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The `millennium bug`: the health and safety implications

Language: English Series: Health & Safety at Work ; 5(10) June 1998, 78-79(2)Publication details: 1998Subject(s): Summary: 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".

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".