Ebook: Aspects of Safety Management: Proceedings of the Ninth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK 2001

Aspects of Safety Management contains the invited papers presented at the ninth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, February 2001. For some time, it has been recognised that technical issues are only one side of the safety coin. The other, often dominant feature, is active, informed and committed management. An understanding of risk, emphasis on education and the use of language, attention to learning lessons from both research and other industry sectors, and the development of the appropriate staff competences, are all aspects of safety management. The papers contained within this volume cover a broad range of subjects, but all have the common link of safety management. They present a great deal of industrial experience, as well as some recent academic research.

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Aspects of Safety Management contains the invited papers presented at the ninth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, February 2001. For some time, it has been recognised that technical issues are only one side of the safety coin. The other, often dominant feature, is active, informed and committed management. An understanding of risk, emphasis on education and the use of language, attention to learning lessons from both research and other industry sectors, and the development of the appropriate staff competences, are all aspects of safety management. The papers contained within this volume cover a broad range of subjects, but all have the common link of safety management. They present a great deal of industrial experience, as well as some recent academic research.

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Aspects of Safety Management contains the invited papers presented at the ninth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, February 2001. For some time, it has been recognised that technical issues are only one side of the safety coin. The other, often dominant feature, is active, informed and committed management. An understanding of risk, emphasis on education and the use of language, attention to learning lessons from both research and other industry sectors, and the development of the appropriate staff competences, are all aspects of safety management. The papers contained within this volume cover a broad range of subjects, but all have the common link of safety management. They present a great deal of industrial experience, as well as some recent academic research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Safety Cases for Software-Intensive Systems....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
System Safety and Management Information Systems....Pages 13-34
The Practicalities of Goal-Based Safety Regulation....Pages 35-48
Management of System Safety on the Railtrack West Coast Route Modernisation....Pages 49-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Potential Benefits of Minimising Jargon in Safety Engineering....Pages 65-73
Teaching Safety — Issues of Course Design and Delivery....Pages 74-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Some Ways of Improving Our Methods of Qualitative Safety Analysis and Why We Need Them....Pages 89-99
The Role of Cost benefit Analysis in Safety Critical Systems....Pages 100-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
When is Software Ready for Production? Parallels with Automotive QS9000 Methods....Pages 111-125
A Description of the Monitoring Architecture and Design Justification used for Automotive Electronic Throttle Control Systems....Pages 126-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Design Diversity: an Update from Research on Reliability Modelling....Pages 139-154
Recent Contributions to System Modelling and Analysis....Pages 155-174
Air vehicle Software Static Code Analysis Lessons Learnt....Pages 175-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Towards meaningful uptake of Competency Descriptors....Pages 197-205
Competency guidelines — a practical implementation....Pages 206-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-213

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Aspects of Safety Management contains the invited papers presented at the ninth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, February 2001. For some time, it has been recognised that technical issues are only one side of the safety coin. The other, often dominant feature, is active, informed and committed management. An understanding of risk, emphasis on education and the use of language, attention to learning lessons from both research and other industry sectors, and the development of the appropriate staff competences, are all aspects of safety management. The papers contained within this volume cover a broad range of subjects, but all have the common link of safety management. They present a great deal of industrial experience, as well as some recent academic research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Safety Cases for Software-Intensive Systems....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
System Safety and Management Information Systems....Pages 13-34
The Practicalities of Goal-Based Safety Regulation....Pages 35-48
Management of System Safety on the Railtrack West Coast Route Modernisation....Pages 49-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Potential Benefits of Minimising Jargon in Safety Engineering....Pages 65-73
Teaching Safety — Issues of Course Design and Delivery....Pages 74-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Some Ways of Improving Our Methods of Qualitative Safety Analysis and Why We Need Them....Pages 89-99
The Role of Cost benefit Analysis in Safety Critical Systems....Pages 100-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
When is Software Ready for Production? Parallels with Automotive QS9000 Methods....Pages 111-125
A Description of the Monitoring Architecture and Design Justification used for Automotive Electronic Throttle Control Systems....Pages 126-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Design Diversity: an Update from Research on Reliability Modelling....Pages 139-154
Recent Contributions to System Modelling and Analysis....Pages 155-174
Air vehicle Software Static Code Analysis Lessons Learnt....Pages 175-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Towards meaningful uptake of Competency Descriptors....Pages 197-205
Competency guidelines — a practical implementation....Pages 206-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-213
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