Human interactions with horses entail certain risks. Although the acceptance and use of protective gear is increasing, a high number of incidents and very low or inconsistent voluntary use of safety equipment are reported. While past studies have examined factors influencing the use of safety gear, they have explored neither their influence on the overall safety behavior, nor their relative inf...

The growing complexity of safety-critical embedded systems is leading to an increased complexity of safety analysis models. Often used fault tolerance mechanisms have complex failure behavior and produce overhead compared to systems without such mechanisms. The question arises whether the overhead for fault tolerance is acceptable for the increased safety of a system. In this paper, an approach...

Cognition in technical systems, as the ability to autonomously generate decisions, enables the systems to cope with heavily changing situations. But as its future behavior is not known a-priori, cognition adds new attributes to safety issues. The paper presents the application of an architecture for cognitive safety control to a manufacturing scenario. The architecture consists of an operationa...