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System Safety

3-0-9 units. REST · Undergraduate

Introduces the concepts of system safety and how to analyze and design safer systems. Topics include the causes of accidents in general, and recent major accidents in particular; hazard analysis, safety-driven design techniques; design of human-automation interaction; integrating safety into the system engineering process; and managing and operating safety-critical systems.

Spring 2016

Topics

  • Introduction, Uberlingen; Class Description
  • Introduction to Accident Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias
  • Discuss Citichem Causes, Hindsight Bias
  • System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP), Systems Theory, Accident Models
  • More on STAMP, Systems Theory, Accident Models
  • CAST and Accident Analysis
  • More on CAST
  • Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA)
  • Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (cont.)
  • Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Intro, Basic Components
  • STPA
  • STPA (cont.)
  • STPA and Review Projects
  • Design for Safety
  • Design for Safety (cont.)
  • Human Factors
  • Human Factors (cont.)
  • Cyber Security
  • Operations, Regulation
  • Operations, Regulation (cont.)
  • Invited Speaker
  • Management
  • SUBSAFE
  • Present Projects
  • Present Projects (cont.)

Readings

  • [ESW] = Buy at MIT Press Leveson, Nancy G. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety . MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262016629. This book is available for purchase or as a free download from the MIT Press website. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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  • [Safeware] = ———. Safeware: System Safety and Computers 1st Edition . Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.
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  • [ESW] Chapter 1.
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  • [Safeware] Chapter 1.
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  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Introduction to Accident Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [Safeware] pp. 129–35 and 145–55.
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  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP), Systems Theory, Accident Models · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 3.
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  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: More on STAMP, Systems Theory, Accident Models · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 75–91 and 98–100.
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  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: CAST and Accident Analysis · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapters 5 and 11.
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  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: More on CAST · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [Safeware] pp. 305–11, 313–26, 327–32, and 341–4.
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  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Intro, Basic Components · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 6, pp. 181–95.
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  • SES #: 11 · TOPICS: STPA · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 211–30.
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  • SES #: 12 · TOPICS: STPA (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 13 · TOPICS: STPA and Review Projects · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Design for Safety · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [Safeware] Chapter 16: Follensbee.
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  • SES #: 15 · TOPICS: Design for Safety (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 251–73.
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  • SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Human Factors · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): Automation Complacency Paper
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  • SES #: 17 · TOPICS: Human Factors (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 273–306.
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  • SES #: 18 · TOPICS: Cyber Security · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): Young and Leveson paper
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  • SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Operations, Regulation · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 12.
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  • SES #: 21 · TOPICS: Operations, Regulation (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Invited Speaker · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Management · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 13.
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  • SES #: 24 · TOPICS: SUBSAFE · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
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  • SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Present Projects · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 14.
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  • SES #: 26 · TOPICS: Present Projects (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
    Reading assignment
  • Leveson, Nancy G. Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press ———. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems). MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262016629. This book is available for purchase or as a free download from the MIT Press website. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as IDS.045[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) 3-0-9 units. REST

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