Bridging the gap from theory to practice: we coach, facilitate, and guide your teams to build lasting internal capability.
Looking to jump-start your first analysis? We provide the expert facilitation and oversight you’re looking for to ensure success.
Below are the most popular ways we partner with organizations to support STAMP-based approaches.
Engagement Process
System safety, security, and reliability don’t have to be overwhelming. We follow a three-step process to deliver clear, actionable solutions.
Initial discovery call and assessment of your organizational needs. We listen to your challenges and define the scope of a potential collaboration.
A tailored plan including specialized training, interactive workshops, and a clear roadmap designed specifically for your systems.
We move from theory to practice, guiding your team through real-world application of STAMP to identify hazards and manage complex system risks.
Together, we develop a hierarchical control structure to understand how decisions at all levels impact safety. By identifying the specific decisions, control actions, and feedback loops, we reveal the systemic relationships that strengthen or weaken safety, security, or reliability.
We analyze interactions and unsafe behaviors to identify specific causes of losses that take into account the contextual factors behind unsafe decisions. By examining unsafe control actions, inadequate feedback, and other factors, we define the specific safety constraints necessary to prevent or mitigate future losses.
Translate analysis into action by defining the specific safety constraints and operational controls required to prevent losses. We help your team develop strong feedback loops, precise requirements, and effective solutions. Through this collaboration, we build your team’s capability to manage safety, security, and reliability over the long term.
Designed for teams on a tight budget or a compressed timeline, these projects provide a rapid jump-start to your safety efforts. We hold a short series of whiteboard workshops as we work together to apply STPA to your specific application over the course of just a few days.
For organizations requiring a comprehensive safety or security study, large-scope projects are months-long efforts that involve deep integration with your team. We will facilitate and oversee the analysis with participation from every team member to ensure technical rigor and depth.
System design is rarely linear. Our iterative support follows your development lifecycle, revisiting the STPA analysis as the design evolves from initial concept to final implementation.
STPA does not exist in a vacuum. We specialize in helping organizations weave STAMP-based methods into existing workflows, such as MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) or traditional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262, DO-178C).
Similar to our small-scope STPA offering, this is a fast-paced accident or incident analysis. We help your team quickly move past superficial causes to identify the deeper systemic factors that led to an event. A small project can be accomplished in a few days.
For organizations requiring a comprehensive safety or security study, large-scope projects are months-long efforts that involve deep integration with your team. We will facilitate and oversee the analysis with participation from every team member to ensure technical rigor and depth.
We can support your organization’s rigorous evaluations by quantifying the value and effectiveness of STAMP-based approaches (like STPA and CAST). If you need objective data to justify a shift in methodology, we provide expert support to ensure you apply STPA/CAST correctly and prove the benefit in your specific safety, security, reliability, or other operational context.
Evaluations can focus on STPA/CAST results as a standalone effort, with results evaluated in terms of value to the organization or to previously known factors. More rigorous evaluations use a controlled experiment where independent teams are selected to apply STPA/CAST and other methods (e.g., FMECA, FTA, RCA) following strict independence protocols.
If you’ve been involved in empirical research or experimental design, you know the importance of controlling for variables and avoiding external bias. We can help you plan an evaluation that will hold up to scrutiny by the fiercest skeptics.
We’ll guide you through:
Along the way, we’ll share lessons learned from past evaluations and what does or does not work well.
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Whether it’s for safety, security, or reliability, moving from a single successful pilot to enterprise-wide adoption requires a strategic roadmap. We provide the guidance necessary to scale these methods across different departments, including internal training programs, customized tooling recommendations, and the creation of internal STPA/CAST Centers of Excellence.
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