Automotive
Ensuring safety in autonomous vehicles and securing complex electronic control units from hazards and malicious control.
STAMP Across Industries
A car on cruise control speeds up toward a stopped vehicle. A bedside blood analyzer reports a normal reading as dangerously low, with no warning. Nothing was broken in either case. The car and the hospital staff each acted on a wrong picture of what was going on.
People, software, and organizations act on what they believe is happening in every industry, so the same methods work in all of them.
STAMP in Action
Airlines
Finding hazards in airline operations, including ones where nothing fails, as part of the safety management system (SMS).
Aircraft
Finding hazards in flight controls and automation, and in how pilots work with them, from early concept through flight test.
Space
Finding how landers, spacecraft, and launch operations can be lost with every part working as designed.
Airport Operations
Finding the runway and ground hazards that arise with every light and alert working as designed.
Nuclear Power
A plant trip without any component failure behind it, and where the NRC stands on STPA.
Internet & Big Tech
Large online outages where every part did its job, and how Google’s site reliability engineers use STPA and CAST to prevent them.
Learn moreOil & Gas
Finding hazards that a HAZOP can miss in refineries, pipelines, and offshore operations, including ones where every instrument reads correctly.
Healthcare
Finding how patients are harmed when record systems, alerts, and care teams all work as intended.
Medical Devices
Securing life-critical equipment and ensuring the functional safety of diagnostic and therapeutic hardware.
Learn moreRail
Finding where signaling, trains, and staff rely on each other in ways no one wrote down, as railways move more control into software.
Maritime
Finding the handover and configuration problems in ship automation that can put a ship aground with every part working.
A Comprehensive Industry List
STAMP approaches have been applied for everything from Dam Safety to Financial Systems (e.g., for compliance or fraud prevention).
View the Full List of 126+ Industries Using STAMP
The complete directory includes specialized sectors such as:
Defense & National Security
Applied to mission assurance and security
Biopharmaceuticals & Clinical Research
Applied to safety and regulatory compliance
Renewable Energy & Grid Storage
Applied to reliability and safety of critical infrastructure
Robotics
Applied to safety, security, and reliable operation
How Can We Help You?
Request an Industry-Specific Briefing
Our methods are already active in 126 industries. We can share lessons learned from experiences applying STPA or CAST in your specific sector, from Spacecraft to Big Tech, to achieve your assurance goals.
Safety & Security Workshops
Learn how to implement STPA to address both safety and cybersecurity as a dynamic problem within your infrastructure, protecting against both safety-related and financial losses.
Incident Analysis Support
If your organization has experienced a complex loss (safety, security, reliability, etc.), let us show you how CAST can identify root causes that traditional chain-of-events models miss.