The Safety and Reliability Group is here to promote the development of safety and reliability and to educate engineers in its application in the process, manufacturing, utility and public service industries.

The principal aims of the IMechE Safety & Reliability Group are to:

• Organise conferences and seminars (  RSS feed ) to promote best practise and allow cross fertilisation between different industries. 
• Organise the presentation of the latest developments and research from industry and the universities every two years under the title of Advances in Reliability Technology Seminar (ARTS). 
• Support the development of International standards on safety and reliability techniques. 
• Support the publication of books on the subject. 
• Support the movement to ensure that these subjects will be incorporated into all undergraduate courses of study. 
• Promote the provision of material for education.

Safety and Reliability Group Committee
 
This is made up of interested members who meet once a quarter. The work of the committee is supported by Technical Working Groups who meet independently and report back to the group committee their proposals. The organisation of events is co-ordinated by a Technical Activities Committee.

Technical Working Groups

• Reliability for Engineering - To increase the awareness and profile of reliability engineering and risk management and its application in the design and development of products.
• Systems Safety - To promote good practise in relation to the design and assurance of the Functional Safety of Mechanical Systems.
• Standards and Procedures -  To represent the IMechE.on BSI committees DS/1 and DS1/1 and to review and comment on standards and procedures relevant to safety and reliability as issued by BSI, European and other international bodies.
• Human Factors in Safety and Reliability - To raise the sensitivity of UK residents to human factors.