The Ontological Hazard Analysis (OHA) is a specification and analysis method for system safety requirements, based on many small but rigorous refinement steps and causal analysis. This development sequence is applied to train-dispatching protocols as defined in the German railway standard FV-NE.
Ontological Hazard Analysis is a method for safety-requirements derivation and analysis that allows for logical traceability of safety requirements through system development through to (at least) design. It uses formal refinement and requires methods from formal logics, in particular many-sorted logics that use a number of different axioms.