Bastion’s Safety and Mission Assurance services encompass all aspects of flight and ground systems safety, reliability, maintainability, risk, and quality assurance, including construction safety and safety training.  Areas of expertise include:

• General Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance
• Inspection, Audits, Surveillance, and Compliance (OSHA and other Federal Initiatives)
• Independent (Third-party Non-advocate) Assessment and Evaluation
• Institutional Safety and High-Risk Research Facility Management
• Range Safety and Ground Support Systems Analysis
• Occupational Safety, Health Physics, Industrial Hygiene
• Explosives Safety
• Emergency Operations Center Support
• Hazardous Operations
• Mishap Investigations
• Risk Assessment and Analysis
• Reliability and Maintainability (e.g., mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, and structural systems)
• Quality Engineering and Assurance

Bastion engineers are experts in applying industry techniques and using analysis to support our customers’ safety and mission assurance goals.  Such analysis and techniques include:

• Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FEMCA)
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Qualitative Risk Assessment System (QRAS)
• Monte Carlo
• Trade-off Studies
• Event Sequence Diagrams (ESD)
• Systems Analysis Program for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluation (SAPHIRE)
• Computer-aided Fault Tree Analysis (CAFTA)
• Crystal Ball (Decisioneering)
• Mathematica
• Statgraphics
• Minitab