About Safety and Reliability Group

Safety and Reliability Group promotes the development of safety and reliability requirements for products such as equipment, systems or services.

What we do 

• Provides good practice guides and information to engineers associated with designing, manufacturing, operating or maintaining products.
• Increases the understanding of risk, while continuing to work on the assessment of hazardous events, dissemination of lessons learned and the promotion of risk reduction strategies.
• Represent the IMechE on the BSI and IEC committees developing and updating standards on dependability (reliability, maintainability, supportability, and availability).
• Represents the Institution on the Hazards Forum which provides an interdisciplinary focus for the study of disasters.
• Organise safety & reliability themed events. We are always keen to receive feedback on our services. Maybe you would like to suggest a subject area for an event?
• Supports Proceeding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability.

Objectives

To educate engineers working across all industries such as the process, manufacturing, utility and public service industries.

Industries covered

The Group works across all industry sectors covering:

• safety regulations
• reliability and performance
• assessment and maintenance
• human factors.