Practical Elements of Safety : Proceedings of the Twelfth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 17-19 February 2004 /
<STRONG>Practical Elements of Safety</STRONG> contains the invited papers presented at the Twelfth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Birmingham, UK in February 2004. The papers included in this volume focus on the themes of the identification and analysis of risk - using...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer London : Imprint : Springer,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | <STRONG>Practical Elements of Safety</STRONG> contains the invited papers presented at the Twelfth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Birmingham, UK in February 2004. The papers included in this volume focus on the themes of the identification and analysis of risk - using the UK railway as an industry example; safety-integrity levels; industrial use of formal methods; as well as expanding on the development, assessment and changing face of current safety issues. All the papers are linked within the broad context of safety-critical systems actvities and offer a practical perspective. Papers contain industrial experience, as well as academic research, and are presented under the headings of: Mature and Practical Formality, Managing Risk in the Railway Industry, Safety Integrity Levels, the Human Side of Risk, Assessment and the Derivation of Evidence, and Safety Argument and the Law. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 241 pages 49 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9780857294081 (electronic bk.) 0857294083 (electronic bk.) |