System Safety for Managers

Presenter: Matthew Squair

6 May 2024 | 14 October 2024

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Duration: 1 Day | Price: $990

 

Course Aim

The System Safety for Managers course introduces system safety key concepts and practices that will allow project and engineering managers to integrate system safety activities into an acquisition program. System safety as a specialist discipline can be challenging to integrate successfully into a major program or project. The System Safety for Managers course provides attendees with an understanding of the fundamental principles of system safety and how such a specialist program can be integrated into an acquisition program. Course learning objectives are as follows::

  • Describe the system safety lifecycle process and how it relates to the management of safety risks during the system acquisition lifecycle.

  • Identify key activities of the system safety program planning process including the identification of stakeholders, safety criteria, organisational interfaces, and regulatory engagement.

  • Describe the role of a safety case in providing a credible argument supported by evidence as the safety of the system being acquired.

  • Identify the stages of safety case development and importance of this as an upfront project activity.

  • Identify the specific system safety challenges posed by complex hardware and software, human factors and off the shelf acquisition.

Course Outline

Introduction: History | Key definitions | Safety criteria | Hazards and Risk | System safety lifecycle | Integration Issues | Tracking systems | The hazard log | The safety case

Planning: Planning | Acquirer and supplier roles | Scheduling and resourcing | Stakeholders | Safety Interfaces | Regulatory engagement | The development lifecycles | Planning class exercise

Safety cases: History | Safety arguments and evidence | Lifecycle of the safety case | Safety cases modular vs monolithic | Safety case worked example

Challenges: Complex software and hardware | Assurance standards | Managing human error | Off the shelf components and safety | Case studies

Course Material

The following resources will be provided to attendees of this course:

  1. A PDF copy of the PowerPoint presentations used for the course.

  2. A copy of the presenter’s book, Critical Uncertainties: The Theory and Practice of System Safety