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Many of the course notes are based on handouts from Professor Leveson as well as her text book:

Amazon logo Leveson, Nancy. Safeware: System Safety and Computer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN: 0201119722.

Note: In the following, S-n stands for Chapter n in "Safeware" and New-n stands for Chapter n in a draft version of A New Approach To System Safety Engineering  (PDF - 2.2 MB).


SES #TopicsREADINGS
1Introduction to Class, Accident Causation, System SafetyS-1 and S-2 (PDF), New-1, New-2, New-3, New-4, MIL-STD-882B
2Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk, PHA and Risk Assessment, Traditional Hazard Analysis Techniques, Intent SpecificationsS-7, S-8, S-9, S-13, S-14, New-11 Follensbee notes, Safeware Appendices (at least Therac-25, DC-10, Challenger, Bhopal, Three Mile Island)
3Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk (cont.), A New Systems-theoretic Accident Model, Review Preliminary Hazard Analysis for ACCS-4, New-Appendix B, New-5, New-6, New-7, New-8
4STPANew-9, STPA paper by Howard and Kelley
5Catch Up
6Requirements Analysis and Level 1 Reviews for ACCS-15
7Design for safetyS-16, Knight and Leveson (PDF)

A Reply to Our Critics (PDF)
8Humans and AutomationS-5, S-6, S-17, Bachelder and Leveson (PDF)
9Robert Francis Visit, Accident Investigation, Presentation of STAMP Analyses of Ueberlingen AccidentDOE standard
10Operations and Management by Prof. John CarrollS-11, S-12, Carroll, Rudolph, Hatakenaka. Learning from Experience in High Hazard Organizations (PDF)

Carroll. Organizational Learning Activities in High-Hazard Industries: The Logics underlying Self-Analysis (PDF)
11VisitorS-18
12Visitors from Electric Boat (Submarine Safety)Time to catch up
13Review of ACC Designs, Wrap-upEpilogue (Safeware, pp. 509-511)

 








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