A useful list of free handbooks, guides, and textbooks covering all of the tools of system safety and probabilistic risk assessment is available here: https://functionalsafetyengineer.com/safety-and-pra-resources/
Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Ford FMEA Handbook
- Bosch FMEA Handbook
- Softrel Software FMEA Overview
- MIL-STD 1629 Procedures for Performing FMECA
- U.S. Army FMECA Guide TM5-698-4
- IMCA Guidance on FMEA
- ABS FMEA for Classification
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Bosch FTA Handbook
- NUREG Fault Tree Handbook
- NASA Fault Tree Handbook (overview slides)
- A Fault Tree Tutorial (slides)
- Building a Fault Tree from a Schematic (video tutorial)
Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
- NASA PRA Procedures Guide
- BSEE PRA Procedures Guide for Offshore
- NUREG PRA Procedures Guide Vol 1 / Vol 2
- IAEA PSA Guide Level 1 / Level 2
- Guidelines on Common Cause Failures in PRA
- On the Quantitative Definition of Risk
- PRA: A Perspective on Strengths, Current Limitations, and Possible Improvements
System Safety
- NASA System Safety Handbook Vol 1 / Vol 2
- FAA System Safety Handbook
- Air Force System Safety Handbook
- DoD Unmanned System Safety Engineering Precepts
- NIOSH System Safety and Risk Management (new)
- MIL-STD-882E System Safety
- MIL-STD-882F System Safety (Draft)
Software Safety
- Phil Koopman CMU Lectures and Course Notes (new)
- NASA Software Safety Guidebook
- NASA Software Assurance and Software Safety Standard
- NASA Software Engineering Requirements
- NASA Software Engineering and Assurance Handbook (new)
- Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook
- NATO AOP-52 Guidance on Software Safety
- U.S. DOT Software Reliability: A Preliminary Handbook
- NUREG 6463 Guidelines on Software Languages
- MISRA C Guidelines – 2012
- AUTOSAR Guidelines for the use of the C++14 language
- The Utility and Practicality of Quantifying Software Reliability
- Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering (Book)
Bayesian Analysis
- Bayesian Inference for NASA Probabilistic Risk and Reliability Analysis
- Handbook of Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Risk Assessment
- Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Book)
- Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd edition (Book) (new)
- Statistical Rethinking (Book, website) (new)
Bayesian Networks
- A Tutorial on Learning Bayesian Networks
- Understanding Bayesian Networks (Slides)
- Bayesian networks: A guide for their application…
- Product safety idioms: a method for building causal BNs… (new)
- Github: Bayesian Network based Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis tool (new)
- Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (Book)
- Learning Bayesian Networks (Book)