Safety Assessment Report (SAR)

The purpose of the SAR is to document a comprehensive evaluation of the mishap risk being assumed prior to test or operation of a system, prior to the next contract phase or at contract completion.

The SAR documents all safety features of the hardware, and system design and to identify procedural, hardware-related and software-related hazards that may be present in the system being acquired including specific procedural controls and precautions that should be followed.

For small development programs or non-developmental item acquisitions, the SAR may be used as the only formal documentation of safety program activities/hazard assessment. In this case, inexperienced safety engineers often have difficulty deciding if the SAR content is sufficient.

The SAR is sometimes referred to as a SSAR (System Safety Assessment Report). The SAR is not to be confused with the System Safety Assessment (SSA) a la SAE ARP4754.

One of the SARs, we developed recently, was for DJM Manufacturing & Sales for their Scorpion SEID-17 and SEID-20 run flat extraction and insertion systems. Their customer was the USMC.