Abstract
This paper provides guidance on the development of Safety Cases as a means of demonstrating the safety of a safety-related service or new/modified system. It is aimed at those, employed on projects or in service-provider organisations, which have to:
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Produce Safety Cases — eg safety practitioners;
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Approve Safety Cases — eg programme managers and senior line management within service-provision organisations;
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Review Safety Cases — eg safety department staff.
The aim is to achieve sound, well-presented Safety Cases through the adoption of a logical, rigorous, consistent and accurate approach that is based on good safety practice.
The paper is based on the experience of EUROCONTROL in the development of Safety Cases, and captured in its recently revised Safety Case Development Manual. Although the material is orientated towards the business of EUROCONTROL (ie Air Traffic Management) we believe that is readily adaptable to other application sectors.
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Fowler, D., Tiemeyer, B. (2006). Safety Case Development - a Practical Guide. In: Redmill, F., Anderson, T. (eds) Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-447-3_6
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