Programme Highlights

Day 1: Tuesday 13th February 2007

• A whole-day tutorial on A Regulation Perspective on Safety-critical Systems
  Presented by 4-sight Consulting, led by Tony Foord and Bill Gulland.

Days 2 & 3: Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th February 2007

Six sessions of papers on key topics in safety engineering and management:

• Interdependence of Safety and Security
• Demonstrating Safety
• Safety Management
• Trends in Safety Case Development
• Lessons in Safety Assessment
• High Integrity from Specification to Code

Additional Features

Tools Fair - Wednesday

• A tools fair will run throughout the day.
• Wednesday evening - The Symposium banquet with an after-dinner speech by Norman Macleod, Director, Turboteams - Rogues or Victims? Irrational behaviour in fuzzy systems

Cost and Registration

It is possible to attend the tutorial only, the paper sessions only, or both tutorial and paper sessions - with or without accommodation.

The tutorial fee includes lunch on Tuesday and a copy of the handout material from the tutorial. The non-residential symposium fee covers lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, and a copy of the proceedings. A residential option is available which includes accommodation on Wednesday night (with banquet and breakfast) for delegates attending just the two day symposium, or accommodation on Tuesday and Wednesday night (with dinner, banquet and breakfasts) for delegates attending the tutorial and the symposium.

The rates listed below apply to Club members who have paid a current subscription. Non-members, members who have not paid a current subscription, and anyone wishing to renew for 2007 should pay a supplement of £95 which covers Club membership until 31 December 2007.

VENUE

The symposium will take place at:
Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
College Green Tel: + 44 (0) 117 925 5100
Bristol, BS1 5TA Fax: + 44 (0) 117 925 1515

The hotel is situated in the centre of Bristol, next to the Cathedral. It has extensive leisure facilities including a gymnasium, sauna, steam room and large swimming pool.

There are daily direct international flights from Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt and Paris, as well as from several UK airports.

The rail journey from London (Paddington) to Bristol (Temple Meads) takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, and then 10 minutes by taxi to the hotel.

SYMPOSIUM BANQUET

Dinner on the Wednesday (14th February) will be a symposium banquet in the main suite of the Hotel. The cost of one banquet place is included in the residential packages: additional banquet places can be purchased by all delegates at a cost of £49.

REGISTRATION

Any other enquiries, should be directed to: Joan Atkinson, you can also download a copy of the programme from here.

Download a copy of the registration from here.

Programme

Day 1: Tuesday 13th February 2007

• 0830 - 0930: Registration and COFFEE
• 0930 - 1700: Tutorial: A Regulation Perspective on Safety-critical Systems
  Presented by 4-sight Consulting, led by Tony Foord and Bill Gulland

This tutorial will provide an understanding of the regulatory regime in the UK as it applies to safety-critical systems.

The common concepts and principles underpinning the regulations across industries will be identified and discussed in depth; in particular:

"So far as is reasonably practicable" (SFAIRP), and

"As low as reasonably practicable" (ALARP) with regard to their implications for compliance

In particular the requirements of safety cases will be discussed, as will safety management systems. The need for, and derivation of, appropriate criteria for acceptable risk, in relation to different hazards, will also be addressed. Regulations covered will include:

• control of major accident hazards regulations (COMAH)
• safety case regulations (SCR);
• prevention of fire and explosion, and emergency response regulations (PFEER);
• safety regulations imposed on installations, pipelines and wells;

The relationship of standards to regulations will be explored, with an emphasis on how the application of standards can provide evidence of compliance. The types of evidence required to satisfy regulators in different industries will be described and discussed.

The tutorial will also provide an opportunity for discussion of issues such as:

• How much do regulations improve safety?;
• Why do some companies have separate teams: one to satisfy the regulators and another to assure safety?;
• Who is the relevant safety regulator: CAA, HSC/E, local authority, Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), EPA, SEPA, etc.?;
• Who is responsible for compliance: operators, designers, suppliers and/or maintainers?;
• How are regulations changing as a result of European and wider International considerations?;

Day 2: Wednesday 14th February 2007

• 0900: Registration and COFFEE
• 1005: Introductions

Session 1: The Union of Safety and Security

• 1015: The Safety Assurance Provided by Security Standards
  John Ridgway, Serco Integrated Transport
• 1055: Towards a Unified Approach to Safety and Security in Automotive Systems
  Peter H Jesty, Peter Jesty Consulting Ltd, and David D Ward, MIRA Ltd
• 1135: Dependability-by-Contract
  Brian Dobbing and Samantha Lautieri, Praxis High Integrity Systems Ltd
• 1215: LUNCH

Session 2: Demonstrating Safety

• 1345: Achieving Integrated Process and Product Safety Arguments
  Ibrahim Habli and Tim Kelly, Department of Computer Science, University of York
• 1425: The Benefits of Electronic Safety Cases
  Alan Newton and Andrew Vickers, Praxis High Integrity Systems Ltd
• 1505: TEA

Session 3: Safety Management

• 1535: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Causal Factors in Major Maritime Accidents in the USA and Canada (1996-2006)
  Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, and Michael Holloway, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
• 1615: A Proactive Approach to Enhancing Safety Culture
  Liz Beswick and Jonathan Kettleborough, British Energy
• 1655: Comparing and Contrasting some of the approaches in UK and USA Safety Assessment Processes
  Richard Maguire, SE Validation Limited
• 1735: Close
• 1930 for 2000: BANQUET
  After-dinner speech by Norman Macleod, Director, Turboteams - Rogues or Victims? Irrational behaviour in fuzzy systems. Norman has been working in the design of training in aviation for 30 years and has concentrated on aspects of safety-critical human performance for 15. He is specifically interested in how to train people to act safely.

Day 3: Thursday 15th February 2007

Session 4: Trends in Safety Case Development

• 0900: Safety Case Composition Using Contracts - refinements based on Feedback from an Industrial Case Study
  Jane Fenn and Richard Hawkins, BAE SYSTEMS, Phil Williams, General Dynamics (United Kingdom) Ltd., and Tim Kelly, University of York
• 0940: The Sum Of Its Parts
  John Spriggs, NATS (En-Route) plc
• 1020: COFFEE

Session 5: Lessons in Safety Assessment

• 1050: Independently Assessing Legacy Safety Systems
  Paul Edwards, Andrew Furse and Andy Vickers, Praxis High Integrity Systems Ltd
• 1130: Safety Assessments of Air Traffic Systems
  Rodney May, Rodmay Associates
• 1210: CARA: A Human Reliability Assessment Tool for Air Traffic Managment - Technical Basis and Preliminary Architecture
  Barry Kirwan, Eurocontrol, France, and Huw Gibson, University of Birmingham
• 1250: LUNCH

Session 6: High Integrity from Specification to Code

• 1410: AMBERS: Improving Requirements Specification Through Assertive Models and SCADE/DOORS Integration
  Marcelin Fortes da Cruz, Airbus, and Paul Raistrick, Esterel Technologies
• 1450: Formalising C and C++ for Use in High Integrity Systems
  Colin O'Halloran and Clive Pygott, QinetiQ
• 1530: Closing Remarks
• 1535: TEA and Close of the Symposim

All enquiries should be directed to: Joan Atkinson.