Selected lecture notes are available below.
Lecture notes files.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
LECTURE NOTES |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Traditional safety engineering techniques, discussion of responsibility assignment |
( PDF - 3.1MB) |
| 3 |
Why we need something different, presentation of accident reports |
(PDF) |
| 4 |
Systems-theoretic accident modeling processes (STAMP) and accident analysis, presentation of more accident reports |
(PDF) |
| 5 |
Hindsight bias |
(PDF - 1.0MB) (Courtesy of Sidney Dekker. Used with permission.) |
| 6 |
Causal analysis based on STAMP (CAST) accident presentations |
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| 7 |
Systems-theoretic hazard analysis (STPA) |
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| 8 |
Design for Safety, Level 1 presentations of Nancy's Shuttle |
(PDF - 1.6MB) |
| 9 |
Safety in social systems |
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| 10 |
Safety during operations, occupational safety |
(PDF) |
| 11 |
Management and safety culture |
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| 12 |
Regulation, how safe is safe enough? SUBSAFE |
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| 13 |
Presentations of final class project |
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