The `millennium bug`: the health and safety implications
The `millennium bug`: the health and safety implications
- 1998
- Health & Safety at Work 5(10) June 1998, 78-79(2) .
Considers the year 2000 problem in the context of a report commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive, "Safety and the year 2000". Explains the problem and the implications for the safe operation of a process or machine where the information held on a system is both time or date-dependent. Comments on the legal implications of ignoring the risk posed by the problem, covered in "Safety-related and safety-critical systems; potential risks and legal liabilities arising from the year 2000 problem".
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
DATE DEPENDENT
EMPLOYEES
EMPLOYERS
HEALTH & SAFETY
HSE
LEGAL LIABILITIES
MAJOR HAZARD SITES
MILLENNIUM BUG
PUBLIC
REMEDIAL PROGRAMME
RISK ASSESSMENT
TIME DEPENDENT
YEAR 2000
Considers the year 2000 problem in the context of a report commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive, "Safety and the year 2000". Explains the problem and the implications for the safe operation of a process or machine where the information held on a system is both time or date-dependent. Comments on the legal implications of ignoring the risk posed by the problem, covered in "Safety-related and safety-critical systems; potential risks and legal liabilities arising from the year 2000 problem".
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
DATE DEPENDENT
EMPLOYEES
EMPLOYERS
HEALTH & SAFETY
HSE
LEGAL LIABILITIES
MAJOR HAZARD SITES
MILLENNIUM BUG
PUBLIC
REMEDIAL PROGRAMME
RISK ASSESSMENT
TIME DEPENDENT
YEAR 2000