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.)