Safety Critical Systems



Safety Critical Systems

Safety critical systems are those systems whose failure can cause great loss. These losses can involve the losing life, harm to the environment and major loss to property etc. there are many well known examples in which the critical safety malfunction lead to major loss. These examples cover the cases of air craft flight control, industrial automation, medical equipments and nuclear systems etc. Many modern information systems are becoming safety critical in order to avoid life and financial losses in case of their failures (Dunn, 2003).

Acceptable level of Failures for safety critical systems

There are several elements ...