safety

This month, we’ll look at risk assessment, a fundamental element not only of labeling, but of the overall safety of your products

This article will discuss risk assessment techniques before and after sale and some of the legal and practical implications arising from their use.

ISO 26262 defines the probabilistic metric for random hardware failures (PMHF) as the average probability of a violation of a safety goal associated with a failure over a vehicle’s lifetime and architecture metrics. In this article, we propose a method to calculate the PMHF and expand the application to redundant subsystems that are not adequately described in the standard.

Federal consumer protection agencies in the three major North American countries have signed an agreement affirming their intent to cooperate in protecting their nations' citizens from unsafe products.

The Commission of the European Union (EU) has an updated list of standards that...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has voted unanimously to eliminate mandatory, third-party...

How does safety work? That is, given a hazardous situation, how do we prevent injury from that situation?

A new symbol is being standardized for arc flash – and it’s an important step forward for safety.

Appliance manufacturer Viking Range has agreed to pay a $4.65 million civil penalty in...

Did you ever wonder why we use 0.1 ohm (and sometimes 0.5 ohm) for the ground impedance value for plug-and-socket connected equipment?