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The Australian System Safety Conference 2017 will be held in Sydney 31 May - 02 June 2017. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity accepted an invitation to present a Keynote Speech on Safety Competence and a Tutorial entitled 'An Introduction to Human Factors and Safety'. (For full details see http://assc2017.org/).

Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity was the Lead Author of the new IET Code of Practice on Competence for Safety-Related Systems Practitioners. This new code of practice is designed to help companies to assess and maintain the competence of their engineering staff particularly in safety-critical areas and industries. It sets out the competencies expected and evidence required to prove competence in specific tasks and helps organisations create schemes for monitoring and measuring the competencies of its employees.

iSys Integrity were recently awarded IET Centre of Excellence status for consistently demonstrating the quality standards required by the IET for training delivery. Dr. Carl Sandom told Tony Hicks, the Learning Development Manager at the IET:

"For small businesses such as ours, the IET Centre of Excellence scheme is crucial as it provides customers with a credible endorsement of the high degree of quality, competence and professionalism of our courses and our trainers. I'm extremely proud of becoming the very first Functional Safety IET Centre of Excellence provider and it has already enabled us to provide Safety Competence Management training to a company for whom independent accreditation was an essential requirement."

Dr. Carl Sandom will be Chairing the IET Systems Safety and Cyber Security Conference 2016 at Savoy Place, London, UK.

Dr. Carl Sandom will be presenting and Chairing the HF4Eng Course (19 - 20 April 2016). The course will be held at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel, UK.

Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity is presenting a paper entitled Competence Considerations for Systems Safety at the Safety Critical Systems Club 24th Annual Symposium

Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity is the recipient of the System Safety Society International Award for 2012.

The citation from International System Safety Society reads:

"The award is presented annually to an individual or an organization for their outstanding achievement or performance of special service in the advancement of the discipline of System Safety in a country other than the United States of America."<

The 7th IET System Safety Conference 20121 will be held at The Radisson Blu, Edinburgh, UK on 15 - 18 October 2012.

Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. has accepted an invitation to be the Conference Chairman for 2012. (see: www.theiet.org/system-safety).

The 6th IET System Safety Conference 2011 will be held at The Holiday Inn, Birmingham, UK on 20- 22 September 2011. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. has accepted an invitation to be the Conference Chairman for 2011. (see http://www-admin.iee.org/subdomains/conferences/safety/).

Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. will be presenting a Software Systems Safety Course in collaboration with K2B International (see: http://www.defencesummitasia.com/softwaresystemsafety/index.html#5 for details).
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The 29th International System Safety Conference 2011 will be held in the MGM Hotel in downtown Las Vegas on 8 - 12 August 201. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. accepted an invitation to present a Tutorial entitled Human Factors and Safety Engineering (see http://www.issc2011.org/).

The Australian System Safety Conference 2011 will be held in Melbourne 25 - 27 May 2011. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity accepted an invitation to present a Keynote Speech and a Tutorial entitled Human Factors and Safety Engineering. (see http://www.asssc.org/conference/default.htm).

The 28th International System Safety Conference 2010 was held in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Minneapolis on 30 Aug - 03 Sep 2010. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. accepted an invitation to be a Keynote speaker at the conference and to present an "Introduction to Human Factors and System Safety" tutorial.

Here are some pictures from the conference:

L. Carl presenting his keynote presentation.
M. Carl taking questions from the conference.
R. Bob Fletcher, International Chair ISSC 28, presenting Carl with a US flag flown outside Congress in appreciation for his keynote presentation.

The 5th IET International System Safety Conference 2010 will be held at Savoy Place on 18- 20 October 2010. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity Ltd. has accepted an invitation to be the Conference Chairman for 2010. (see http://www-admin.iee.org/subdomains/conferences/safety/).

The aSCSa Conference 2007 was held in Adelaide 29 - 31 August 2007. Dr. Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity accepted an invitation to present a Tutorial entitled An Introduction to Human Factors and System Safety and a Keynote Presentation entitled Success and Failure: Human as Hazard, Human as Hero at the conference. (see http://www.safety-club.org.au/).

The Australian Safety Critical Systems Association, in association with the Austrailian Computer Society, offered a tutorial in Human Factors and System Safety from Dr Carl Sandom of iSys Integrity.

The annual Ada Conference was held at Manchester and Carl Sandom gave a Keynote presentation entitled 'Safety-Critical Software: Looking for an Argument' to provide software developers with a broad overview of what an Independent Safety Auditor (ISA), safety regulator or third-party might look for when evaluating safety-critical software.

The annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium was held in Bristol, UK. Carl Sandom and Derek Fowler (JDF Consultancy Ltd) gave a Tutorial presentation entitled System Safety Requirements for People, Procedures and Equipment. The tutorial provided systems engineers and managers with a practical introduction to the specification, validation and verification of safety requirements for complex systems containing hardware, software and human subsystems. (PDF of Paper)

Scope: The book Human Factors for Engineers introduces the reader to the subject of Human Factors and provides practical and pragmatic advice to assist engineers in designing interactive systems that are safer, more secure and easier to use - thereby reducing accidents due to human error, increasing system integrity and enabling more efficient process operations. The book discusses human factors integration methodology and reviews the issues that underpin consideration of key topics such as human error, automation and human reliability assessment. The book also examines design considerations including control room and interface design and acceptance and verification considerations.

Contents: Human Factors and cost benefits. Human factors integration. Humans: skills, capabilities and limitations. The human factors toolkit. Task analysis. Automation and human work. To engineer is to err. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of human error in risk assessment. Control room design. Human-computer interfaces: a principled approach to design. Usability. HF verification and validation (V & V). The application of simulators in systems evaluation. Safety assessment and human factors.

Readership: Aimed at practising systems engineers, engineering managers, project managers and also engineering students from undergraduate to postgraduate level.

Related links:

Full Contents List in Acrobat®PDF format

For an independent review of the book see http://i.f.alexander.users.btopenworld.com/reviews/sandom_and_harvey.htm

Human Factors for Engineers
C. Sandom and R. S. Harvey (Eds.)
Product code: NS 032
ISBN: 0 86341 329 3
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 392pp.
Price: £49 / $89

Professional Networks, or PNs, are world-wide groups of people with common technical and professional interests initiated and coordinated by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).

The IEE Human Factors Engineering Professional Network (HFE PN) was launched at Savoy Place, London on Thursday 4 July 2002. Magdalen Galley and Prof. Brian Mellitt, the Presidents of the Ergonomics Society and the IEE, were there to endorse the HFE PN launch aims to bring the Human Factors and Engineering disciplines closer together.

A keynote presentation was given by Dr. Barry Kirwan, Eurocontrol, entitled 'Human factors and reliability - making a difference?'. The launch event was well attended and a Networking Buffet was held immediately after the event.

The IEE HFE PN Executive Committee Chairman is Dr. Carl Sandom, Principal Consultant for iSys Integrity who specialise in system safety, human factors and training. Further details about IEE HFE PN activities and events can be found at: http://www.iee.org/OnComms/pn/humanfactors/ or by contacting Carl at: Carl@iSys-Integrity.com

Pictured left-to-right are:
Magdalen Galley (President Ergonomics Society), Prof. Brian Mellitt (President IEE), Dr. Carl Sandom (Chairman Human Factors Engineering PN) and Dr. Barry Kirwan (Eurocontrol).