: Felix Redmill, Tom Anderson
: Felix Redmill, Tom Anderson
: The Safety of Systems Proceedings of the Fifteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 13-15 February 2007
: Springer-Verlag
: 9781846288067
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The Safety of Systems contains the invited papers presented at the fifteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2007. The papers included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of important safety issues. They provide a combination of industrial experience and recent developments, and are presented under a variety of headings.

PREFACE6
THE SAFETY- CRITICAL SYSTEMS CLUB8
Safety-critical Systems Symposium8
CONTENTS LIST10
Interdependence of Safety and Security13
Achieving Safety through Security Management14
1 Introduction14
2 General Parallels15
3 SPECIFIC CONTROLS20
4 General Conclusions30
Towards a Unified Approach to Safety and Security in Automotive Systems32
1 Introduction32
2. Description of the Two Approaches34
3. Merging the Two Approaches39
4. Conclusion43
Dependability-by-Contract46
1 Introduction46
2 Dependability Goals47
3 Dependability Lifecycle48
4 Practical Examples58
5 Conclusions60
Demonstrating Safety64
Achieving Integrated Process and Product Safety Arguments66
1 Introduction66
2 Role of Process Evidence in Safety Arguments68
3 An Example Product Argument70
4 An Example Process Argument72
5 Discussion76
6 Summary78
The Benefits of Electronic Safety Cases80
1 Introduction80
2 Making the most of scarce resource81
3 Knowing when to stop85
4 Cost- effective exploitation of safety information88
5 Conclusions93
6 Acknowledgements93
7 References93
Safety Management94
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Causal Factors in Major Maritime Accidents in the USA and Canada ( 1996- 2006)96
1 Introduction96
2 Method98
3 US National Transportation Safety Board Results101
4 Canadian Transportation Safety Board Results105
5 Conclusions111
A Proactive Approach to Enhancing Safety Culture116
1 Introduction117
2 Organisation and Cultural Drivers118
3 Safety Culture and the Nuclear Industry118
4 Safety Culture Enhancement Plan120
5 Nuclear Safety Culture Workshops121
Comparing and Contrasting some of the Approaches in UK and USA Safety Assessment Processes.128
1 Introduction128
2 Common Definitions or not?129
3 Comparison of Industry Data131
4 Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF)133
5 Safety Planning135
6 Safety Reporting137
7 Summary139
8 References139
Trends in Safety Case Development142
Safety Case Composition Using Contracts - Refinements based on Feedback from an Industrial Case Study144
1 Introduction144
2 Modular GSN Definition145
3 Issues of Using Modular GSN Notation148
4 Issues of Using Safety Case Contract Tables149
5 lAWG Proposed Implementation of Safety Case Contracts151
6 Summary156
7 Acknowledgements157
8 References157
THE SUM OF ITS PARTS158
Introduction158
The First Cut159
Partition by Persistence159
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A Note on Review and Agreement162
A Bit More Detail163
Conclusion168
Lessons in Safety Assessment172
Independently Assessing Legacy Safety Systems174
1 Introduction174
2 Large-scale and Legacy Engineering Projects175
3 The Role of the Independent Assessor176
4 The Benefits of Legacy Systems178
5 Assessment Challenges178
6 Lessons187
7 Conclusions188
8 References189
Safety Assessments of Air Traffic Systems190
1 Introduction190
2 Safety Management System Essentials191
3 Safety Requirements195
4 Safety Assurance200
5 The European Interoperability Requirement203
6 Conclusions205
CARA: A Human Reliability Assessment Tool for Air Traffic Safety Management - Technical Basis and Preliminary Architecture208
1 Introduction208
2 Background to Human Reliability Assessment209
3 Current Approaches in Use215
4 Summary of Lessons from the Evolution of HRA217
5 ATM HRA Requirements217
6 Preliminary Outline of CARA218
7 Conclusion222
References223
High Integrity from Specification to Code226
AMBERS: Improving Requirements Specification Through Assertive Models and SCADE/ DOORS Integration228
1 Introduction229
2 AMBERS Methodology235
3 Door Health Monitored and Control System ( DHMCS) - AMBERS Demonstrator Project246
4 Conclusion250
5 References252
Formalising C and C++ for Use in High Integrity Systems254
1 Introduction254
2 Developing High Integrity Guidance for C++255
3 Formalising C - the C ^ Subset263
4 Summary270
5 References270