The Occupational Safety and Health Administration via the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 provides work-place safety standards, all of which apply to big and small businesses throughout the ...

The U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...

The old NASA slogan "failure is not an option" is appropriate to describe the safety challenges faced by leaders of multinational companies. For an increasingly well-informed public, safety, health ...

A new safety concept based on the system-of-systems (SoS) perspective is proposed in a recent review paper published in Engineering, aiming to address the challenges of future civil aviation ...

Organizational safety cultures have improved immensely over the years. The Journal of the American Medical Association (1999) estimates that occupational fatalities decreased by more than 90 percent ...

When we read reports of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, we often can see a very obvious and deadly mistake. While we think, I would never do that, it begs the question, Why did ...

Did you know that the ANSI/ASSP Z10.0 Standard provides a framework for OHS management and industrial hygiene? Here are some tips on how to leverage this standard to better safeguard your workers.

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. In-Time Aviation Safety Management: Challenges and Research for an Evolving Aviation System.

The ISA-84 series of standards and technical reports provide detailed guidance for every phase of the safety instrumented system (SIS) lifecycle, to make sure systems are designed, verified and ...

People with facility management responsibilities want to be sure they are doing the right things to ensure safety compliance while also effectively managing their other obligations. And they often ask ...

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...