SAND: Safety Assessment for New Air Traffic Concept Exploration (PSAM-0032)

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There are frequently calls for safety to start early in the life cycle of a system, and in particular at the design stage. But how early is early? And is there a point at which, if too early, there is little real added value, or even a negative effect due to safety 'constraining' unnecessarily the creative design process? This paper concerns an attempt to carry out safety assessment during the concept exploration phase of potential new systems for the Air Traffic Management (ATM) industry, based at an ATM research centre. The safety assessment process or framework is called SAND — Safety Assessment for New Designs, and comprises non-quantitative approaches to safety investigation. The main emphasis of SAND is to explore the concepts and determine how to make them safer. At a deeper level, the approach is there to help avoid the occurrence of latent failures and conditions in system design, and to engender a better safety understanding by the designers that will pervade the whole system

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