Your benefits
Achieve the required level of safety when handling the respective products
Fulfil legal and contractual requirements and ensure legal compliance
Minimise project risks
Reduce or avoid costs
Ensure operational readiness
Occupational safety Ergonomics, environmental protection and product safety
All products and product-related operational and maintenance tasks must comply with legal requirements and standards in the areas of product safety, occupational safety, ergonomics and environmental protection. In the military environment, the German Armed Forces have established additional specific requirements.
These safety aspects must be considered early on in the product realisation process and throughout the entire lifecycle in order to minimise project and user risks. The requirements have far-reaching implications for the development process, product design, supplier selection and the scope of documentation.
Our services
In addition to in-depth technical expertise in all aspects of safety, HENSOLDT has many years of experience working with the specific requirements of the German Armed Forces. We provide services in the areas of product safety, occupational safety, ergonomics and environmental protection throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Our safety consultancy ensures that the relevant safety requirements are taken into account at the proposal and product realisation stages. For many decades we have been carrying out safety projects for many of the German Armed Forces’ weapons and special systems in the air, land and sea domains.
Occupational safety and ergonomics
We carry out product-related risk assessments using our own OSIMA software to meet all requirements for defence products, including those related to operational and maintenance tasks in terms of occupational safety:
- Identifying applicable rules and regulations
- Identifying and assessing risks by qualified personnel (occupational health and safety professionals, specialists in hazardous substances, radiation protection, lasers, etc)
- Deriving measures and documentation
- Supplying updates throughout the entire product lifecycle
- Evaluating changes in legal sources and determining effects on products including their usage
- Administering risk assessments, also for extensive system families
- Providing consultancy, guidance and support
With requirements management services and our extensive implementation expertise, we also consider ergonomic aspects in the product realisation process.
Environmental protection and chemical safety
We carry out product-related environmental protection and chemical safety compliance assessments throughout the entire product lifecycle.
- Identifying applicable rules and regulations and their impact on products
- Identifying hazardous substances or ingredients in products in accordance with regulatory requirements
- Categorising products according to waste classes and providing recommendations for their disposal
- Supporting preparation and quality assurance of material and data foundations for products (e.g. HAZ codes according to ASD standards) based on compliance assessment results
- Providing input for other Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) disciplines based on compliance assessment results (e.g. current or impending obsolescence due to prohibitions or restrictions on certain substances)
- Providing ongoing lifecycle support by evaluating changes in the regulatory framework and determining the effects on products including their usage
- Providing consultancy, guidance and support
Product safety and functional safety
Consideration of safety requirements early in the product lifecycle reduces development and liability risks.
- Identifying legal and technical requirements, e.g. from legal documents, norms, standards, customer requirements
- Identifying and specifying safety cases and requirements with prioritisation of design-critical requirements
- Carrying out risk assessments
- Supporting the assignment of safety requirements to system elements or development processes
- Considering safety activities in the product realisation process
- Carrying out verification and validation
- Providing evidence of conformity and documentation
- Further support services include research on ISO/EN standards, FME(C)A and maintaining the preliminary hazard list and hazard log