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 ...

Can we ever be “too safe?” Before answering that question, consider that in an effort to make the world around us ever-safer, we sometimes tend to ignore unintended tradeoffs with potentially worse ...

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 ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require scientific ...

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 ...

Combine structured frameworks with a customizable assessment model to turn strategic fog into prioritized remediation plans with the most value. To keep up with a quickly changing threat environment, ...

I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...