Safety Systems

Roles: operator, failsafe, trigger, monitor, alarm, threshold

Mechanisms designed to prevent harm by detecting dangerous conditions and activating protective responses. As a source domain, safety systems provide vocabulary for software reliability patterns: watchdogs, circuit breakers, health checks, dead man’s switches. The frame centers on the relationship between monitoring, detection, and automated response — the assumption that safety requires active vigilance rather than passive protection.

As Source Frame (1)

• Dead Man's Switch → distributed-systems, information-security