System Safety
Engineering Safer Systems since 2002 …
Systems Big and Small
High Impact Services, Inc. has provided System Safety Support to the Navy since 2002. Systems as small as detonation timers for hand-placed ordnance to large, multi-million-dollar sensor systems have been placed under our responsibility. We’ve insured the products released are dangerous to our enemies, but safe to our warfighters.
Software Safety – Our Specialty
Our strong background in Software Development, Analysis, and Testing has been critical to performing Safety Analysis on the modern software-intensive weapons systems which are increasingly prevalent in today’s Navy. Safety Engineers able to understand and analyze complex safety-critical software are still rare today. High Impact Services is pleased to be a pace-setter in this area.
LEADERSHIP
Examples of our leadership in these critical areas of Safety Engineering include presentations at the annual International Systems Safety Conference and other conferences as well.
Mr. Beatty has met the requirements in NAVSEAINST 5100.12, completed a course of study, and demonstrated enough significant experience that he has been recognized as a Principle for Safety for US Navy weapon systems, by the Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity.
Example: TLDHS
High Impact Services, Inc. was instrumental in getting the TLDHS system its initial approval for production and fielding to the USMC. We were a continual presence on the Safety team from 2004 into 2012, leading the team from 2005 forward. Our contributions included:
- Analyzing Requirements for Safety Impact
- Developing Safety Processes
- Reviewing all Designs for Safety Impact
- Performing all Safety/Hazard Analysis
- Developing and maintaining a detailed Hazard Tracking Database
- Developing all Safety Documentation
- Auditing the Software Development Process to insure Quality procedures are followed
- Developing and executing all Safety Tests
- Reviewing every proposed change to the software for Safety Impact
Standards and Guidelines
We provide Safety Support in accordance with the following Standards and Guidelines:
- MIL-STD-882E – Standard Practice for System Safety
- Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook Version 1.0 (August 2010)
- System Safety Analysis Handbook (by the System Safety Society 1997)
- Presentations made by Naval Ordinance Safety and Security Activity at the International Systems Safety Symposium in Providence, R.I. Aug 2-6, 2004
- Presentations made by Naval Ordinance Safety and Security Activity at the System Safety Training Conference in LaPlata, MD, June 23-27, 2008
- AOP-52 (EDITION 1) – Guidance on Software Safety Design and Assessment of Munition-Related Computing Systems – December 2008
- Software System Safety Technical Review Panel Criteria 8020.6E
- Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) Order 5100.29B Safety Releases
- MCSC ESOH Handbook – Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health
- See also References