ABOUT US: 

The Laboratory of Risk & Safety Analyses (est. 1995) is the sister company of the Institute of Risk & Safety Analyses (est. 1974). The Institute (IRSA) conducts analytic investigations of accidents using tools within Accident Reconstruction, Engineering, Math, Physics, Biomechanics, and Human Factors. The Lab deals with product testing, empirical investigations, applications as well as computer simulations/animations.

The Laboratory has been involved in thousands of traffic collision investigations. With extensive knowledge of vehicular kinematics, skid mark examination, vehicle code research, signal phase patterns, and perception-reaction analyses, we provide state-of-the-art reconstruction to uncover the facts in an accident. For site inspections, the Laboratory has professional quality, multi-camera and video capabilities that allow scene re-creations to be simultaneously documented from multiple viewpoints. These views can be synced together to produce useful visual demonstrations with professional results. Our in-house video production facilities allow greater flexibility and accuracy when reconstructing an accident than a separate outside video production firm. Our experience is widely applied to red light disputes, high-speed collisions, vehicle rollovers, multi-vehicular accidents, and more. We also offer options of 3D animation to recreate and illustrate the event scenarios in detail using state-of-the-art 3D animation software, 3D scale modeling, and 3D scanning of the site.

In addition to auto-collision investigations, the Laboratory is also involved in many other areas. We investigate failure cause and evaluate warning adequacy for both consumer products (chairs, ladders, toys, appliances, etc.) and industrial equipment (presses, conveyors, elevators, scaffolding, forklifts, etc.). Our facility offers a variety of destructive and non-destructive testing techniques including optical and electron microscopy. For premises liability (slip-and-fall, trip-and-fall, swimming pool, etc.), the Laboratory provides in-house friction tests as well as on-site inspection and code research. We have also developed industry standards regarding warnings on swimming pools. Moreover, our assessments propose alternative solutions for improving safety levels overall and reducing the risk of unnecessary and preventable accidents.