16.358J / ESD.358J System Safety, Spring 2003
Author(s)
Leveson, Nancy
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Alternative title
System Safety
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Covers important concepts and techniques in designing and operating safety-critical systems. Topics include: the nature of risk, formal accident and human error models, causes of accidents, fundamental concepts of system safety engineering, system and software hazard analysis, designing for safety, fault tolerance, safety issues in the design of human-machine interaction, verification of safety, creating a safety culture, and management of safety-critical projects. Includes a class project involving the high-level system design and analysis of a safety-critical system.
Date issued
2003-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems DivisionOther identifiers
16.358J-Spring2003
local: 16.358J
local: ESD.358J
local: IMSCP-MD5-e732da803b526b9868fee5dd125df926
Keywords
system safety, software safety, system reliability, safety-critical systems, accident models, human error models, system safety engineering, software hazard analysis, fault tolerance, safety culture, 16.358J, ESD.358J, 16.358, ESD.358, System safety