Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Identify hazards. Assess risks. Implement risk control according to the hierarchy of risk control methods. The first Informational Note following this says the risk assessment procedure could identify ...

Deterministic safety analysis is an essential component of safety assessment, particularly for safety demonstration of the design of nuclear power plants (NPPs). The objective of deterministic safety ...

The National Fire Protection Agency’s newly-released active shooter guidance gives 21 characteristics of facilities that officials should include in any building risk assessment checklist. The NFPA ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

Risk analysis for installations containing large amounts of flammable substances is important to ensure safety and to meet legal requirements. Click here to enlarge image This article deals with a ...

Early efforts to prevent machine-related injuries were focused on the development of engineering specification standards. These specification standards laid the foundation for further requirements ...

Risk assessment is an essential step in protecting our employees, students, visitors and the University, as well as complying with the law. The core principles of the Policy Statement advocated by ...