The SCSC publishes a range of documents:
The club publishes its newsletter Safety Systems three times a year in February, June and October. The newsletter is distributed to paid-up members and can be made available in electronic form for inclusion on corporate members' intranet sites.
The proceedings of the annual symposium, held each February since 1993, are published in book form. Since 2013 copies can be purchased from Amazon.
The club publishes the Safety-critical Systems eJournal (ISSN 2754-1118) containing high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on the subject of systems safety.
If you are interested in being an author or a reviewer please see the Call for Papers.
All publications are available to download free by current SCSC members (please log in first), recent books are available as 'print on demand' from Amazon at reasonable cost.
This document is intended to provide guidance for the assurance of services in a safety context. It was produced by the SCSC Service Assurance Working Group (SAWG), 2017-2023.
This book provides guidance on the assurance of services when there are safety implications of those services. Tangible examples of such services are air traffic control, a maritime satellite service handling emergency distress calls or an ambulance dispatch service. A set of principles for assuring services is given; guidance is then provided on how to apply the principles through objectives and how to address the challenges that may be encountered. Mitigation methods and techniques to address the specific risks of service situations are covered. Analyses are outlined for identifying undesired behaviours of services. The role of service assurance requirements is explained through the service definition, service architecture and the agreements made at service interfaces, often using Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The approach draws upon concepts from modular assurance and illustrates the use of supplementary assurance (‘wrappers’) to manage the variety of assurance positions presented by services.