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 book is about the SCSC Newsletter – a publication that has now been producing insights, commentary and new thinking on systems safety for over 30 years. Since the club’s inception in 1991, many thoughtful, important and humorous articles from many authors have been included in its usual three issues per year.
The articles included here have been chosen by the editors as representative of the high-quality content that has been consistently maintained over the years. They are organised into themes to give each group of articles coherency; within the group the articles are split out for each year with a ‘Year in System Safety’ introduction to give some historical context. Most of the original authors have provided a short postscript to their article to give extra context and explain progress in the intervening years. The URLs referenced by the papers were valid at the time of original publication, but some are no longer active.
The book has three forewords: two by past Directors of the club, Prof. Tom Anderson and Prof. Tim Kelly, and one by Prof. John McDermid of the University of York, who, in his many roles over the years, might be termed the ‘grandfather of systems safety in the UK’. These provide a good perspective on the book, the club and systems safety.