Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Safety-citical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006

This book assembles papers presented at the 14th Annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2006. The papers address the most critical topics in the field of safety-critical systems. The focus, considered from various perspectives, is on recent developments in risk-based approaches. Subjects discussed include innovation in risk analysis, management risk, the safety case, software safety, language development and the creation of systems for complex control functions.

In seeking a method of analysing management risk, it would be easiest to limit
the task to the junior management level. An obvious starting point is to attempt to
include the junior manager within the boundary or the system that is the source of
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