Knowledge Base

Articles & Resources

We believe safety knowledge should be accessible. These resources reflect our team's deep experience and our commitment to making functional safety more understandable for everyone working in safety critical industries.

Featured Resources

Practical guidance from our engineers on the topics that matter most to functional safety programs.

The Insider's Guide to Functional Safety

A comprehensive eBook covering the fundamental concepts, standards, and processes every functional safety practitioner should understand.

IEC 61508 Guidebook

A structured walkthrough of the IEC 61508 standard — its structure, key requirements, and how to apply it effectively to your program.

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Guide

A detailed technical guide to constructing, quantifying, and interpreting fault trees for safety critical system analysis.

System Hazard Analysis (SHA)

Step-by-step guidance on conducting a system hazard analysis to identify and classify hazards at the system level.

Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) Methodology

How to use PHA effectively in early-stage development to surface hazards before architecture decisions become costly to reverse.

Functional Safety Documentation Best Practices

What good safety documentation looks like, what assessors expect to see, and how to structure your documentation plan for success.

Case Studies

Real-world examples of how functional safety challenges were identified and resolved.

Mining Equipment Safety Certification

How a complex mining equipment platform achieved functional safety certification under challenging operational and regulatory conditions.

First Collaborative AMR — IEC 61508 Certification

The story of the first collaborative autonomous mobile robot to achieve IEC 61508 certification and what made it possible.

Functional Safety vs. Reliability

A clear explanation of how functional safety and system reliability differ, overlap, and must be addressed together in safety critical system design.

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