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Topic 31: Prescriptive case, Safety case and the future of Legislation 

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Topic 26: The dangers associated with young and inexperienced workers in the workplace 

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Topic 10: ONGC Mumbai High Accident (July 27, 2005 @ West Coast of India) (2 posts)

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Topic 28: Your view on iMechanica Safety Engineering and Risk Management Debate node/13475#comment-20881 

A system with a single point of failure is usually made more reliable by the concept of redundancy. Redundant members are added in structural members to reduce the likelihood of failure.

This has an effect in increasing the safety, functionality and reliability of the structure. Redundancy in Engineering is the duplication of critical components or functions of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe. This is highly applicable in many critical systems.