links to external resources
In this area we provide a repository of links to external information resources, including:
- safety courses
- safety research groups and projects
- mailing lists
- discussion forums
- safety standards
- safety organisations
- miscellaneous (in progress)
This repository is under permanent construction. If you would like to contribute your own links, we would be glad to hear from you. (email the webmaster)
safety courses
Lectures and courses on system safety.
[This list was assembled by Clive Boughton and a review of the courses is published in C. Boughton, "Beginning to Define a Body of Knowledge for Safety Practitioners", Seventh Australian Workshop on Industrial Experience with Safety Critical Systems and Software, ACS, pp.31-40, 2003.]
- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering - University of Queensland:
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~engg7020/DSCScourse.htm - Risk and Reliability Associates:
- University of York MSc course "Foundation to System Safety Engineering":
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/MSc/SCSE/modules/iss.html - System Safety and Software Safety Research (Nancy Leveson, MIT):
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safety.html - Safeware Corporation:
http://www.safeware-eng.com - Certified Functional Safety Expert Gouvernance Board "CFSE Safety Software Development":
http://www.cfse.org/software.htm - Engineering Professional Programs at the University of Washington:
http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/ - Software Engineering Programme at the University of Oxford:
http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk - Matt Jaffe's course on "Requirements Engineering for High Assurance
Software Development" at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:
http://salmosa.kaist.ac.kr/~rehas/English.htm - Chris Johnson's course on "Safety-Critical Systems Development" at the University of Glasgow:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/teaching/safety/default.html - "PES Hazard Study Course" at the University of Teeside:
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/hazop/html/course.htm - Safety-related courses at ERA Technology:
http://www.era.co.uk/services/courses.asp
Further courses:
- "Safety Assessment of Aircraft Systems Safety" course at Cranfield University:
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/cpd/atm-safetyassessment.htm - various courses are offered by TÜV Automotive, TÜV SÜD Group:
http://www.tuev-sued.de/iqse
safety research groups and projects
- The ADVISES Research Training Network across Europe
- Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability (DIRC) in the UK
- The SAFEDOR project on risk-based design and approval of ships.
- The SafeTRANS Competencs Cluster.
- MIT System/Software Safety Research Group
- University of Bielefeld (Networks and Distributed Systems Group)
- Delft University of Technology (Safety Science Group)
mailing lists
safety-related mailing lists
- Safety-critical mailing list forum at the University of York
forums
Discussion forums
- Peter G. Neumann's Risks Digest:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks - :
standards
Links to standardisation agencies, as well as links to
industrial and governmental safety-related standards.
- IEEE standards association:
http://standards.ieee.org -- regions: [Africa | Americas | Asia | Europe] - International Electrotechnical Commission:
http://www.iec.ch - U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Standardization Program:
http://www.dsp.dla.mil/onlinedocs.htm - UK Defence Standardization Organisation:
http://www.dstan.mod.uk - List of Laser Standards (compiled by Wesley Marshall of the Florida chapter of the System Safety Society)
http://www.system-safety.org/florida/lasers.htm - :
organisations
Organisations that are committed to system safety.
- System Safety Society: http://www.system-safety.org
- UK Health and Safety Executive:
http://www.hse.gov.uk
(covers various areas, including: air transport, health services, mining, offshore, radiation and rail safety)
miscellaneous
Companies, etc.
- Federal Aviation Authority:
http://www.faa.gov - Reliasoft:
http://www.reliasoft.org - Risknowlogy:
http://www.risknowlogy.com A company focusing on risk, reliability, and safety with useful resources like links, downloads, forums, publications on functional safety.
Further links can be found at the World-Wide Web Vitual Library on Safety-Critical Systems:
http://www.afm.sbu.ac.uk/safety
