Origin offers a range of services from advice to company senior staff on improving safety performance, to undertaking detailed technical work on design and verification of critical systems/software, together with longer-term research to resolve new or difficult issues. The wide range of skills and extensive experience of Origin staff provide an economic alternative to the employment of new in-house staff for safety-related projects. The main services that Origin offers are:

• Independent safety advice, throughout a project;
• Independent safety audit advice on corporate safety management principles and practices;
• Risk assessment for safety and economic aspects of a project;
• Safety case development and review, including development of safety case and certification strategies;
• Advice on system design, especially system and software architecture;
• Advice on selection of software and system technologies for safety critical systems, including programming languages, real-time operating systems (RTOS) and commercial of the shelf (COTS) components
• Advice on system process issues, including coding standards, choice of tools and verification & validation techniques;
• Safety assessment, including use of classical analysis techniques, and development of special purpose analysis techniques;
• Contract research and supervision of corporate research programmes;
• Specialised safety training, from corporate awareness to project/design engineers.

The emphasis of our work is to try to provide the right advice at the right time. Where possible we will work with a client throughout a programme, providing advice on design and certification strategy, and providing audit services, at the appropriate time.