What happens if there is an approved system that fails and results in a fatality?
Whether one follows the PBC or another code, there is always recourse in the event of a failure of any kind. In the case of the PBC, one would examine the risk assessment contained in the Code Compliance Document and see if the issue was covered and, if not, why it was not covered. The risk assessment process is very proactive in nature in that it uncovers hazards which might not be obvious by following a prescriptive type of code. The process forces one to be very conservative to assess all events, including residual risks which might occur as a result of mitigating something else. As a result, the chances of something escaping through a properly conducted risk assessment are very small.
