Software Maintenance: Legacy and Archaeology, Thursday 6 May, 2021 - Zoom, https://scsc.uk/e817
This seminar considers 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 will explain their methods for tackling change to legacy code.
This seminar is free to SCSC members, see www.scsc.uk/membership
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 is holding an online seminar on 13th April ( https://scsc.uk/e793 ) on safety culture. The speakers will discuss real-life case studies and the results from the recent questionnaire will be presented. Book your place now at https://scsc.uk/e793book This event is free to SCSC members.
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.
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.
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.
We are seeking feedback on an organisation’s experience of assessing and improving Safety Culture. We have produced a short questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SCWGsurvey and would ask you to spare a few minutes to complete it.
The aim of the survey is to help organisations understand how to assess and improve Safety Culture. We will be analysing responses and will share findings anonymously through the website.
Thank you in advance for your time and help,
The SCSC Safety Culture Working Group
Questions to the WG chair at waleed.chaudhry@scsc.uk.
The Safety Culture Working Group (SCWG) is a voluntary body formed by and part of the Safety Critical Systems Club (SCSC). We aim to collate and share experiences and lessons learnt across industries. Further information at https://scsc.uk/gu.
These seminars was held online on the afternoons of 12 November and the 3 December with each attracting more than 40 participants over Zoom.
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Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions the Safety-critical Systems Symposium in February next year is now going to be held as an on-line event. The symposium will be held on the same dates as planned but will have changes to the programme. Details on the revised format, programme and booking arrangements for these events will be added to the event pages as they become available. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as required.
The Safety of Autonomous Systems Working Group (SASWG) have produced a publicity leaflet (flyer) with information about the working group and links to latest guidance document.