This is a list of free handbooks, guides, and textbooks covering all of the tools of system safety and probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). To the best of my knowledge, all of the resources on this page are free and legal.
We have resources covering FMEA, FTA, PRA, System Safety, Software Safety, STAMP/STPA, GSN, and Bayesian methods. The resources are drawn from multiple industries, including automotive, nuclear, space, and aviation.
Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Softrel Software FMEA Overview
U.S. Army FMECA Guide TM5-698-4
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
BSEE PRA Procedures Guide for Offshore
NUREG PRA Procedures Guide Vol 1 / Vol 2
System Safety
NASA System Safety Handbook Vol 1 / Vol 2
Software Safety
NASA Software Safety Guidebook
Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook
NATO AOP-52 Guidance on Software Safety
U.S. DOT Software Reliability: A Preliminary Handbook
Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering (Book)
Bayesian Methods
Bayesian Inference for NASA Probabilistic Risk and Reliability Analysis
Handbook of Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Book)
Learning Bayesian Networks (Book)
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (Book)
STAMP / STPA
Engineering a Safer World (Book)
Safety Cases and GSN
UL 4600 (draft) Autonomous Systems Safety
Adelard Safety Case Development Manual (free registration)
Civil Aviation CAP 760 Guidance on Safety Cases
Reliability Engineering
MIL-HDBK-338B Electronic Reliability Design Handbook
Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering
More To Come…
That should keep you busy for a while! This page will be updated periodically with fun new stuff. Please leave a comment if there are any great resources I left off.
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This is a brilliant set of resources – many thanks !