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 ...

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 ...

A majority of safety practitioners accept the premise that absolute safety is not attainable. Still, some safety practitioners profess that only a risk-free environment is acceptable. These two ...

Research personnel must perform a process risk assessment for all processes that utilize hazardous materials. The assessment is utilized to determine the level of risk associated with a specific ...

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 ...

Have you ever faced the daunting task of identifying and prioritizing risks in a project, only to feel overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all? Whether you’re managing a multi-million-dollar ...

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 ...

Environmental contamination control is a crucial aspect of sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, and risk management is needed to guarantee that the necessary control procedures are in place. The risk ...

This is key: Once the right risk assessment data is collected, it should be used to implement a long-term fall protection abatement program. Despite state-of-the-art equipment and an abundance of fall ...