STPA: A New Hazard Analysis Technique

This chapter contains sections titled: Goals for a New Hazard Analysis Technique, The STPA Process, Identifying Potentially Hazardous Control Actions (Step 1), Determining How Unsafe Control Actions Could Occur (Step 2), Human Controllers, Using STPA on Organizational Components of the Safety Control Structure, Reengineering a Sociotechnical System: Pharmaceutical Safety and the Vioxx Tragedy, Comparison of STPA with Traditional Hazard Analysis Techniques, Summary