The integration of security measures into a well-founded safety assurance process is a growing demand in the domain of safety-critical systems. In many cases, the safety assurance procedures are well-established at companies. Even to tie in the most necessary security actions already present a major...
System Safety is not a well-known field. When the word ?engineering? is mentioned, words that come to mind are design, innovation, progression, but not safety. This can also be said for many high school and college engineering curricula, most do not have a focus in safety. The primary focus is on te...
As the scope and range of unmanned lethal weapon systems grow, the requirement to maintain effective human control authority over ever-growing autonomy in the functionality allocated to the system?s software grows more and more challenging. Ensuring necessary human in-the-loop or on-the-loop control...
Most Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)?guides and tutorials focus on building Fault Tree (FT) models or the development of data/probabilities to quantify the FT model. This tutorial takes a different perspective: How do I review a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to ensure it is correct and complete? This question...
This paper summarizes the application of system safety engineering methods to the evaluation, management and mitigation of some potential safety risks of high voltage automotive battery systems. The battery system in electric vehicles is very complex and must balance many attr...
Aircraft are being networked and equipped with technology that enables onboard and air-to-ground connectivity, increasing the importance of information security in aircraft avionics. These networked systems provide access to and share real-time data for responsive decision-making and control ? suppo...
In recent years, the importance of a strong, positive safety culture has been studied, discussed, and written about extensively. Safety culture has been defined as the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitmen...
In order to evaluate safety or risk on today?s highly integrated and complex systems, system safety must become an active participant in the requirements capture and validation process. Application of requirements-based processes such as SAE ARP4754, RTCA DO-178, DO-254, and MIL-STD-882 software saf...
After some general background on system safety and the motivation for its application an overview of a generic safety process (best suited for small to medium sized projects), in relation to the project lifecycle, is given. For each major project phase the respective safety process phase, safety obj...
As an engineering discipline System Safety Engineering is relatively new, with an origin in the 1960s. During the last 60 years the management approaches used by the discipline have evolved and six discrete ideas have come to the fore which can be characterized as phases or eras. The newer ideas hav...
This tutorial aims to provide an introduction to the challenges and potential solution routes for the assurance of safety-related robotic and autonomous systems based on the Sense, Understand, Decide, Act (SUDA) characterisation of autonomy. The workshop will introduce the background technologies fo...
