The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4 brings you all of The Safety Artisan’s blog posts from the first six months of this year. I hope that you find this a useful resource!
The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4: 18 Posts!
- FREE for FIVE DAYS ONLYFacebookTweetPin FREE for FIVE DAYS ONLY: All courses. Get $320 worth of courses for FREE. Use these Links to make a (free) purchase of all courses within FIVE DAYS; once purchased, you can access them forever. ************************************************ This series of courses teaches the system safety analysis tasks from Mil-Std-882E. When combined, they allow us to… Read more: FREE for FIVE DAYS ONLY
- Navigating the Safety CaseFacebookTweetPin Navigating the Safety Case is Part 4 of a four-part series on safety cases. In it, we look at timing issues and typical content through the safety case lifecycle. A Comprehensive Guide to Ensuring Project Safety When embarking on any significant project, ensuring safety isn’t just a step in the process—it’s the foundation of… Read more: Navigating the Safety Case
- The Lifelong Evolution of a Safety CaseFacebookTweetPin Introduction In The Lifelong Evolution of a Safety Case, we look at how to Review and revise a Safety Case and Re-Issue a Safety Case Report. When it comes to ensuring safety throughout any Product, System, or Service lifecycle, reviewing and revising the Safety Case isn’t just a recommendation—it’s essential. The age or status… Read more: The Lifelong Evolution of a Safety Case
- The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4FacebookTweetPin The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4 brings you all of The Safety Artisan’s blog posts from the first six months of this year. I hope that you find this a useful resource! The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4: 18 Posts! The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4 is it for this year – thanks, everyone!… Read more: The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4
- Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case Report – Part 2FacebookTweetPin In Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case Report – Part 2, we move on to review and sign off on the artifacts. Introduction In any high-stakes environment—whether it’s defense, engineering, or aviation—Safety Case Reports play an essential role in validating the safety of a system. A meticulous review and sign-off process ensures that… Read more: Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case Report – Part 2
- Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case ReportFacebookTweetPin Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case Report: A Comprehensive Guide for Project Safety Assurance – PART 1 [Picture by Eric Bruton from Pexels.com] Introduction Building a robust Safety Case and Safety Case Report is essential to ensuring the safety and regulatory compliance of complex systems within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and similarly… Read more: Crafting a Safety Case and Safety Case Report
- In-Service Safety Management SystemFacebookTweetPin In-Service Safety Management System: Ensuring Long-Term Safety for Military Equipment Safety is paramount when it comes to military operations, especially for in-service equipment relied upon by personnel daily. This article delves into the intricacies of maintaining an In-Service Safety Management System, offering insight into how safety practices are implemented, monitored, and evolved over time.… Read more: In-Service Safety Management System
- Comprehensive Project Safety Management Plans: A GuideFacebookTweetPin Comprehensive Project Safety Management Plans. Safety is a critical element in any large-scale project, especially in the context of defense and complex systems. One essential tool for managing safety is a Safety Management Plan (SMP). In this article, we’ll break down the process and structure of an effective SMP, highlighting its objectives, content, and… Read more: Comprehensive Project Safety Management Plans: A Guide
- Guide to Establishing and Running a Project Safety Committee (PSC)FacebookTweetPin Our Second Safety Management Procedure is the Project Safety Committee. Okay, so committees are not the sexiest subject, but we need to get stakeholders together to make things happen! Project Safety Committee: Introduction In safety-critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and engineering, maintaining a robust safety management system (SMS) is paramount. A Project Safety… Read more: Guide to Establishing and Running a Project Safety Committee (PSC)
- Project Safety InitiationFacebookTweetPin In ‘Project Safety Initiation’ we look at what you need to do to get your safety project or program started. Introduction Definitions A stakeholder is anyone who will be affected by the introduction of the system and who needs to be consulted or informed about the development and fielding of the system, and anyone who contributes… Read more: Project Safety Initiation
- Members Get a Free Intro Course, 50% Off & UpdatesFacebookTweetPin Members Get a Free Intro Course, 50% Off & Updates. I will send you the links and discount codes via email. So, tick the email box and check your junk mail to receive the offers. You will get an email series showcasing the free/paid resources. Also, regular updates on new articles: never miss another… Read more: Members Get a Free Intro Course, 50% Off & Updates
- More Resources for Risk AssessmentFacebookTweetPin Welcome to Module Five, More Resources for Risk Assessment. We’re on the home straight now! This is the last of the five modules. I will let you know where to get more resources and help on these topics. Course Learning Objectives More Resources for Risk Assessment: Transcript Copyright/Source Statement “First, I want to point… Read more: More Resources for Risk Assessment
- Designing Your Risk Assessment ProgramFacebookTweetPin Designing Your Risk Assessment Program. Which Ingredients should we use? In this post, I draw upon my 25+ years in system safety to give you some BOLD advice! I’m going to dare to suggest which analysis tasks are essential to every System Safety Program. I also suggest which tasks are optional depending on the… Read more: Designing Your Risk Assessment Program
- Understanding Your Risk Assessment StandardFacebookTweetPin When Understanding Your Risk Assessment Standard, we need to know a few things. The standard is the thing that we’re going to use to achieve things – the tool. And that’s important because tools designed to do certain things usually perform well. But they don’t always perform well on other things. So we will… Read more: Understanding Your Risk Assessment Standard
- Risk Management 101FacebookTweetPin Welcome to Risk Management 101, where we’re going to go through these basic concepts of risk management. We’re going to break it down into the constituent parts and then we’re going to build it up again and show you how it’s done. I’ve been involved in risk management, in project risk management, safety risk… Read more: Risk Management 101
- System Safety Risk AnalysisIn this module, System Safety Risk Analysis, we’re going to look at how we deal with the complexity of the real world. We do a formal risk analysis because real-world scenarios are complex. The Analysis helps us to understand what we need to do to keep people safe. Usually, we have some moral and legal obligation to do it as well. We need to do it well to protect people and prevent harm to people.
- Updating Legal Presumptions for Computer ReliabilityFacebookTweetPin TL;DR Updating Legal Presumptions for Computer Reliability must happen if we are to have justice! Background The ‘Horizon’ Scandal in the UK was a major miscarriage of justice: Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 sub postmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these… Read more: Updating Legal Presumptions for Computer Reliability
- Hazard and Risk BasicsFacebookTweetPin What are the Hazard and Risk basics? So, what is this risk analysis stuff all about? What is ‘risk’? How do you define or describe it? How do you measure it? When? Why? Who…? In this free session, I explain the basic terms and show how they link together, and how we can break… Read more: Hazard and Risk Basics
The 2024 Blog Digest – Q3/Q4 is it for this year – thanks, everyone!
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Learn safety engineering with me, an industry professional with 25 years of experience, I have:
•Worked on aircraft, ships, submarines, ATMS, trains, and software;
•Tiny programs to some of the biggest (Eurofighter, Future Submarine);
•In the UK and Australia, on US and European programs;
•Taught safety to hundreds of people in the classroom, and thousands online;
•Presented on safety topics at several international conferences.