Contents:

Safety within the legal framework - Introduction - Civil Liability - Sentencing Trends - Organisational Responses - Implications on the Engineer - Discussion - Further Reading The safety concept - Understanding safety - The importance of safety - Safety segments - Ensuring safety Standards and regulations - Introduction - Airworthiness - Source of Regulations - Civil Regulatory Authorities - Military Regulatory Authorities - Health and Safety Regulations - The Impact on Organisations - The Impact on Safety Management Systems - Discussion Risk based approach - Introduction - Defining risk - Assessing risk - ALARP - Managing the risk - Summarising the risk-based approach - Discussion - Further reading Goal based approach - Introduction - Probability targets vs. failure severity levels - Severity and probability - Summary - Combining the risk- and goal based criteria - Discussion Hazards - Understanding Hazards and their Causes - Identifying Hazards - Assessing Hazards - Equipment Failures and Faults - Hazards of a Normal Functioning System - Systemic Failures - Assessment Approach - Precedence of Hazard Resolution - Safety Assessment - Tools and Techniques - Discussion The fail safe dimension - Introduction - Defences against failure - Fail Safe Principles - Applying fail-safe principles - Discussion The safety assessment - History - Aims and Objective of a System Safety Assessment - The System and it relationship to Safety - Planning the Safety Assessment - Safety During the Development Process - Modelling the Safety Assessment Process - Generating the System Safety Assessment Reports - Discussion The safety case - History - Developing the Requirement - Core Component - The Safety Case Report - Discussion Numerical probabilistic approach - Introduction - The fundamental concepts - Applied quantitative assessment - Assessment - Process - Specific Issues of Concern - Determining Failure Rates of Basic Events - Discussion Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL) - Introduction - The concept of MEL - Generic approach - Process - Equipment included in an MMEL/MEL - Discussion - Further reading The Safety Management System - Introduction - What is a SMS? - Safety Culture - Developing an SMS - Discussion - Further - Reading Concluding observations - Aviation Trends - Safety Assessments/Safety Cases - New Technologies - Safety - Engineering Competence - Safety Culture - Impact on Projects - Final Remarks Appendix A: Safety Assessment Tools & Techniques Appendix B: Safety Criteria Appendix C: GSN Safety Argument