Making Systems Safer Proceedings of the Eighteenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 9-11th February 2010

Making Systems Safer contains the papers presented at the eighteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK, in February 2010.

The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of system safety, across all industry sectors, so the papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of current safety topics, and a blend of academic research and industrial experience. They include both recent developments in the field and discussion of open issues that will shape future progress.

The first paper reflects a tutorial – on Formalization in Safety Cases – held on the first day of the Symposium. The subsequent 15 papers are presented under the headings of the Symposium’s sessions: Perspectives on Systems Safety, Managing Safety-Related Projects, Transport Safety, Safety Standards, Safety Competencies and Safety Methods.

The book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners working in the safety-critical systems arena.

Tutorial Paper.- Formalism in Safety Cases.- Perspectives on Systems Safety.- Bureaucracy, Safety and Software: a Potentially Lethal Cocktail.- Cost-Efficient Methods and Processes for Safety Relevant Embedded Systems (CESAR) – An Objective Overview.- Safety and Assurance Cases: Past, Present and Possible Future – an Adelard Perspective.- Managing Safety-Related Projects.- An Integrated Project Management Life Cycle Supporting System Safety.- Patterns in Safety-Related Projects.- Transport Safety.- Applying IEC 61508 to Air Traffic Management Systems.- Phileas, a Safety Critical Trip around the World.- Safety Standards.- An Overview of the SoBP for Software in the Context of DS 00-56 Issue 4.- IEC80001 and Future Ramifications for Health Systems not currently classed as Medical Devices.- Safety Competencies.- Competence, The Why? The How? and ‘A Practical Approach’.- The new IET Guide – how to do EMC to help achieve Functional Safety.- Code of Practice and Competencies for ISAs.- Safety Methods.- Evaluation and Integration of COTS in Evidence based Assurance Frameworks.- A Way to Successful Hazard Management.