Provides a document for assessing and constructing safety cases and safety case reports - from understanding their purposes, through their development and on to their presentation.

Contents: 1. Accidents and safety -- 2. The language of safety -- 3. The safety management system -- 4. The purpose of a safety case -- 5. The requirement for a safety case -- 6. Setting a safety boundary -- 7. Measuring safety performance -- 8. Safety targets -- 9. So far as is reasonably practicable -- 10. Individual, group and population risk -- 11. The safety team -- 12. Costs in safety -- 13. Techniques and tools for safety cases -- 14. The hazard log -- 15. Human factors in safety cases -- 16. Software factors in safety cases -- 17. Management factors in safety cases -- 18. Independent safety review -- 19. Presentation of the safety case -- 20. Maintenance of the safety case.