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Aviation Safety · Frameworks & Knowledge

A curated library of aviation and industrial safety frameworks — each presented as a concise, print-ready A4 two-pager covering purpose, structure, strengths, limitations, and key references.

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Classical barrier & defence-in-depth models

Swiss Cheese
Layered defences, active failures & latent conditions
Reason · ICAO Doc 9859 · HFACS
HDL · Reason
Hazards · Defences · Losses — organisational accident
Reason (1997) · Managing the risks of organisational accidents
HDL · Hollnagel
Barrier taxonomy — physical · functional · symbolic · incorporeal
Hollnagel (2004) · Barriers and Accident Prevention
Bow-tie
Threats → barriers → top event → barriers → consequences
CCPS · Energy Institute · ICAO SMS

Systems & management risk models

STAMP
Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes
Leveson (MIT) · STPA & CAST
BORA
Barrier and Operational Risk Analysis
Aven, Sklet, Vinnem · SINTEF / Stavanger
ARAMIS
Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries
EU Seveso II · Salvi, Debray, Delvosalle
I-RISK
Integrated Technical & Management Risk Methodology
Papazoglou, Bellamy, Hale · EU project
SAM
System–Action–Management
Murphy & Paté-Cornell · Stanford
HCL
Hybrid Causal Logic
Mosleh, Modarres, Groth, Mohaghegh · Maryland / UCLA

Cognitive control & resilience (Hollnagel lineage)

COCOM
Contextual Control Model
Hollnagel · foundation for CREAM
CREAM
Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method
Hollnagel · 2nd-generation HRA
ECOM
Extended Control Model
Hollnagel & Woods · joint cognitive systems
ETTO
Efficiency–Thoroughness Trade-Off Principle
Hollnagel · Safety-II foundations
FRAM
Functional Resonance Analysis Method
Hollnagel · Safety-II / resilience engineering
Safety I/II
Absence of failures vs. presence of success
Hollnagel (2014) · Safety-I and Safety-II
Resilience
Respond · monitor · anticipate · learn — RAG
Hollnagel, Woods, Leveson · resilience engineering

Theoretical & sociological perspectives

Normal Accidents
Interactive complexity × tight coupling
Perrow (1984) · sociology of high-risk systems
HRO
High Reliability Organisations — five principles of mindfulness
Weick & Sutcliffe · Berkeley / Michigan

Risk concept & quantification

ACU
(A, C, U) Risk Perspective — Event, Consequences, Uncertainties
Aven & Steen · University of Stavanger
ISO 31000
Principles · Framework · Process
ISO 31000:2018 · IEC/ISO 31010:2019
IEC 31010
Risk-assessment techniques — 41-method catalogue
IEC 31010:2019 · companion to ISO 31000
5×5 Matrix
Severity × likelihood heat-map — ICAO Doc 9859
ICAO · FAA Order 8040.4B · Cox (2008)
FAIR
Factor Analysis of Information Risk
Jones · Open Group Open FAIR

Hazard & failure analysis techniques

FMEA
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis — bottom-up worksheet
MIL-STD-1629A · IEC 60812 · ARP 4761A · AIAG-VDA
HAZOP
Hazard and Operability — guide-words × parameters
ICI / Kletz · IEC 61882:2016 · CCPS
FTA
Fault Tree Analysis — top-down deductive logic
Watson 1962 · NUREG-0492 · IEC 61025 · ARP 4761A

Quantitative & probabilistic methods

Monte Carlo
Stochastic simulation — sample, propagate, aggregate
Metropolis & Ulam · Vose · IEC 31010 §B.27
Bayesian Networks
DAGs + conditional probability tables — coherent inference
Pearl · Jensen & Nielsen · Fenton & Neil

Operational programmes

SMS
Safety Management System — four components, twelve elements
ICAO Annex 19 · Doc 9859 · EASA/FAA
FRMS
Fatigue Risk Management System — data-driven, performance-based
ICAO Doc 9966 · EASA ORO.FTL · FAA Part 117