Like nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities such as fuel fabrication plants, reprocessing facilities and storage sites deal with nuclear material and their operations need to conform to the ...

Safe and high-quality food is crucial to both consumers and the food industry. Despite the measures taken to ensure food safety, contamination can still occur. In this article, we will explore the ...

Checklists, pre-start checklists, jobsite checklists — they make safety people feel better about their job and the safety of their people. And rightly so. When compiled correctly, they offer valuable ...

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 ...

The field of highway geometric design and safety analysis focuses on optimising road layouts to ensure safety whilst maintaining efficient transportation networks. Traditionally, deterministic design ...

The boundless possibilities of automation in cars and other vehicles have captivated designers to the point that electronic content is now a stronger driver of differentiation than any other factor.

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 ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on June 11 reported finalizing the transition to a “new, more user-friendly” online public safety data website as required by Section 22405 of the ...

Failure rate or base failure rate refers to the number of failures per unit of time, typically in terms of failures in time (FITs) equivalent to one failure in a billion hours, which can be expected ...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be the culmination of dozens of highly complex systems, incorporating state-of-the-art technologies in electronics hardware, sensors, software, and more. Conceiving and ...