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This paper is about how, based on my experience, I think that a prudent company should manage its safety-related information systems within an area of safety risk such as the ‘rail’ domain.
The systems I have experience of are management information (database) systems and are only ‘safety-related’ and not ‘safety-critical’ — they are not control systems and there is always a human in the decision-making process. The companies I have worked for are only in the foothills of system safety.
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— Railway Applications: Software for Railway Control and Protection Systems. British Standards Institute
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Tillotson, J. (2001). System Safety and Management Information Systems. In: Redmill, F., Anderson, T. (eds) Aspects of Safety Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0713-2_2
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