SCSC is a partner of SafeComp 2021, which will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of York, 7th - 10th Sept 2021. The registration for this year's conference is now live. The conference is hybrid so you can join online or in-person (COVID-19 allowing). We hope to see lots of SCSC members in York (or online) for four days of workshops, keynotes, papers, exhibition and more. Student discounts are available.
Register here: https://safecomp2021.hosted.york.ac.uk/index.php/registration/
An Invitation to Submit a Paper to the new journal has been issued, see the Call for Papers. Note that authors of papers published in the journal will be offered a year's free membership of the Safety-Critical Systems Club!
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.
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.
"Exceeded my expectations: very interesting and informative presentations and lots to follow up."
"worked well"
"Thank you for your continuing effort to deliver these events"
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.
The SCSC ACWG has established a sub-working group to review the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) standard [scsc-141B].
The activity will address updates to the modular notation, add notation for Argument Claim Points (ACP), add information on the relationship between GSN and SACM, consider notation additions for Dialectic arguments, and perform a general review.
This is an opportunity to address any user feedback on the current version and add topics for consideration in future versions. Please provide any feedback using the GSN Forum