# Readings

[ESW] = Leveson, Nancy G. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety. MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262016629. This book is available for purchase or as a free download from the MIT Press website. [Preview with Google Books]

[Safeware] = ———. Safeware: System Safety and Computers 1st Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995. ISBN: 9780201119725.

Course readings.
SES # | TOPICS | READINGS (BY THE DAY OF THE CLASS EXCEPT FOR FIRST WEEK)
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1 | Introduction, Uberlingen; Class Description | [ESW] Chapter 1. [Safeware] Chapter 1.
2 | Introduction to Accident Causality, Bhopal, Hindsight Bias | [Safeware] pp. 129–35 and 145–55.
3 | Discuss Citichem Causes, Hindsight Bias | [Safeware] pp. 39–48 and 53–88. [ESW] pp. 7–24, 36–45, 47–50, and 51–56.
4 | System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP), Systems Theory, Accident Models | [ESW] Chapter 3.
5 | More on STAMP, Systems Theory, Accident Models | [ESW] pp. 75–91 and 98–100.
6 | CAST and Accident Analysis | [ESW] Chapters 5 and 11.
7 | More on CAST | n/a
8 | Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) | [Safeware] pp. 305–11, 313–26, 327–32, and 341–4.
9 | Traditional Hazard Analysis (HA) (cont.) | n/a
10 | Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) Intro, Basic Components | [ESW] Chapter 6, pp. 181–95.
11 | STPA | [ESW] pp. 211–30.
12 | STPA (cont.) | n/a
13 | STPA and Review Projects | n/a
14 | Design for Safety | [Safeware] Chapter 16: Follensbee.
15 | Design for Safety (cont.) | [ESW] pp. 251–73.
16 | Human Factors | Automation Complacency Paper
17 | Human Factors (cont.) | [ESW] pp. 273–306.
18 | Cyber Security | Young and Leveson paper
19 | Discuss Take Home Exam | n/a
20 | Operations, Regulation | [ESW] Chapter 12.
21 | Operations, Regulation (cont.) | n/a
22 | Invited Speaker | n/a
23 | Management | [ESW] Chapter 13.
24 | SUBSAFE | n/a
25 | Present Projects | [ESW] Chapter 14.
26 | Present Projects (cont.) | n/a