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Explore our library of expert safety engineering publications detailing real-world compliance pathways and best practices for high-stakes physical systems.
Safety as a Design Feature: Using the V-Model to Cut Total Cost of Ownership
Treating functional safety as a late-stage checkbox is the single most expensive way to build a safety-critical system. Integrate it across the V-model instead, and safety becomes a lever on cost — not a tax on it.
What Is a Requirement? A Functional Safety Primer
A requirement is the smallest unit of a safety argument — and the most commonly mishandled. A plain-language primer on what makes a functional safety requirement defensible.
ISO/PAS 8800 and the road to certifying AI in safety-critical systems.
ISO/PAS 8800 is the first published attempt to frame how AI components are made safe inside road-vehicle systems. Here is what it asks of engineering teams, and where it leaves room for independent judgment.
Software FMEA: A Practical Walkthrough
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis is usually taught for hardware. Applied to software with discipline, it becomes one of the sharpest tools for finding systematic faults before they ship.
What we learned certifying a collaborative humanoid for the factory floor.
Field notes from validating a collaborative humanoid robot for shared-space industrial work — where the hazard analysis has to account for a machine that moves like a person but fails like a machine.
When to Bring in an Independent Functional Safety Expert
Independence is not a formality you satisfy at the end — it is leverage you gain by engaging early. A look at the moments where an outside safety perspective pays for itself.
CSA joins the program committee for the International Robot Safety Conference.
CSA has joined the program committee for the International Robot Safety Conference, helping shape the technical agenda around real-world certification of autonomous and collaborative systems.
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