Design as a Tool for Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities Regarding Artifacts of Public Safety

Abstract

It is on man’s interaction with the environment, taking into account all objects whether or not they are natural that design is focused. However, the relationship between the quantity and quality of what is produced and the creative processes of design do not always bring about the responses that the end user wants. This paper puts forward a proposal for designing a tool that may contribute to design methodologies for evaluating the safety of artifacts the use of which are restricted in the activity of Law Enforcement by Managing their Risks and Vulnerabilities. The paper sets out to include the knowledge of an expert in this subject area who is working on the risks and vulnerabilities that are present so as to obtain the most appropriate artifact possible for the demand proposed. The process of making such artifacts adequate and selecting them is permeated by such a large number of factors that they can only be matched, in amount, to the number of possible combinations between pieces of a chessboard. Hence the importance of producing a scale of values by using a rational and practical tool.