Technical Safety Norms
Safe practice for software, data, infrastructure, security and engineering work.
Safety Norms: Mobile, Desktop and Embedded Application Development
This Safety Norms document gives development teams a starting point for building mobile, desktop and embedded applications that protect users, devices, data and the physical surroundings where products operate. It explains the people involved, the activities and tools they use, the hazards that arise from code, hardware interfaces, update channels and test environments, and the controls that reduce those hazards. Mandatory rules are separated from recommendations. Where a rule depends on law, a published standard, a manufacturer's manual or an organization's own policy, the text says so and directs readers to verify the current version with a competent authority or qualified professional. Nothing here replaces formal training, approved internal procedures, supervision by an accountable engineer, or emergency services when a real hazard is present.
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This document sets out safety norms for IT service management, the discipline that plans, delivers, and supports technology services through activities such as incident handling, change control, service requests, asset management, and problem management. Although the work is largely digital, it involves real physical hazards in server rooms, data centers, cabling closets, and field locations, along with information risks that can harm individuals and organizations. The norms separate mandatory rules from recommendations, define roles and authorizations, explain risk assessment, and set out preventive controls, safe working practices, information safeguards, incident and emergency escalation, and records and review. They are a starting point for locally approved procedures. Laws, standards, and manufacturer instructions vary by jurisdiction and must be verified with competent authorities and qualified professionals.
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This document sets practical safety norms for IT service management and enterprise operations, the discipline that keeps production services, data centers, network facilities, and business applications running. It covers the people who change and support systems, the tools and records they use, the rooms and power systems that host equipment, and the information that must be protected. Mandatory rules are stated with must or required; recommendations are marked with should. Laws, standards, and manufacturer instructions vary by jurisdiction and must be verified with competent authorities or qualified professionals. This is educational guidance and does not replace formal training, supervised practice, approved local procedures, or emergency services. Use it as a starting point for locally approved operating procedures.
Read the safety norms TechnicalSafety Norms: Generative AI Applications
This Safety Norms document gives practical rules for designing, building, deploying, and operating generative AI applications, including chat assistants, content generators, retrieval-based question answering tools, and agents that call external systems. It identifies the people, tools, data, and decisions involved, separates mandatory norms from recommendations, and sets controls for harmful or false output, data exposure, prompt injection, and unsafe automation. It is educational guidance and a starting point for locally approved procedures. It does not replace legal advice, formal privacy or security review, or qualified professional authorization in regulated fields. Verify current laws, standards, and vendor terms with competent authorities or qualified professionals for your jurisdiction.
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This Safety Norms document provides a starting point for safe work with Industry 4.0 Technologies, the integration of cyber-physical systems, industrial internet of things sensors, collaborative and industrial robots, automated guided vehicles, additive manufacturing cells, digital twins, edge gateways, and cloud analytics linked to production equipment. It identifies the people, tools, environments, information, and decisions involved, then separates mandatory rules from recommendations. It covers people, process, information, equipment, legal compliance, emergency readiness, and environmental safety. It is educational guidance and does not replace formal training, supervision, manufacturer instructions, professional engineering review, or locally approved procedures. Laws, standards, and codes are jurisdiction-dependent, so verify current versions with competent authorities or qualified professionals before use.
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This document sets out practical safety norms for people who design, train, test, deploy, and maintain machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. Modern ML work involves more than software. Engineers operate high density compute racks, liquid cooling loops, batteries, lab equipment, robotic test cells, and vehicles or drones, and they build models that command physical processes. The norms below identify realistic hazards and assign clear responsibilities for prevention, supervision, permits, maintenance, emergency response, and environmental protection. Mandatory rules are labeled as such, and recommendations are identified separately. Laws, standards, codes, and manufacturer instructions vary by jurisdiction, so teams must verify current versions with competent authorities or qualified professionals. This is educational guidance. It does not replace professional authorization, formal training, approved site procedures, supervision, or emergency services. Use it as a starting point for locally approved procedures.
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This document sets out practical safety norms for marine and naval engineering work on vessels, shipboard machinery, shipyards, and associated shore facilities. It identifies the activities, people, tools, environments, and decisions that create risk, then defines mandatory rules and recommended practices for preventing injury, protecting workers and the public, safeguarding the environment, and responding to incidents. It covers hazard identification, machinery safeguards, permit to work systems, personal protective equipment, maintenance, emergency response, and environmental protection. The norms are educational guidance and a starting point for locally approved procedures. They do not replace classification society rules, flag state or navy requirements, port regulations, manufacturer instructions, formal training, or supervision by qualified personnel. Verify all applicable laws and standards with competent authorities or qualified professionals.
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This Safety Norms document provides a practical starting point for safe and compliant AI solution development. It covers the people, tasks, tools, data, and decisions involved in building machine learning and generative AI systems, including data collection, labeling, model training, evaluation, integration, deployment, and monitoring. Its main concern is preventing harm to people, privacy breaches, unsafe model behavior, insecure infrastructure, and uncontrolled release of automated decisions. Mandatory rules are separated from recommendations. Laws, standards, and vendor instructions are jurisdiction-dependent and must be verified with qualified professionals. This is educational guidance. It does not replace approved local procedures, formal training, supervision, or emergency services.
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This document sets out practical safety norms for Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, covering laboratory work, pilot-scale melting and casting, heat treatment, specimen preparation, mechanical and microscopy testing, and the handling of chemicals, gases, and waste these activities generate. It separates mandatory rules from recommended practice, names responsible roles, and describes how hazards are identified, controlled, permitted, reported, and reviewed. Its purpose is to protect workers, students, visitors, and nearby communities from burns, molten metal, stored energy, toxic dusts, corrosive and reactive chemicals, pressurized gases, and environmental release. This is educational guidance and a starting point only. Locally approved procedures, qualified supervision, and current laws, standards, and manufacturer instructions take precedence and must be verified with competent authorities or qualified professionals.
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This Safety Norms document gives practical guidance for people who plan, carry out, and report energy management and energy audit work. It covers hazards met during site walkthroughs, metering and electrical inspections, and utility data analysis, and it separates mandatory rules from recommended practice. Particular attention is given to financial control safety, fraud prevention, segregation of duties, data confidentiality, regulatory compliance, accurate records, and escalation of suspicious activity. The norms are a starting point for locally approved procedures. Energy audits can involve energized equipment, confined spaces, and savings claims that affect budgets, contracts, and incentives. Readers must verify current laws, standards, utility rules, and client requirements with competent authorities or qualified professionals. This is educational guidance and does not replace formal training, professional authorization, supervision, or emergency services.
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This Safety Norms document gives students, instructors, field supervisors, and project staff a practical starting point for safe work in environmental and sustainability engineering. The subject spans site investigation, sampling, water and wastewater treatment trials, air emission measurement, waste handling, remediation, energy audits, and laboratory analysis. Each activity brings physical, chemical, biological, electrical, and public exposure hazards. The norms below separate mandatory rules from recommendations, assign responsibility, require competence and authorization for higher-risk tasks, and set out controls for permits, machine guarding, personal protective equipment, maintenance, emergencies, and environmental releases. Laws, standards, and manufacturer instructions vary by jurisdiction and change over time, so readers must verify current requirements with competent authorities and qualified professionals before adopting any procedure.
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This document sets out safety norms for ethical hacking methods, the structured practice of testing systems, applications, networks, and people with explicit permission so weaknesses can be found and fixed before others exploit them. It applies to security testers, supervised students, engagement leads, system owners, and anyone who selects tools, handles captured data, or decides how findings are reported. The norms separate mandatory rules from recommendations, define who may authorize and perform testing, describe realistic hazards such as service outages and data exposure, and set controls for scope, access, privacy, tooling, incident response, and review. This is educational guidance only. It does not replace legal authorization, formal training, employer policy, or supervision by qualified professionals. Verify current laws, standards, and contract terms with competent authorities or qualified advisers in your jurisdiction.
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