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The world demands ever-increasing safety. That demand, however, varies from one system to another as its life-cycle progresses. The pressure on safety often reaches its maximum at the end of the cycle, which is paradoxically the time when the system more or less reaches its apogee in terms of the level of safety.
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Faster-better-cheaper (FBC), an expression from NASA which made it into a slogan before the second space shuttle accident.
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Summary and analysis of the accident available on http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/HistoricFires/InfrastructuralFires/mont.htm.
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http://www.fiafoundation.org/publications/Documents/road_safety_in_france.pdf. This distortion, which was true during the period referred to, was fortunately reduced when road safety became a major presidential issue following the re-election of President Chirac.
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Kodak Teeters on the Brink, Wall Street Journal, January 2012, 4, accessed at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140841495542810.html.
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Written reason of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
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For example, read: MacQueen [9].
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Amalberti, R. (2013). The Demand for Safety and Its Paradoxes. In: Navigating Safety. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6549-8_1
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