Components of System Safety : Proceedings of the Tenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK 2002 /

Components of System Safety contains the invited papers presented at the tenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Southampton, February 2002. The papers included in this volume are representative of modern safety thinking, the questions that arise from it, and the investigations that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redmill, Felix
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Anderson, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint : Springer, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Accidents and Their Investigation
  • Accident Investigation - Missed Opportunities
  • The Asta Train Crash, its Precursors and Consequences, and its Investigation
  • Reasons for the Failure of Incident Reporting in the Healthcare and Rail Industries
  • Issues of Low-SIL Systems
  • The Management of Complex, Safety-Related Information Systems
  • Engineering SCADA Products for Use in Safety-Related Systems
  • Human Factors
  • Automating Functions in Multi-agent Control Systems: Supporting the Decision Process
  • The Processes to Manage (and Minimise) the Human Risk in Complex Systems
  • Safety Requirements
  • Human Factors Considerations for System Safety
  • Will It be Safe?- Deriving Safety Requirements using REVEAL (R)
  • Risk
  • Integrated Design Analysis
  • Airport Risk Assessment: Examples, Models and Mitigations
  • Communicating Risk: Reconfiguring Expert-Lay Relations
  • Communication and Electronic Safety
  • Safer Data: A Case Study of the Use of Data by a Railway Command and Control System
  • E-Technology - Excitement, Enlightenment and Risk.