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Safety Analysis and Engineering
Managing risk by assessing engineering design, performance, failure or misuse in two key niches -
- Vehicle Safety - autos, ambulances, paratransit vehicles, school buses, trucks, transit buses, ATVs, construction equipment
- Product Safety - medical devices, machinery, wheelchairs, motorized scooters, child restraints, window blinds
Forensic Safety Group offers educational presentations on safety awareness, prevention
and training to all clients as well as select schools and emergency
responders in the local community.
Litigation Strategy
Supporting attorneys and insurance companies with forensic research, engineering analysis and expert witness testimony in areas such as:
- Seat belt design, usage and performance
- Airbag design and performance
- Collision/Crash Data Recorder (CDR) analysis
- Automotive seat design and performance
- Occupant kinematics
- Biomechanics
- Crash sensing
- Wheelchair design and performance
- Wheelchair tie-downs and occupant restraint systems (WTORS)
- Vehicle roll-over sensing and performance
- Dynamic crash and HYGE sled testing
- Bus seating and occupant restraint systems
- Paratransit safety
- Ambulance safety and design
- Wheelchair lifts
- Passive restraint systems
- The "Seat Belt Defense"
- Child restraint systems
- Hospital beds
- Electromechanical medical devices
- Patient lifts, hoists, bed scales
- Cribs
- Child safety devices
The Process
Forensic Safety Group's careful, in-depth approach to each case provides a specific methodology necessary to withstand challenges to expert testimony in accordance with the federal government's Daubert standard as well as local standards such as Pennsylvania's Frye standard and other state standards. Through a rigorous, scientific, well-documented process, Forensic Safety Group can help:
- Pinpoint trouble areas in the engineering design phase
- Identify areas of risk and determine how an injury was caused
- Assess how equipment design, maintenance, usage or human error contributed to the injury
- Analyze and interpret data
- Help illustrate findings through advanced imaging techniques, including standard and digital photography, digital video, high-speed video, thermal imaging and macroscopic and microscopic depiction of evidence
- Make recommendations for safety modifications to equipment, procedures, training and vehicles
- Distill research results into understandable language and produce thorough, precise reports
- Communicate effectively with jurors through clear testimony and graphic presentation
- Manage trial costs through efficient consulting
- Design test protocols
- Perform component and systems tests
Research and Testing
Forensic Safety Group's research and testing methodologies combine the use of classic strategies with cutting-edge technological advances. The company now owns the latest Bosch CDR technology that enables staff members to download and analyze crash data from airbag crash data recorders (similar to the "black box” recorders used in airplanes). This accurate and reliable technology gives Forensic Safety Group the power to:
- Identify vehicle speed, engine speed, brake status and throttle position up to five seconds before impact
- Determine whether the driver's seat belt was fastened or the car's airbags were enabled
- Assess how long it took airbags to deploy following impact
With Forensic Safety Group, you get scalable, tailored services to help get the job done. The company relies on the broad experience of its principals and their ability to tap into extensive pools of research and resources - including a well-connected network of experts - to identify the best course of action for YOUR unique case.
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