Digital Safety Case Methods and Development

A safety case is traditionally presented through a suite of printed documents, often with a significant page count (e.g. in excess of 10,000 pages). These documents make qualitative and quantitative arguments through the use of text, tables, diagrams and plots with references provided to underlying reports, models and similar. However, the advent of digital technologies brings an opportunity to review existing processes for the production of safety cases, as well as approaches for the presentation of the information contained within. In doing so we can investigate whether additional benefits (for all stakeholders involved in the development programme for the repository) can be gained from the adoption of new technologies.