BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana Rail Link has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to design a safety system for a railway between southern Montana and northern Idaho. The Billings Gazette reported ...

The transition toward sustainable and low-carbon energy systems is driving the rapid development of emerging infrastructures based, for example, on ...

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 ...

Functional safety must be addressed alongside cybersecurity and AI from the earliest stages of silicon design.

The ISO 26262 spec is a household term for anyone even remotely involved with the automotive industry today. Increasingly, though, it is being used interchangeably with safety-readiness across the ...

To a machine designer, “stay safe” is not just a cheerful slogan or wishful thinking. Operator safety is a central design issue. The international standard, ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery – ...

Beneath the stands of the University of Chicago’s athletic field, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction transpired in 1942. In a wooden frame, graphite blocks interspersed with uranium ...

Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

A key Pentagon official is pushing the Defense Department's weapon system program managers to place more emphasis on safety when they design equipment. In a recent memorandum addressed to leaders ...

Security in educational settings is a complex challenge that requires a multi-layered approach. While technology and personnel are crucial components, the physical design of a facility itself plays a ...

This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the requirements established in IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1) in relation to the reactor coolant system and associated ...

All new conveyors inevitably succumb to the punishing bulk handling environment and begin to slowly degrade. They will eventually require more time and labor for maintenance, and the time between ...