Similar problems arise in safety engineering, for nuclear power stations in flood control, and in the ongoing task of monitoring and predicting climate change.

She joined as a process engineer working on materials and corrosion issues, but soon moved to safety engineering.

Some of the techniques used, such as fault tree analysis, are derived from safety engineering.

Furthermore, safety engineering and reliability engineering may even have contradicting requirements.

Ideally, safety engineering starts during the early design of a system.