Components of System Safety, 2002 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 result. They are all aimed at the transfer of technology, experience, and lessons to and within industry, and they offer a broad range of views. Not only do they show what has been done and what could be done, but they also lead the reader to speculate on ways in which safety might be improved.

Accidents and their Investigation.- Accident Investigation - Missed Opportunities.- The Åsta 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? - An Approach to Engineering Safety Requirements.- Risk.- Integrated Design Analysis.- Airport Risk Assessment: Examples, Models and Mitigations.- Communicating Risk: Reconfiguring Expert-Lay Relations.- Communication and Electronic Safety.- Safer Data: The Use of Data in the Context of a Railway Control System.- e-Technology - Excitement, Enlightenment and Risk.- Author Index.