ESD.03
System Safety
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
- [Safeware] = ———. Safeware: System Safety and Computers 1st Edition . Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.
- [ESW] Chapter 1.
- [Safeware] Chapter 1.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SES #: 6 · TOPICS: CAST and Accident Analysis · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapters 5 and 11.
- SES #: 7 · TOPICS: More on CAST · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- 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.
- SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- 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.
- SES #: 11 · TOPICS: STPA · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 211–30.
- SES #: 12 · TOPICS: STPA (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- SES #: 13 · TOPICS: STPA and Review Projects · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Design for Safety · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [Safeware] Chapter 16: Follensbee.
- SES #: 15 · TOPICS: Design for Safety (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 251–73.
- SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Human Factors · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): Automation Complacency Paper
- SES #: 17 · TOPICS: Human Factors (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] pp. 273–306.
- SES #: 18 · TOPICS: Cyber Security · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): Young and Leveson paper
- SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Operations, Regulation · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 12.
- SES #: 21 · TOPICS: Operations, Regulation (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Invited Speaker · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Management · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 13.
- SES #: 24 · TOPICS: SUBSAFE · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Present Projects · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): [ESW] Chapter 14.
- SES #: 26 · TOPICS: Present Projects (cont.) · READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK): n/a
- Leveson, Nancy G. Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.