SARS Body of Knowledge
The Safety and Reliability Society aims to provide an evolving Body of Knowledge for professionals.
Please follow the links below:
List of other sites containing Safety and Reliability reference material
This links to a mindmap of various relevant resources
ALARP - explanation (HSE Website) See Annex 3
Further guidance is given and in a suite of three guidance documents:
Policy and Guidance on reducing risks as low as reasonably practicable in Design
RSSB: Rail Risk Portal
Site dedicated to railway risk and in particular the risk resources provided by RSSB.
Link: www.safetyriskmodel.co.uk
'Taking safe decisions' - how Britain's railways take decisions that affect safety
Describes the principles applied to UK railway industry decisions which impact upon safety. Contains framework and worked examples.
Link: www.rssb.co.uk/safety/safety_strategies/sdmoukr.asp
Office of Rail Regulation Risk Management Guidance
Provides high-level guidance and general principles on the application of so far as is reasonably practicable (SFAIRP) and cost benefit analysis (CBA) to railway safety.
Operators Guide to Human Factors in Aviation
The Flight Safety Foundation Operators Guide to Human Factors in Aviation (OGHFA) is now hosted on SKYbrary
and contains over 100 articles and visual aids...
Read the Guide: http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Portal:OGHFA
For more information visit the aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary: http://www.skybrary.aero
Risk and Regulation Advisory Council (RRAC)
http://www.berr.gov.uk/deliverypartners/list/rrac/index.html
List of 270 Standards for Reliability in excel format