ARP4761, Guidelines and Methods for Conducting the Safety Assessment Process on Civil Airborne Systems and Equipment is a standard from SAE.

This standard defines a process for using common modeling techniques to assess the safety of a system being put together. The first 30 pages of the document covers that process. The next 140 pages give an overview of the modeling techniques and how they should be applied. The last 160 pages give an example of the process in action.

Some of the methods covered:

• Fault Tree Diagrams
• Common Cause Analysis
• Zonal Safety Analysis
• Functional Hazard Assessment

See also

• ARP4754
• DO-254
• DO-178B
• Safety engineering
• avionics