We offer the following services:

• Safety Manager
  • We can provide the system safety or software safety manager role, or assist your manager.
  • We can administer System Safety Programs from end-to-end.
• Safety and Security Manager
  • We can provide the consortium system safety and security role.
    • (i.e., the project coordinator and liaison between consortium and client for light rail systems)
• SSWG/SwSWG Chairperson/Member
  • We can lead or attend SSWGs/SwSWGs or safety committees.
  • We can represent the safety aspect of your project in front of your client.
    • Typically, our safety knowledge and experience will exceed that of your client and their consultants.
      • Think about the implications of this!
• Safety Representative
  • Besides being SSWG/SwSWG involvements, we can either accompany you or represent you and your interests at other meetings, for example:
    • Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) Working Group meetings (e.g., if you are a supplier to railroads).
  • There have been occasions when our clients wished they had retained us!
  • We represent the "big guns" in system safety.
    • It would be a very unusual situation if our safety knowledge and experience did not exceed that of anyone else in the room.
    • Want to be confident?
• System Safety Auditor
  • We can audit system safety products or processes - either your own or your suppliers'.
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• Safety Analysts
  • We can perform specific safety analyses for you.
  • We can perform safety analyses concurrent with your system design.
    • We can implement entire System Safety Programs.
  • We can review your or your suppliers' safety analyses and other safety documents.
    • (e.g., PHA, FTA, FMEA, SFMEA, FMECA, SSHA, SHA, FHA, PSSA, SSA, O&SHA, SSMP/SMP, SSPP, SAR, Safety Case)
  • We can analyze the safety of an existing design.
    • Some safety-critical systems do not have existing safety analyses.
• RAMT Analysts
  • We are experienced in RAM Program Plans.
  • We are experienced in reliability analysis (allocation, modeling, prediction).
  • We are experienced in availability analysis and demonstrations.
  • We are experienced in maintainability analysis.
  • We are experienced in testability analysis.
  • We are experienced in FMEA and FMECA.
• Help Desk
  • We can give you advice.
  • We can provide you information.
  • We can answer questions.
  • Convenient payment by credit card.
    • For more information click here.
  • Help is also available in person.
    • We can arrange to visit you.
    • You can arrange to visit us.
• Safety Guideline Preparation
  • We can write system safety guidelines for your staff and suppliers to follow (e.g., how to prepare an SSMP/SMP, SSPP, PHL, PHA, FTA, FMECA, O&SHA, Safety Case). We have templates of these that we can customize for you.
  • For more information click here.
• Safety SOW, CDRL, DID, Proposal Preparation
  • We can write system safety SOW sections and associated DIDs.
  • We once wrote SOW text, CDRLs, and DIDs for a client of ours.
    • This client later told us that the successful bidder wanted to know who the author was.
    • Why?
      • They were so impressed that they wanted to hire us!
  • We can sell you system safety DIDs.
    • For more information click here.
  • We can help you scrub down SOWs and DIDs.
    • We are very good at this.
    • Why?
      • System safety touches many areas of the SOW.
      • We understand system engineering.
      • We understand project management.
      • We understand configuration management.
      • We understand software.
      • We understand reliability.
  • We can help you prepare proposals and win bids.
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• Forensic Safety Assessment
  • HCRQ provides around the clock, around the world response to accidents and incidents - professionally, quickly, efficiently and, of course, confidentially.
  • For more information regarding this unique service, starting with our experience with the THERAC-25, click here.