Course description
Safety Case Development and Review (SCDR)
This course addresses the production and assessment of safety cases within safety projects. It covers:
- The role, purpose and typical content of safety cases;
- Explains how safety case arguments and evidence can be selected;
- Relates the development and maintenance of safety cases to the engineering lifecycle;
- Details how safety case arguments can be critically assessed;
- Explains the regulatory context for a safety case development regime.
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Upcoming start dates
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for:
- Practitioners across all domains including aerospace, military, railway, automotive, civil nuclear, civil maritime, medical devices and healthcare;
- Developers of equipment safety cases during design for software, hardware, procedures, systems and/or platforms;
- Developers of safety cases for operational safety and disposal;
- Reviewers of safety cases within an organisation or as an independent activity;
- Developers and reviewers of changes to existing safety-critical / safety-related equipment and operations;
- Project managers where development of a safety case is a significant element of projects they manage;
- Regulators of safety critical domains.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of system safety terminology and lifecycle via prior learning or industrial experience. It is useful for you to have taken our Foundations of System Safety Engineering course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Comprehend the role, purpose and typical content of a safety case;
- Devise and present clear safety arguments using both text and graphical notations (particularly the Goal Structuring Notation);
- Understand the risks, strengths and weaknesses of safety cases;
- Recognise and distinguish common forms of safety arguments;
- Understand how to review and evaluate a safety case;
- Understand how to undertake safety case maintenance throughout lifecycle;
- Understand the emerging concepts in safety cases.
Course delivery details
During the teaching week there will be a combination of lecture materials and case studies to explore. The case studies give you the chance to work through an example to reinforce your learning from the lectures.
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