US DoD standard practice · Department of Defense Standard Practice: System Safety
MIL-STD-882E
MIL-STD-882E is the US Department of Defense's standard practice for system safety: a generic method to identify, classify and mitigate hazards across a system's life – hardware and software – with residual risk accepted at the right authority level.
Checked 18 Oct 2026
What it asks of a programme
- Hazard analyses and a hazard tracking system.
- A risk assessment for every hazard, from severity and probability.
- Residual risk accepted by the authority the risk level requires.
- Software criticality and the matching level of rigor.
- A Safety Assessment Report.
How Complia supports the work
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Hazard log
Each hazard gets a risk assessment code computed from severity and probability, before and after mitigation.
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Acceptance at the right level
Residual risk can only be accepted by a person whose role matches the required authority – and the acceptance is logged.
- 03
Software criticality
Software criticality index and level of rigor per function.
- 04
Safety Assessment Report
A report drafted from the hazard log, ready for your review.
What stays with you
The tables in Complia are encoded from the published standard – verify them against the official text and your contract's tailoring. Accepting risk remains a human decision.
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