[SystemSafety] A small taste of what we're up against

[Paul Sherwood]

On 2018-10-29 07:38, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> On 2018-10-29 00:24 , Les Chambers wrote:
>> 
>> The most potent drivers of safe software are:
>> 1. The skills and motivation of the people writing the code
>> 2. The processes they use to cooperate
>> 
> Something you will hear often from management specialists is that
> 
> the most potent driver of safe <anything> is that assurance of safety
> is a board-level priority,
> with a specific director whose responsibility it is.

I'm a board director, attempting at least to **understand** what's 
involve in assurance of safety. Recently I was asked to sign a document 
committing my company to acceptance of risks that I could neither 
mitigate nor cover via insure. When I pushed back, I was told by the 
document's originating party that "everyone else has signed".