[SystemSafety] words you cannot use at GM

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

This would seem to be one of the disadvantages of not taking IEC/ISO standards seriously. In European arbitration, the claim "the applicable international standard says...." is mostly taken very seriously by the arbitrators, I understand.

Not that the standards are perfect, or even wonderful..... :-) But they do tend to say " there is no such thing as zero risk". Indeed, in IEC 61511 you're only "allowed" to assume that an otherwise-unqualified process control system has a failure rate of 1 in 10 ophours or worse.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, University of Bielefeld and Causalis Limited

> On 21 May 2014, at 00:02, Eric Scharpf <EScharpf at exida.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately this is not surprising. I have dealt with other US companies which have indicated that any statement acknowledging a non-zero risk from their equipment invites legal damages in potential product liability lawsuits.
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