1.1 General
This European Standard defines the safety programme and the technical safety requirements that are implemented
in order to comply with the safety policy as defined in ISO 14300-2. It is intended to protect flight and ground
personnel, the launch vehicle, associated payloads, ground support equipment, the general public, public and
private property, and the environment from hazards associated with space systems. Launch site operations are
described by ISO 14620-2.
The safety policy is applied by implementing a system safety programme, supported by risk assessment, which can
be summarized as follows:
a) hazardous characteristics (system and environmental hazards) and functions with potentially hazardous failure
effects are identified and progressively evaluated by iteratively performing systematic safety analyses;
b) the potential hazardous consequences associated with the system characteristics and functional failures are
subjected to a hazard reduction sequence whereby:
1) hazards are eliminated from the system design and operations;
2) hazards are minimized;
3) hazard controls are applied and verified.
c) the risks that remain after the application of a hazard elimination and reduction process are progressively
assessed and subjected to risk assessment, in order to:
1) show compliance with safety targets;
2) support design trades;
3) identify and rank risk contributors;
4) support apportionment of project resources for risk reduction;
5) assess risk reduction progress;
6) support the safety and project decision-making process (e.g. waiver approval, residual risk
acceptance).
d) the adequacy of the hazard and risk control measures applied are formally verified in order to support safety
validation and risk acceptance;
e) safety compliance is assessed by the project and safety approval obtained from the relevant authorities.
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1.2 Field of application
This European Standard is applicable to all space projects where during any project phase there exists the
potential for hazards to personnel or the general public, space flight systems, ground support equipment, facilities,
public or private property, or the environment.
The imposition of these requirements on the project suppliers activities requires that the customers project product
assurance and safety organization also respond to these requirements in a manner which is commensurate with
the projects safety criticality.
1.3 Tailoring
When viewed from the perspective of a specific programme or project context, the requirements defined in this
European Standard should be tailored to match the genuine requirements of a particular profile and circumstances
of a programme or project.
NOTE Tailoring is the process by which individual requirements of specifications, standards and related documents are
evaluated, and made applicable to a specific programme or project by selection, and in some exceptional cases, modification of
existing or addition of new requirements.
Diese Norm ist anwendbar für alle europäischen Raumfahrtprojekte in Fällen, bei denen während einer beliebigen Projektphase ein Risikopotential für das beteiligte Personal oder die allgemeine Öffentlichkeit, sowie für Raumflugsysteme, Bodenversorgungsausrüstungen, Anlagen, öffentliches oder privates Eigentum oder die Umwelt besteht. Die spezifische Anwendbarkeit des Sicherheitsprogrammes und die technischen Erfordernisse, die in dieser Norm sowie in den referenzierten Normen definiert sind, werden durch den Kunden gemäß der Anforderungen an die Projektsicherheit und der jeweiligen Anwendung festgelegt.