Leadership is essential to developing system safety. As outlined in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) report, Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after ...

Twenty-five years ago, a 39-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer was admitted to a Boston hospital for autologous stem cell transplantation as part of a clinical trial. It was a heady time in ...

As machines grow more complex and interconnected, functional safety standards and intuitive human-machine interfaces become ...

Editor’s Note: September is Safety Month in the North American railway industry. This month, Railway Age “recalls to active duty” the three-part series on System Safety by Sonia Bot and Tony Zenga, ...