Many of the course notes are based on handouts from Professor Leveson as well as her text book:
Leveson, Nancy. Safeware: System Safety and Computer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN: 0201119722.
Note: In the following, S-n stands for Chapter n in "Safeware" and New-n stands for Chapter n in a draft version of A New Approach To System Safety Engineering (PDF - 2.2 MB).
Course readings.
| SES # |
Topics |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction to Class, Accident Causation, System Safety |
S-1 and S-2 (PDF), New-1, New-2, New-3, New-4, MIL-STD-882B |
| 2 |
Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk, PHA and Risk Assessment, Traditional Hazard Analysis Techniques, Intent Specifications |
S-7, S-8, S-9, S-13, S-14, New-11 Follensbee notes, Safeware Appendices (at least Therac-25, DC-10, Challenger, Bhopal, Three Mile Island) |
| 3 |
Discussion Questions and In-class Debate on Responsibility for Risk (cont.), A New Systems-theoretic Accident Model, Review Preliminary Hazard Analysis for ACC |
S-4, New-Appendix B, New-5, New-6, New-7, New-8 |
| 4 |
STPA |
New-9, STPA paper by Howard and Kelley |
| 5 |
Catch Up |
|
| 6 |
Requirements Analysis and Level 1 Reviews for ACC |
S-15 |
| 7 |
Design for safety |
S-16, Knight and Leveson (PDF)
A Reply to Our Critics (PDF) |
| 8 |
Humans and Automation |
S-5, S-6, S-17, Bachelder and Leveson (PDF) |
| 9 |
Robert Francis Visit, Accident Investigation, Presentation of STAMP Analyses of Ueberlingen Accident |
DOE standard |
| 10 |
Operations and Management by Prof. John Carroll |
S-11, S-12, Carroll, Rudolph, Hatakenaka. Learning from Experience in High Hazard Organizations (PDF)
Carroll. Organizational Learning Activities in High-Hazard Industries: The Logics underlying Self-Analysis (PDF) |
| 11 |
Visitor |
S-18 |
| 12 |
Visitors from Electric Boat (Submarine Safety) |
Time to catch up |
| 13 |
Review of ACC Designs, Wrap-up |
Epilogue (Safeware, pp. 509-511) |