BACKGROUND Prospective Hazard Analysis techniques such as Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA) and Structured What If Technique (SWIFT) have the potential to increase safety by identifying risks before an adverse event occurs. Published accounts of their application in healthcare have identified benefits, but the reliability of some methods has been found to be low. The aim of ...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective was to expand upon results of a previously piloted patient perception survey with Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA), to identify areas within pharmacist-managed clinics needing improvement. METHODS The survey was adapted for use in pharmacist-managed clinics. Patients completed the survey following regularly scheduled pharmacist appointments. ...

Um die oft hohen Sicherheitsanforderungen eingebetteter Systeme (im Sinne von Safety) zu gewährleisten, werden bei ihrer Entwicklung sowohl dynamische Testverfahren als auch statische Sicherheitsanalysen eingesetzt. Für den Test bieten sich insbesondere risikobasierte Ansätze an, da sie sicherstellen, dass solche Teile bzw. Anforderungen des Testobjektes früher und intensiver getestet werden, d...

Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) operates two nuclear power plant units and has started to build a third one. The current nuclear power units have a continuing need to maintain and update existing instrumentation and parts of their control systems. Each new device shall be classified and qualified according to its safety requirements. Using modern technology means, in practice, that more and more co...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. The important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (RPN). However, this traditional RPN method has several shortcomings. Therefore, in this paper we p...

Monitoring and analysis of high frequency acoustic emissions on marine diesel engines may indicate their condition with the aim to increase engine availability and reduce maintenance overheads for the Defence Force. An experimental study was undertaken to evaluate the application of acoustic emission (AE) sensing to the monitoring of both petrol and diesel internal combustion engine operating c...

Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) has been widely used as a proactive risk assessment for healthcare processes since its development in 2001. This study performs bibliometric analysis of published papers on HFMEA to map utilization evolutionary nuances. The dataset was obtained from the Scopus database English-language between 2002 2022 using “HFMEA” or “Healthcare Analysis” a...

The state-of-the-art models and schedulability analysis for mixed-criticality multicore systems overlook lowlevelaspects of the system. To improve their credibility, we therefore incorprate, in this work, the effects of delays from memory contention on a shared bus. Specifically, to that end, we adopt the predictable memory reservation mechanism proposed by the Single Core Equivalence framework...