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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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Author:   Felix Redmill ,  Tom Anderson
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781852338008

ISBN 10:   1852338008
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   20 February 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Keynote 1. Dear Sir, Yours faithfully: An Everyday Story of Formality Mature and Practical Formality 2. Safe Object-Oriented Software: The Verified Design-By-Contract Paradigm 3. A Rigorous Specification Technique for High Quality Software Managing Risk in the Railway Industry 4. Development and Use of the UK Railway Network's Safety Risk Model 5. Safety Decision Making for the Railway Safety Integrity Levels 6. Methods of Determining Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Requirements - Pros and Cons 7. An Examination of the IEC 61508 Approach Towards Safety Integrity Levels and Modes of Operation of Safety Functions The Human Side of Risk 8. Chasing Shadows: Science Journalism and the Politics of Risk 9. Completing the Human Safety Jigsaw Assessment and the Derivation of Evidence 10. Evidence Gathering Using Static Code Analysis 11. Estimating PLC Logic Program Reliability 12. A Systematic Framework for the Assessment of Operating Systems Safety Argument and the Law 13. The Changing Face of UK Safety Legislation 14. Turning up the HEAT on Safety Case Construction

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