Editor’s Note: September is Safety Month in the North American railway industry. This month, Railway Age “recalls to active duty” the three-part series on System Safety by Sonia Bot and Tony Zenga, ...

One key component that needs to be considered when designing any mass notification system (MNS) is the risk analysis. Before any design is laid out, shop drawings produced, equipment ordered or a ...

Airline safety comparisons often focus on outcomes, while regulators and operators assess safety performance through layered ...

This article provides insights into the importance of an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to comply with functional-safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO... 1. FMEA and its ...

Probabilistic Safety Assessments (PSA), which was introduced in the 1970s as complement to deterministic safety analysis methods, is a well-established tool that supports design and safety assessment ...

Twenty-five years ago, a 39-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer was admitted to a Boston hospital for autologous stem cell transplantation as part of a clinical trial. It was a heady time in ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 2 (March–April 1970), pages 4–8.] IN AN AGE when weapon system ...