Composite structures : safety management This book extends the focus to all the entities that participate in the successful quest for safety and demonstrates how Design Manufacturing Maintenance (inspection) Operation Requirements (regulations) all are part of successful safe innovation and necessary to assure Safe flight thru the life of the vehicle. It addresses the notion that safety is a function of time and a vigilant risk management is only successful if it includes all participating entities. It is a companion to the authors first volume Composite Structure: Design Safety and Innovation published by Elsevier in June 2005. The book eliminates an unacceptable gap in the world of safety represents a new approach to designing manufacturing maintaining operating and regulating composite airplane structures for professionals in the aerospace structural development arena whether in indusrty academia or government