Resource material, Semester 2, 2011

Note that much of the resource material is only available to students currently enrolled in the course.

Resource material:

Reading list

IEC 61508: go to UQ Library home page, do title search for Australian Standards Online, then search for 61508

UK MoD Defence Standard 00-56; 00-58, Part 1 and Part 2

UK “Yellow Book” for Engineering Safety Management on railway systems

Dangerous goods classes

Example failure rates for typical components, including human error (from Smith’s classic text on reliability)

 

Useful web sites:

Risks Digest

Australian Safety Critical Systems Club

IEC Functional Safety pages (mostly concerns 61508)

Computer-related Incidents with Commercial Aircraft

The University of Virginia Safety Cases Repository

IET guide to Managing competence for safety-related systems

University of York SCS mailing list archive

Past Australian SCS conference proceedings: see under “Australian Workshop on Industrial Experience with Safety Critical Systems and Software” in CRPIT