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Practical Elements of Safety: Proceedings of the Twelfth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 17–19 February 2004

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag London
Year
2004
ISBN
978-1-85233-800-8, 978-0-85729-408-1
DOI
10.1007/978-0-85729-408-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7489903 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
242\235
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

Description

Practical Elements of Safety 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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