The Hierarchy of Controls (or how to stop devs from dropping prod)

The other day a mechanical engineer introduced me to the Hierarchy of Controls (HoC), an important concept in workplace safety. 1 (source) To protect people from hazards, system designers should seek to use the most effective controls available. This means elimination over substitution, substitution over engineering controls, etc. Can we use the Hierarchy of Controls in software engineering? Software environments are different than physical environments, but maybe there are some ideas worth extr...