| Practical Elements of Safety: Proceedings of the Twelfth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Birmingham, Uk, 17-19 February 2004 Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Redmill, Felix (Editor), Anderson, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1852338008 ISBN-13: 9781852338008 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Health & Safety - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - Systems Analysis & Design - Computers | Hardware - Mobile Devices |
| Dewey: 363.11 |
| LCCN: 2003067387 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.80 lbs) 242 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |