Cost Analysis of Unsafe Products

• Safety in a product comes at no cost
• Unsafe products do not acquire Secondary Costs to the producer beyond the Primary Costs
• Any improvement in safety as it relates to an engineered product is often accompanied by an increase in the cost of that product. (correct)
• Absolute safety is possible to attain in an engineering product

• Warranty costs, loss of goodwill, loss of customers, litigation costs, downtime costs in manufacturing, etc (correct)
• Production, materials, design, or any cost required to produce the product
• The cost of improving safety in an engineered product
• The cost of attaining absolute safety in an engineered product

• A highly risky (low safe) product
• A product with no safety features
• A highly safe (low risk) product (correct)
• A product with low risk and low safety features