System Safety

Calendar

SES #	CLASS TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction, Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias	Assignments 1 and 2 out
2	Part 1—Chapters 1–2 Questions Accident Models, STAMP, Systems Theory Part 2—Ethics Discussion	Assignments 1 and 2 due Assignments 3 and 4 out
3	CAST and Accident Analysis	Assignments 3 and 4 due CAST analysis assignment out
4	Traditional HA, Lecture on Quantification	Class project out
5	Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Introduction, Basic Components (hazard, constraints, HCS)	CAST analysis assignment due
6	STPA, How to Do It	Class project parts 1 and 2 due
7	Design for Safety	Class project part 3 due
8	Human Factors	Class project part 4 due
9	Cyber Security
10	Operations, Regulation
11	Guest Lecture
12	Management, SUBSAFE	Completed project (parts 6, 7, and 8) due
13	Presentations of Class Projects