Understanding and improving system safety through system dynamics modelling – systematic literature review

System Dynamics (SD) has been widely used in modelling across a range of applications that range from socio-economic to engineering systems, but its potential has not yet been fully realised as a tool for understanding system safety and supporting relevant strategic decision making. We conducted a literature review of SD applications in safety-critical environments, employing a safety taxonomy framework. The result of our literature review provides an overview of SD modelling application in safety-critical environments, highlighting the existing gap and generating future research questions in this area.