From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b44433f10a602f3,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon Maddison Subject: IEE Event - Safety Critical Systems Vacation School, Cambridge, UK Date: 1999/07/08 Message-ID: <7m2asq$bsi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 498551531 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x27.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 193.130.180.239 Organization: Institution of Electrical Engineers X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jul 08 14:00:03 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.08 [en] (WinNT; I ;Nav) Date: 1999-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)is holding an eighth Vacation School on "Safety Critical Systems" from 5 - 8 September 1999 It has been organised by Professional Group A1(Software systems engineering) and will be held at the Moller Centre, Cambridge. The field of safety critical systems includes all those processes, products and services where a breakdown or design fault might lead to death, injury or damage to property. The School will provide participants with a firm grounding in the theory and practice of modern techniques for defining and managing the risk potential of computer-based systems. In future it is likely to become increasingly difficult for a company that has not employed such techniques to argue that it has exercised proper legal care for the safety of its products and services. The structure of the lectures will be based on the "safety lifecycle" from the International Standard IEC 61508. Separate lectures will cover various phases of the safety lifecycle. A key objective of the School will be to provide participants with an understanding of the International Standard IEC 61508. This standard is generically based and will form the basis of many application sector international standards. Therefore, an understanding of IEC 61508 will provide participants with a sound basis for dealing with the requirements of their industry sector. The management of safety as well as some of the issues relating to human factors will also be addressed. Lectures will be given by speakers from industrial, academic and regulatory organisations - several of whom have been intimately involved with the development of 61508. The School will benefit engineers who are approaching safety-related systems for the first time; who will be taking project management responsibility and wish to ensure they are aware of recent developments in this field, and those who may have an understanding in specific areas of safety-related system technology but who wish to widen their knowledge base. For further details please see: Delegates are advised to register early as this is a popular course which is always over-subscribed. For a copy of the programme and registration form please email: --------- Jon Maddison IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL Fax: +44 (0)20 7497 3633 "The IEE promotes the advancement of electrical,manufacturing and information engineering and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and ideas." Apologies if you receive this message more than once. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.