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IET 2nd International Conference on System Safety 2007 ***
London,
UK: 22 - 24 October 2007
The IET International Conference on System Safety 2007 will be held at
Savoy Place on 22 - 24 October 2007. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity
has accepted an invitation to be the Conference Chairman for 2007. (see
http://www-admin.iee.org/subdomains/conferences/safety/)
In addition, Carl will be presenting a Tutorial
on Monday 22 October 2007 summarised here:
An Introduction to Human Factors and System Safety
Human Factors are often cited as the cause of hazards within safety-related
systems; yet system safety cases often contain no mention of them. Conversely,
system operators or users often provide substantial mitigation between
hazards and their associated accidents; yet this is also often overlooked.
If human factors risks are not considered, a system will not achieve the
required level of integrity. If human factors mitigations are not considered,
the technical system components may be over engineered at additional cost
to achieve a target level of safety.
The tutorial is aimed at providing engineers and project managers in
a range of sectors (e.g. Defence, Aerospace, Rail etc.) with an appreciation
of the human factors and ergonomics issues relating to safe systems development.
The tutorial will provide an overview of some of the main human factors
tools and techniques required for designing safer systems and exercises
will provide participants with consolidation of the theory presented.
At the end the tutorial, participants will not be human factors specialists;
however, the aim is that they will have a better understanding of how
to achieve safer human factors designs and better plan for human factors
integration within a safety-related systems development programme.
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Australian Safety Critical Systems Association (aSCSa) Conference 2007
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Adelaide,
Australia: 29 - 31 August 2007
The aSCSa Conference 2007 will be held in Adelaide 29 - 31 August 2007.
Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity has accepted an invitation to present
a Tutorial entitled An Introduction to Human Factors and System Safety
and a Keynote Presentation entitled Success and Failure: Human as Hazard,
Human as Hero at the conference. (see http://www.safety-club.org.au/).
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Tutorial - An Introduction to Human Factors and System Safety ***
Canberra,
Australia: 28 August 2007
Dr Carl Sandom, iSys Integrity, UK
Australian National University (Building 108, Room N101)
12:15 PM to 4:15 PM
The Australian Safety Critical Systems Association, in association
with the Austrailian Computer Society, is pleased to be able to offer
this tutorial in Human Factors and System Safety from Dr Carl Sandom.
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Ada Conference 2006 ***
Manchester, UK: 28 March 2006
The annual Ada Conference was held at Manchester and Carl
Sandom gave a Keynote presentation to provide software developers with
a broad overview of what an Independent Safety Auditor (ISA), safety regulator
or third-party might look for when evaluating safety-critical software.
Click to See the Video
Safety-Critical Software: Looking for an Argument
Time: 25:35 mins Format: WMV
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Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2006 ***
Bristol, UK: 7-9 February 2006
The annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium was held in
brostol, UK. Carl Sandom and Derek Fowler (JDF Consultancy Ltd) gave a
Tutorial presentation entitled System Safety Requirements for People,
Procedures and Equipment. The tutorial provided systems engineers
and managers with a practical introduction to the specification, validation
and verification of safety requirements for complex systems containing
hardware, software and human subsystems. (PDF
of Paper)
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New Human Factors Book Published for Engineers ***
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Human Factors
for Engineers
C. Sandom and R. S. Harvey
(Eds.)
Product code: NS 032
ISBN: 0 86341 329 3
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 392pp.
Price: £49 / $89
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Scope: The book Human Factors
for Engineers introduces the reader to the subject of Human Factors
and provides practical and pragmatic advice to assist engineers in designing
interactive systems that are safer, more secure and easier to use - thereby
reducing accidents due to human error, increasing system integrity and
enabling more efficient process operations. The book discusses human factors
integration methodology and reviews the issues that underpin consideration
of key topics such as human error, automation and human reliability assessment.
The book also examines design considerations including control room and
interface design and acceptance and verification considerations.
Contents: Human Factors and cost benefits.
Human factors integration. Humans: skills, capabilities and limitations.
The human factors toolkit. Task analysis. Automation and human work. To
engineer is to err. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of human error
in risk assessment. Control room design. Human-computer interfaces: a
principled approach to design. Usability. HF verification and validation
(V & V). The application of simulators in systems evaluation. Safety
assessment and human factors.
Readership: Aimed at practising systems
engineers, engineering managers, project managers and also engineering
students from undergraduate to postgraduate level.
Related links:
Full Contents
List in Acrobat®PDF format
For an independent review of the book
see http://i.f.alexander.users.btopenworld.com/reviews/sandom_and_harvey.htm
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Human Factors Professional Network Launch ***
Professional Networks, or PNs, are
world-wide groups of people with common technical and professional interests
initiated and coordinated by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
The IEE Human Factors Engineering Professional
Network (HFE PN) was launched at Savoy Place, London on Thursday 4 July
2002. Magdalen Galley and Prof. Brian Mellitt, the Presidents of the Ergonomics
Society and the IEE, were there to endorse the HFE PN launch aims to bring
the Human Factors and Engineering disciplines closer together.
A keynote presentation was given by Dr. Barry Kirwan,
Eurocontrol, entitled 'Human factors and reliability - making a difference?'.
The launch event was well attended and a Networking Buffet was held immediately
after the event.
The IEE HFE PN Executive Committee Chairman is
Dr. Carl Sandom, Principal Consultant for iSys Integrity who specialise
in system safety, human factors and training. Further details about IEE
HFE PN activities and events can be found at: http://www.iee.org/OnComms/pn/humanfactors/
or by contacting Carl at: Carl@iSys-Integrity.com
Pictured left-to-right are:
Magdalen Galley (President Ergonomics Society), Prof. Brian Mellitt (President
IEE), Dr. Carl Sandom (Chairman Human Factors Engineering PN) and Dr.
Barry Kirwan (Eurocontrol).
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