Study of incidents involving programmable electronic safety-related systems

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 597-609

  Chambers, C ^a   Croll, P R ^a   Bowell, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MANUFACTURE; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; FAULT SCHEMA; HEALTH AND SAFETY; PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRONIC SAFETY RELATED SYSTEMS; SMALL MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0032670573     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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