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Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK, 8-10 February 2005

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Independent Safety Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Putting Trust into Safety Arguments

      • Jane Fenn, Brian Jepson
      Pages 21-35
  3. Safety and Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. SafSec: Commonalities Between Safety and Security Assurance

      • Samantha Lautieri, David Cooper, David Jackson
      Pages 65-75
  4. Accident Investigation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Learning from a Train Derailment

      • Kevin Payne
      Pages 79-92
  5. Risk and its Tolerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. Developing and Using Risk Matrices

      • Michael Prince
      Pages 129-145
  6. Achieving and Arguing the Safety of Modular Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. Modular Certification of Integrated Modular Systems

      • James Blow, Andrew Cox, Paul Liddell
      Pages 183-192
  7. Technologies for Dependability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
    2. The Effects of Timing and Collaboration on Dependability in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

      • Gordon D. Baxter, Juliana Küster Filipre, Angela Miguel, Kenneth Tan
      Pages 195-210

About this book

Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking contains the invited papers presented at the Thirteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Southampton, UK in February 2005.

The papers included in this volume bring together topics that are of the utmost importance in current safety thinking. The core of modern safety thinking and practice is a risk-based approach, and this is not only a common thread running throughout the papers, but is also explored in two of them. Other themes considered include the safety case, safety assessment, accident investigation, and the commonality between the processes and techniques employed in safety and security engineering.

Papers contain extensive industrial experience as well as recent academic research and are presented under the headings: Independent Safety Assessment, Safety and Security, Accident Investigation, Risk and its Tolerability, Achieving and Arguing the Safety of Modular Systems, and Technologies for Dependability.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Redmill Consultancy, London

    Felix Redmill

  • Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Tom Anderson

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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