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.
This was held on 5th December 2019 in London. This event featured 7 speakers from diverse sectors explaining how to create, how to measure, and importantly, how to maintain a strong and effective safety culture within an organisation. Full details at: https://scsc.uk/e631.
Lloyds Register Foundation and the Royal Academy of Engineering have got together for a programme called "Safer Complex Systems".
They are seeking case studies of novel safe systems approaches, and are offering significant funding to develop the work. See this link (the deadline has been extended).
Thanks to everyone who completed the short survey on the Safety-Critical Systems Club to help us move forward. The survey has been designed with all systems safety professionals in mind and you don't need to be a member of the club to do it.
The following members won the prizes in the draw:
Steve Billett - 1 day at SSS including accommodation.
Steve heads up the systems and software business unit within Ebeni - a niche engineering consultancy that support clients in developing high integrity systems in markets that demand the highest levels of rigour and expertise.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-billett-5937264, www.ebeni.com
John Hanson - 1 free seminar or tutorial of your choice.
John is a system safety specialist at BAE Systems, Warton, working on future programmes. He is also a STEM volunteer, working with local schools.
Graham Sutherland, Ray Matthews and Waleed Chaudhry - Free annual membership.
Many congratulations to all our winners!
Data can directly cause systems to behave anomalously (e.g. sensor data in the Boeing 737 MAX) or it can cause humans to take inappropriate actions leading to harm. On November 14th in London the event "Data Safety Evolution" was an opportunity to hear about the issues data can cause in safety systems and look at developments in the area. It will be useful for safety engineers and safety managers, across any sector that uses data in a safety context, i.e. most of us! Full details at: scsc.uk/e651
SCSC members have the opportunity to contribute to the standards making process by responding to Invitation to Review selected drafts of IEC standards, Technical Specifications (TS) and Technical Reports (TR). This opportunity is only available to SCSC members, who must be logged in to access the draft document. The first of these is IEC TS 61508-3-2 ED1: Requirements and Guidance in the use of mathematical and logical techniques for establishing exact properties of software and its documentation. Deadline for Comments: 10/11/2019. The instructions for comment can be found at: scsc.uk/rp142.2