Title
System Safety in an IT Service Organization.
Abstract
Within Logica UK, over 30 IT service projects are considered safety-related. These include operational IT services for airports, railway infrastructure asset management, nationwide radiation monitoring and hospital medical records services. A recent internal audit examined the processes and documents used to manage system safety on these services and made a series of recommendations for improvement. This paper looks at the changes and the challenges to introducing them, especially where the service is provided by multiple units supporting both safety and non-safety related services from multiple locations around the world. The recommendations include improvements to service agreements, improved process definitions, routine safety assessment of changes, enhanced call logging, improved staff competency and training, and increased safety awareness. Progress is reported as of today, together with a road map for implementation of the improvements to the service safety management system. A proposal for service assurance levels (SALs) is discussed as a way forward to cover the wide variety of services and associated safety risks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-0-85729-133-2_6
ADVANCES IN SYSTEMS SAFETY
Keywords
Field
DocType
internal audit,management system,system safety,medical records
Service assurance,Infrastructure asset management,Competence (human resources),System safety,Systems engineering,Road map,Internal audit,Computerized maintenance management system,Management system,Process management,Business
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mike Parsons100.34
Simon Scutt200.34