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Functional System Integrity Assessment

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Functional System Integrity Assessment

The illusion of LOPA | David Slater Click to download PDF

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Entropy, equilibrium, and the evolution of control: From cosmic disorder to cognitive adaptation

David Slater Click to download PDF

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The Buncefield Disaster:A Case Study in Safety Failures and Systemic Oversight

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Perception, human error and safety?

A constructed reality. | David Slater Click here to download PDF

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What is safety?

A basic instinct or a scientific definition? | David Slater Click here to download PDF

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The Buncefield Disaster:A Case Study in Safety Failures and Systemic Oversight

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The Struggle to Define Safety

An Historical Perspective | David Slater Click here to download PDF

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Functional System Integrity Assessment

The illusion of LOPA | David Slater Click here to download PDF

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“Safety” Science or Pseudo Science | David Slater Click here to download PDF

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Cortico-Columnar Brain Waves David Slater Abstract The human brain is an incredibly complex organ capable

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David Slater The History of Engineering design: Engineering is a field that has continuously evolved

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For Want of a Nail —- ITSS!

David Slater     August 30, 2023 For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want

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David Slater   August 26, 2024 The question of whether humans possess free will, or are

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Belt and Braces – The need for “Safety”

David Slater   August 18, 2024 In our quest to understand and predict the performance of

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Big Bang to Silence? -The Role of Thermodynamics in the Evolution of Complexity

David Slater      June 29, 2024 Introduction The evolution of complexity in the universe, from atoms

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Evolutionary Neuroscience and Decision-Making: Unconscious Regulation and Cognitive Bias

David Slater    June 28, 2024 Abstract The human brain’s decision-making processes are deeply rooted in

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The Current Ambulance crisis in the NHS

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David Slater       September 23, 2021  The Industrial Revolution – from peasant to problem For much

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Evolving Perspectives on ‘Human Error’

David Slater      July 16, 2021 Steve Shorrock and his co-authors have produced a very timely

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We are Human Beings – not Statistics!

David Slater       November 4, 2020 Oh no, not another abysmal failure to predict accurately, the

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The Artificial “SAFETY N” Debate

David Slater      September 25, 2020 “You don’t need to know the whole alphabet of Safety.

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Safety in Uncertain Times

David Slater       July 8, 2020 We are living in uncertain times. This leads inevitably to

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Resilience is Natural!

David Slater       June 6, 2020 These days there seems to be a false dichotomy between

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How Safe is Safe Enough?

David Slater    May 5, 2020 Now that many countries are starting to emerge, blinking, into

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Complex systems are inherently unstable – and can become unmanageable?

David Slater      August 13, 2019 Up until after the Second World War, electricity was provided

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