Another day, another course

11/10/2015

  
ZEIT8236 System safety 2015 redux

Off to teach a course in system safety for Navy, whic ends up as a week spent at the old almer mater. Hopefully all transport legs will be uneventful. 🙂

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5 responses to Another day, another course

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    Mark 26/10/2015 at 1:50 am

    You may be interested in this article:

    http://commons.erau.edu/ijaaa/vol2/iss4/4/

    It’s a systems-thinking analysis of the MH17 disaster written by Dr. Simon Bennett at the Univ of Leicester.

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      Matthew Squair 26/10/2015 at 8:28 am

      Thanks!

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      Matthew Squair 29/10/2015 at 7:04 pm

      I finally got around to reading it and it’s an interesting paper, does suffer just a little from some fairly obvious axe grinding but interesting nonetheless. Would be interesting to try and model the mentioned case studies using Nancy Levesons techniques

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        Mark 30/10/2015 at 5:24 am

        I’ve just started reading her work on “Engineering a Safer World.” I’m not far enough into it to comment yet. What I’ve read about systems analysis thinking in aviation is that it’s meant to be “predictive.” In other words, going beyond the “proactive” flight data analysis into a newer form of safety. I think it’s also meant to include quality improvement as well. Right now I’m thinking being predictive may be impossible. For example, why not apply it to the stock market and make a fortune? In any case, I need to learn more about it.

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        Matthew Squair 30/10/2015 at 8:08 am

        I see her work as part of a more general paradigm shift in system safety, we talk a good game but when our tools (like fault trees and FMEAs) are determinedly reductionist exactly how much ‘systems thinking’ are we doing? Nancy’s taking an open systems/cybernetics approach and developing toolsets to support that as I see it.

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