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Safety Analysis: Thoughts on Methods and Experience

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Improvements in System Safety

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If one opens a book on safety and reliability engineering, one is confronted by the number of available techniques that can be used to analyse the safety and/or the reliability of a system. However in the author's view, often not enough emphasis is placed on the role that experience plays in building a safe system. In this paper I examine some of the issues associated with using common methods and the role in which experience mitigates some of their weaknesses.

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  1. Pi-Shurlok, Cambridge, UK

    Michael Ellims

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  1. Redmill Consultancy, 22 Onslow Gardens, London, N10 3JU, UK

    Felix Redmill

  2. Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Tom Anderson

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Ellims, M. (2008). Safety Analysis: Thoughts on Methods and Experience. In: Redmill, F., Anderson, T. (eds) Improvements in System Safety. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-100-8_14

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