Safety cases - a modern approach to communicate your risk management strategy

Safety cases are structured bodies of information that are crucial to delivering today's dependable systems. The safety case should convincingly argue that a particular system or service will meets its safety requirements, due to the way in which it is designed, operated and managed. The safety case comprises claims, arguments and the supporting evidence.

Many industries have already adopted a safety case approach, and in other sectors they are used to reduce project risk by effectively communicating the risk management approach to a range of relevant stakeholders. Where structured arguments are used to demonstrate and communicate other high integrity requirements apart from safety, these are sometimes known as Assurance Cases or Dependability Cases.

Adelard's ASCE is the leading commercial system for the development and management of assurance cases and safety cases. It is in use in many industry sectors, worldwide. With the launch of version 4, we bring new levels of usability and a wider range of interfaces to source evidence and change tracking. ASCE has improved reporting and printing capability to MS Word, HTML and PDF. It also has new facilities to support the development of modular safety and assurance cases. Further details about ASCE v4.1, including a list of business benefits of upgrading to this new version

Meeting the challenge of safety cases

Today's complex systems are often sophisticated socio-technical systems, integrating data and services from a wide range of sources. They are developed and delivered by diverse teams of designers, engineers, operators and managers, working hard to ensure the system reflects changes in customer requirements and in their operational environment.

Managing the safety case and keeping it in step with the system is often a significant challenge on a project. At the same time, the safety case must clearly communicate to the range of stakeholders how and why the system is adequately safe.

Don't let your safety case become a project risk

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• ASCE version 4
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Why ASCE can help you

ASCE is a software tool (screenshot) to simplify the creation and management of your safety case, helping to reduce project and system risk through effective and straightforward communication of the safety argument and its associated evidence. It is an industry standard, used by hundreds of organizations world-wide.

ASCE lets you build robust arguments using recognised notations such as Claims-Arguments-Evidence (CAE) and Goal Structuring Notation (GSN).

It targets problems with a proven approach to help you deliver robust safety cases. ASCE manages information complexity and communicates your argument to your stakeholders. Tell me more about the benefits for different project roles.

As an ASCE user, you're backed up by two decades of Adelard's industry leading consultancy and research.

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