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.
The members of the Safety Critical Systems Club (SCSC) represent a wide range of complex and engineered systems. The role of many organisations is to specify, design, make and assure complex safety critical systems, as well as to operate these systems and learn from experience. These systems are developed for and operated within sectors including defence, nuclear power generation, oil and gas, transport (aviation, marine and rail), automobiles, health care and others.
This position paper aims to:
While the guidance in this paper may apply equally to all safety domains, it focuses on the safety of designing, manufacturing, assuring and operating complex safety critical systems.