ESD.863
System Safety
Spring 2016
Topics
- Introduction, Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias
- CAST and Accident Analysis
- Traditional HA, Lecture on Quantification
- Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Introduction, Basic Components (hazard, constraints, HCS)
- STPA, How to Do It
- Design for Safety
- Human Factors
- Cyber Security
- Operations, Regulation
- Guest Lecture
- Management, SUBSAFE
- Presentations of Class Projects
Readings
- [ESW] Chapters 1 and 2.
- [Safeware] Chapter 1.
- Part 1—Chapters 1–2 Questions Accident Models, STAMP, Systems Theory
- [ESW] Chapters 3 and 4.
- [ESW] Chapters 5 and 11.
- SES #: 4 · CLASS TOPICS: Traditional HA, Lecture on Quantification · READINGS: [Safeware] pp. 305–11, 313–26, 327–32, 341–44, 350–58
- SES #: 5 · CLASS TOPICS: Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Introduction, Basic Components (hazard, constraints, HCS) · READINGS: [ESW] Chapters 6 and 7 (only pp. 211–30).
- SES #: 6 · CLASS TOPICS: STPA, How to Do It · READINGS: [ESW] Chapter 8.
- [Safeware] Chapter 16, Follensbee.
- SES #: 9 · CLASS TOPICS: Cyber Security · READINGS: Young and Leveson paper
- [ESW] Chapters 12.
- SES #: 12 · CLASS TOPICS: Management, SUBSAFE · READINGS: [ESW] Chapters 13 and 14.
- Leveson, Nancy G. “Technical and Managerial Factors in the NASA Challenger and Columbia Losses: Looking Forward to the Future.” In Controveries in Science and Technology Vol. 2: From Climate to Chromosomes . Edited by Kleinman, Cloud-Hansen, Matta, and Handelsman. Mary Ann Liebert Incorportaion, 2008. ISBN: 9780913113424.
- Leveson, Nancy G. Safeware: System Safety and Computers . Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.