AbstractThe challenge faced by safety professionals continues to grow in complexity driven by factors such as larger more sophisticated systems, environmental issues, legal ramifications, moral concerns, and an ever-increasing desire to inch closer and closer towards achieving the goal of “zero-defects”. The strive for process improvement is on a continuum and the desire for process excellence has become more than just a fashionable obsession. Arguably a more sophisticated means to capture the safety efforts is required. Over the last few years there has been a trend towards making safety regulations less prescriptive and be more goal oriented. Are goal-based safety regulations truly a step forward? Although ‘Safety Case’ is stated as a requirement in many safety standards, should it be included as an explicit requirement? Let's take a closer look at what is a Safety Case. According to one of the definitions employed in the Industry, a Safety Case is, “A documented body of evidence that provides a convincing and valid argument that a system is adequately safe for a given application in a given environment”. This may be a starting point in the attempt to define and describe a safety case.