Please send your abstracts for SSS'22 to mike.parsons@scsc.uk by 30th June 2021. See https://scsc.uk/e797 for more details.
Members of the SCSC are invited to review a draft TR created by the ISO/IEC's JTG1/SC42/WG3 TR on AI and functional safety.
This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.
The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 9th July 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.
The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.4 (accessible to logged in current members only)
Members of the SCSC are invited to provide comments on the extant versions of UK MOD's Defence Standard on Safety Management Requirements for Defence Systems (Def Stan 00-056 Part 1 Issue 7 and Part 2 Issue 5) which have entered their review cycle.
This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.
The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 25th June 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.
The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.3 (accessible to logged in current members only)
Members of the SCSC are invited to review a draft document created by the IEC's Advisory Committee on Safety (ACOS) relating to Risk Engineering, together with the German National Committee input to the review where they propose a position that ACOS should take.
The document offers an insight into an important discussion on the definition and use of the term 'Risk'
This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.
The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 30th June 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.
The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.1 (accessible to logged in current members only)
The latest SCSC Newsletter has just been published: https://scsc.uk/scsc-163
Articles include:
Emma Taylor - Where next for complex software-based systems?
Mick Warren - The Cyber Security Aspects of Autonomy in Aircraft
Michael Green - Architecting Wireless for Safety Critical Machine to Machine Communication
Version 3 of the GSN standard is now available. See scsc.uk/SCSC-141C.
This version's major changes include refinements to the Argument Pattern and Modular extensions and adds Confidence Argument and Dialectic extensions.
Further GSN resources are available from scsc.uk/gsn
I'm pleased to announce that after 32 months of hard work and cross discipline/cross sector discussions, the IET has published the Code of Practice: Cyber Security and Safety. This work was supported by NCSC and is available for free download from the IET website.
Software Maintenance: Legacy and Archaeology, Thursday 6 May, 2021 - Zoom, https://scsc.uk/e817
This seminar considered the issue of software maintenance for safety systems. Often we have an incomplete view of the design and code and yet changes have to be made. What are the best strategies to use? How do we understand what the existing code does? How can we make safe changes? How do we re-verify? The speakers at this event explained their methods for tackling change to legacy code.
The Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2022 (SSS'22) will be held 8-10th February 2022 in person in Bristol, UK and as an online (blended) event. It is our 30th Symposium and as such will feature special talks and a 30 year retrospective. See https://scsc.uk/e797
The SCSC help an online seminar on 13th April ( https://scsc.uk/e793 ) on safety culture. The speakers discussed real-life case studies and the results from the recent questionnaire were presented.
The SCSC is creating a new publication, "The Safety Critical Systems eJournal" for high-quality technical articles on any area of systems safety. This will be published twice a year via the SCSC web site, with a compilation hardcopy available on Amazon annually.
The focus of the journal will be on safety practice, industrial applications and standards/guidance. The editor is John Spriggs, a long-time supporter of the club and respected author and presenter.
Please consider submitting an article on your work. Submission details to be announced soon. There will also be length guidelines and style guides issued shortly.
The 29th Safety-Critical Systems Symposium was held from 9 - 11 February as an online event. The event attracted 200 delegates to view 16 live presentation and 12 pre-recorded presentations. The recordings of all presentations and the papers from the published proceedings are now available for Club members to view on the Catch up page.