System Safety

Lecture Notes

SES #	CLASS TOPICS
1	Introduction, Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias (PDF - 1.5MB)
2	Part 1—Chapters 1–2 Questions Accident Models, STAMP, Systems Theory (PDF - 1.8MB) Part 2—Ethics Discussion
3	CAST and Accident Analysis (Part 1 CAST Class Notes, PDF - 1.3MB) (Part 2 CAST Analysis, PDF)
4	Traditional HA, Lecture on Quantification (PDF - 5.6MB)
5	Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Introduction, Basic Components (hazard, constraints, HCS) (PDF)
6	STPA, How to Do It
7	Design for Safety (PDF)
8	Human Factors
9	Cyber Security
10	Operations, Regulation (PDF)
11	Guest Lecture
12	Management, SUBSAFE
13	Presentations of Class Projects