The Need for New Paradigms in Safety Engineering
The world and technology are changing, but these changes are not reflected in our safety engineering approaches. Many of the underlying assumptions of the traditional techniques no longer hold for the complex, high-tech systems being built today. We need new models of accident causality and engineer...
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| author | Leveson, Nancy G. |
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| description | The world and technology are changing, but these changes are not reflected in our safety engineering approaches. Many of the underlying assumptions of the traditional techniques no longer hold for the complex, high-tech systems being built today. We need new models of accident causality and engineering techniques built on them that handle these new systems and problems. An example of a new model, based on systems theory rather than reliability theory, is described and some uses of such a model are discussed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/598132022-10-01T18:20:36Z The Need for New Paradigms in Safety Engineering Leveson, Nancy G. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Leveson, Nancy G. Leveson, Nancy G. The world and technology are changing, but these changes are not reflected in our safety engineering approaches. Many of the underlying assumptions of the traditional techniques no longer hold for the complex, high-tech systems being built today. We need new models of accident causality and engineering techniques built on them that handle these new systems and problems. An example of a new model, based on systems theory rather than reliability theory, is described and some uses of such a model are discussed. 2010-11-04T15:23:26Z 2010-11-04T15:23:26Z 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferenceItem 978-1-84882-349-5 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59813 Leveson, N. G. "The Need for New Paradigms in Safety Engineering." Safety-Critical Systems: Problems, Process and Practice (2009): 3-20. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Brighton, UK, 3–5 February 2009 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-349-5_1 Safety-Critical Systems: Problems, Process and Practice Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Springer-Verlag Nancy Leveson via Barbara Williams |
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