Safe Systems: Construction, Destruction, and Deconstruction

摘要

Deconstructive Evaluation of Risk In Dependability Arguments and Safety Cases (DERIDASC) is a study focussed on the language used by safety engineers in their intellectual discourse. The DERIDASC project is inter-disciplinary in the sense that it experiments with techniques from philosophy, literary theory (Eagleton 1996, Culler 1997) and semiotics (Barthes 1994, Cobley 2001, Culler 2001) to diagnose problems of language, definition, and interpretation in safety engineering. The project aims to make safety engineers re-think and improve some of their habitual definitions. The project adopts methods of textual analysis usually found only in studies of the arts and literature, although the kinds of textual studies we propose have also been influential in the discipline of law (Ward 1998, Chapter 7).