Safety Through Exhortation
By George A. Peters [Editor’s note: This editorial originally appeared in Vol 3 Issue 4 of Hazard Prevention (now Journal of System Safety) in 1966. It has been reformatted from…
Hazarding an Opinion: Why a Systems Safety Society?
by Donald M. Layton [Editor’s note: This editorial originally appeared in Vol 6 Issue 5 of Hazard Prevention (now Journal of System Safety) in June-July 1970. It has been reformatted…
The Challenge to System Safety
by Brian M. Moriarty [Editor Note (2022): This President’s message originally appeared in Vol 15 Issue 6 of Hazard Prevention (now Journal of System Safety) in Sept-Oct 1979. It has…
Taking Software Seriously
by Peter B. Ladkin [Editor Note: This Opinion piece originally appeared in Vol 41 Issue 3 of Journal of System Safety in May-June 2005. It has been reformatted, but otherwise…
What Makes an Outstanding System Safety Professional?
by John Livingston and Chad Thrasher [Editor’s note: This Opinion piece originally appeared in Vol 40 Issue 1 of Journal of System Safety in January-February 2004. It has been reformatted…
A Personal Perspective on System Safety
By George A. Peters, Esq., P.E., C.S.PPeters & Peters, Santa Monica, California, USA [Editor Note: This essay was originally published in Volume 32 Issue 4 of Hazard Prevention (now Journal…
From Our Readers
by: Bill Vesely, Science Applications International Corp. Joseph Fragola, Science Applications International Corp. Michael Stamatelatos, NASA Headquarters [Editor Note: This letter to the editor was originally published in Volume 38…
What’s Wrong with the Numbers? A Questioning Look at Probabilistic Risk Assessment
by Jack Crawford [Editor Note: This Opinion piece was originally published in Volume 37 Issue 3 of the Journal of System Safety) in 4Q 2001. The article has been reformatted,…