earlier remained intact through this evolution, but the
maturing of the system safety concept resulted in a very
complicated system of engineering analyses, coupled with
contractually defined management requirements. A complete
summary of system safety principles, objectives, and
requirements is presented in the following figures along with
the initial source in which they were referenced.
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