| Contact Mary Bryant, RiskWorld staff, e-mail bryant@tec-com.com. |
| design safety engineering, inc |
Bruce Main founded design safety engineering, inc. in 1995 to assist engineers and manufacturers in the process of addressing safety by eliminating hazards through design. The company strives to eliminate potential safety problems early in the design process through design evaluations, safety analyses, and proprietary engineering tools such as designsafe®. (Posted November 1999.) |
| http://www.designsafe.com/ |
| Det Norske Veritas |
| Established in 1864, Det Norske Veritas is an independent foundation working to safeguard life, property and the environment. Based in Oslo, Norway, DNV has more than 5,500 employees--primarily engineers and technical personnel--in a network of 300 offices in 100 countries. DNV provides safety and reliability services, including classification, certification, verification, and advisory services, to maritime authorities, shipping companies and off-shore platforms, process plants, and industrial management systems. It also specializes in safety, environment, and quality management, as well as technical services and software. (Posted January 2000.) |
| http://www.dnv.com/ |
| Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center (FRAC) |
| FRAC was established in response to the public demand for a centralized information source on issues of traveler safety and security. Since then FRAC has expanded its role to provide information of interest and importance to segments of the public wanting to know about residential, commercial, industrial and institutional safety. The focus of FRAC is to analyze safety and security event data in an effort to identify how future incidents can be avoided. FRAC is dedicated to providing information to anyone concerned about the foreseeable risks of loss or injury resulting from safety and security hazards. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.frac.com/ |
| Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis |
Founded in 1981 and located in the Department of Statistics, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, at the George Washington University, the institute's goal is to initiate basic and applied research aimed toward increasing the fundamental knowledge base and methodology in reliability, quality control, and risk analysis. The institute emphasizes the development and application of Bayesian methodology in addressing and solving practical problems. (Posted April 2000, updated September 2006.) |
| http://www.gwu.edu/~stat/irra/index.html |
| International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM) |
IAPSAM sponsors and oversees the organization of the International Conferences on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM), which promote rational decision making to assure safety and reliability and to optimize the use of resources for complex systems through the use of risk assessment and management methods. The conferences, which are held at approximately two-year intervals, provide a public forum for information exchanges covering both theory and applications of these methods to the design and operation of technological systems and processes. PSAM Conferences are now the premier international forum for communication among experts in risk and reliability assessment and management. (Posted January 2000.) |
| http://www.iapsam.org/ |
| Public Entity Risk Institute |
| This not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization serves public, private, and nonprofit organizations as a dynamic, forward thinking resource for the practical enhancement of risk management. Its web site includes the Clearinghouse database, which provides information and links to hundreds of risk management, safety, disaster management, and other resources; a news center that includes PERIscope, the institute's quarterly newsletter; and information about the PERI Grant and Research Program, with descriptions of the projects it has funded or is funding. (Posted September 2000.) |
| http://www.riskinstitute.org/ |
| Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) |
| See System Reliability Center. For more information, read "A new name for a familiar face: RAC is now SRC." (Posted July 2000; updated October 2003 and September 2006.) |
| http://rac.alionscience.com/, now http://src.alionscience.com/ |
| RELIASS |
| With many years experience in the reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety industries, the independent firm RELIASS has teamed up with major software and solution providers to offer a complete range of reliability, safety, and integrated logistics support (ILS) software programs and consultancy, including RAMS software tools, solutions, and consultancy; ILS and logistics support analysis (LSA) software solutions and consultancy; Six Sigma training and consultancy; training; product support; and complete solutions. The company is based in Fareham, United Kingdom. Click here to request more information. (Posted August 2003.) |
| http://www.reliability-safety-software.com/ |
| RiskAndReliability.com |
| Risk analysis consultants are compiling links to resources they have found useful in their work to produce a not-for-profit website that will be a useful tool for everyone interested in risk and reliability analyses. They welcome suggestions of links to include on this site. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.riskandreliability.com/ |
| System Reliability Center |
| The System Reliability Center (SRC), an
Alion Science and Technology
Center of Excellence, has served the reliability and maintainability
(R&M) community for more than 35 years as a technical focal point for
information, data, analysis, training, and technical assistance in the
engineering fields of reliability, maintainability, supportability, and
quality (RMSQ). SRC undertakes a variety of government organization and
industrial support projects each year. The center's 50-plus local engineers
are backed by Alion Science and Technology resources at 44 locations, with
more than 2,600 employees of various technical backgrounds and expertise. SRC is ready to provide its customers with total, turn-key solutions, including training, consulting services, publications, and tools for both government and commercial businesses. For more information, contact SRC at http://src.alionscience.com/about/src_contactus.html, or browse its products at http://src.alionscience.com/src/products.do and its services at http://src.alionscience.com/src/consult.do. (Posted September 2006.) |
| http://src.alionscience.com/ |
| System Safety Society Inc. |
| This nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to the safety of systems, products, and services exists to advance system safety's state of the art, to contribute to a meaningful management and technological understanding of system safety, to disseminate newly developed knowledge of system safety, to further the development of professionals in the field, to improve public understanding of the system safety discipline, and to improve the communication of system safety to management, engineering, and other professional groups. In addition to the society's on-line resources, some of its chapters, such as the North Texas System Safety Society and the Florida Chapter System Safety Society, have webs that link to useful information about system safety. (Posted March 2000.) |
| http://www.system-safety.org/ |
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