Independent Risk Assessment Facilitation Training
Train your staff in the investigative mindset of an independent challenger — bottom-up FMEA and top-down FTA to challenge internal design assumptions.
Digital Courses/Catalog/ Robotics
Fully customized, hands-on sessions built around your engineering team’s active hardware blueprints and system components. We translate dense regulatory text into real-world machine-building logic, so your engineers can implement compliant safety controls without halting development speed.
A curriculum scoped to your active blueprints and components
Hands-on application of the standards relevant to your product
Compliant safety controls your team can implement immediately
Delivery on your engineering calendar, on-site or private virtual
This program is fully tailored — the outline is built around your team’s active hardware and the standards your product must meet.
We scope the agenda with your engineering leads before delivery — translating dense regulatory text into machine-building logic for the systems you’re actually shipping. Request a quote to start scoping.

Ben Twombly
Founder & CEO · Principal Safety Engineer
Ben Twombly is the founder of Critical Systems Analysis and the principal engineer behind every CSA program. He holds an FS Engineer certification from TÜV Rheinland and the Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP) certification.
Before founding CSA in May 2023, Ben spent six years as a Senior Safety Engineer at TÜV Rheinland, preparing clients for safety assessments across a wide range of safety-critical systems. He earned his degree in robotics from the Colorado School of Mines. At CSA he works with robotics companies, autonomous vehicle manufacturers, industrial machinery firms, battery management system developers, and rail transit organizations across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Tell us about your hardware and timeline — we’ll build a custom workshop around it.