16.63J | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate

System Safety

Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction, Uberlingen; Class Description (PDF)
2 Introduction to Accident Causality, Bhopal, hindsight bias (PDF - 1.7MB)
3 Discuss Citichem Causes, hindsight bias (PDF - 1.5MB)
4 System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP), systems theory, accident models
5 More on STAMP, systems theory, accident models
6 CAST and Accident analysis (PDF - 1.3MB)
7 More on CAST (PDF)
8 Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (PDF - 5.5MB)
9 Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (cont.)
10 Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) intro, basic components (PDF - 2.6MB)
11 STPA
12 STPA (cont.)
13 STPA and review projects (PDF)
14 Design for safety (PDF)
15 Design for safety (cont.)
16 Human factors
17 Human factors (cont.)
18 Cyber Security
19 Discuss Take Home Exam
20 Operations, regulation
21 Operations, regulation (cont.)
22 Invited Speaker
23 Management
24 SUBSAFE
25 Present projects
26 Present projects (cont.)

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