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Australian System Safety Conference Call for Papers and Presentations
The Australian System Safety Conference, to be held May 23-25, 2012 in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, is a joint conference between the Australian Safety Critical Systems Association (ASCSA) and the International Systems Safety Society (ISSS) Australian Chapter. This year the conference also incorporates the International System Safety Regional Conference.
The theme of this conference focuses on "System Safety... What's the Value-add?" System safety programs are always challenged by the availability of qualified resources, program budget, integration with and influence over the engineering development and planning. Yet liability protections — and regulation — require formal safety assessment of all complex systems with major hazard potential. Add-on safety programs are universally experienced to be least efficient and least effective. So, what are the successful strategies, methodologies, tools and experiences of implementing and adding value through a system safety program?
"Value," in this sense, can be viewed as increased safety or capability via "return on investment" of effort. Several seeds, or lines of enquiry, are indicative of likely interest for papers:
- Advances in methods/tools and automation
- How is safety valued?
- Software assurance "return on investment"
- Selling risk reduction and safety actions
- Communicating system safety risk
- Human factors analysis
- Budget for an ALARP safety program
- System safety program budgeting metrics
- Best skill-mix in the safety team
- Valuing system benefits against risk/cost
Call for Papers and Presentations:
The conference is accepting two types of papers:
- Refereed Papers by the conference program committee
- Industry Presentations (not subject to peer review)
For paper format details see www.crpit.com.
Key Dates:
Abstracts — November 28, 2011
Notification — December 19, 2011
Submission — February. 24,2012
Notification — March 29, 2012
Final Paper — April 30, 2012
Disciplines of Interest:
Safety Engineering
Safety Management
Software Engineering
Software Assurance
Software Safety
Human Factors
Systems Integration
Submit a Paper
All submissions can be made by using the online submission facility at www.assc2012.org. Alternatively, submissions can also be emailed to .
For more information:
Visit www.assc2012.org
Registration for RAMS 2012 is now open.
RAMS 2012 will be held from January 23 to 26, 2012 in Reno, Nevada. If you are new to the reliability and maintainability field, RAMS 2012 will provide you with the core education you need to progress. If you are an experienced professional, RAMS 2012 will provide you with cutting-edge education to keep you on top of your field.
RAMS Tutorial Certification: a two-level program, based on attendance at five core tutorials and 10 elective tutorials. Enroll at the registration area for $75.
ASQ Certifications: by special arrangement with ASQ, RAMS offers on-site Reliability Engineer (CRE), Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB), and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) Examinations. Deadline for advance registration is December 22, 2011. Walk-in registration for the CRE and SSGB examinations is noon, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 on a space available basis.
CEUs (Continuing Education Units) from IEEE: CEUs can be earned by attendance at workshops and tutorials.
Tutorials, presentations, CEUs, certifications, and networking are combined into one symposium, delivering cutting-edge information to all technical industries.
For more information, go to http://rams.org/
Conference Speakers wanted for the Car Training Institute ISO 26262 Conference
Car Training Institute (CTI) is sponsoring a conference on the ISO 26262 safety standard on June 12 - 14, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan, and is accepting applications from proposed speakers until January 20, 2012.
The safety standard ISO 26262 (Road Vehicles - Functional Safety), parts 1-9, which applies to safety-related electrical and electronic systems in passenger cars, has been published. This standard applies to systems developed or changed after November 15, 2011. Those members involved in drawing up the standard already apply draft versions of ISO 26262 to some degree. The following countries participate in the ISO: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
The standard is relevant worldwide.
ISO 26262 consists of ten sections covering the following themes:
- Vocabulary
- Management of functional safety
- Concept phase
- Product development: system level
- Product development: hardware level
- Product development: software level
- Production, operation and decommissioning
- Supporting processes
- ASIL and safety-oriented analyses
- Guideline (now approaching FDIS) ISO 26262 leaves plenty of room for interpretation and the conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to present and compare their own interpretations and concepts in the company of like-minded experts.
Appropriate conference themes
The aim of the CTI conference ISO 26262 is to present the fundamental aspects and initial implementations of the requirements for compliance to all ASILs. This will focus particularly on:
- Proposals for the introduction day
- Concept, basics and content of ISO 26262
- Methodical approach to ISO 26262
- Successful implementation of ISO 26262 in practice
- Identified challenges to the introduction and implementation of ISO 26262
- "Lessons learned" (dos and don'ts) in the application of ISO 26262
- Parallel implementation of ISO 26262 and other standards
- Questions that ISO 26262 has still not addressed
Field reports are also welcome from other sectors that already have specific standards on functional safety, such as medical technology and avionics.
For more information, go to http://www.car-training-institute.com/iso26262-usa
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