The Definition and Assessment of a Safety Argument

That safety cases are gaining prominence in safety regimes and regulations is a claim that, nowadays, may go more or less unchallenged. In brief, a safety case intends to make an explicit and compelling case that a system under consideration is safe for its intended use. When understood in this sense, the notion of a safety argument becomes one of the key elements of a properly formulated safety case. Herein, in what may be seen as work in …