In a world where data is shared seamlessly and instantaneously, the lack of intelligence in legacy fire alarm systems is ...

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 ...

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, ...

SEATTLE — Early in the development of the 737 MAX, engineers gathered at Boeing’s transonic wind tunnel in Seattle to test the jet’s aerodynamics using a scale model with a wingspan comparable to that ...

A door plug blew off Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 mid-flight in January 2024. Now the National Transportation Safety Board says it can happen again. When it comes to safety in the workplace, there ...

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

The webinar’s objective is to present the key challenges identified, and main common positions developed, by the SMR RF Working Group on Design and Safety Analysis (DSA) during Phase 3 addressing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...