Safety is a live posture,
not a document.
Continuous hazard analysis, automated evidence, and SRE integration for DCB0129/0160 compliance. Essential for clinical AI systems requiring explainable decision support.
See how CoLab supports clinical governance →The Current Reality: Fragmented and Retrospective
Clinical Safety Officers are asked to sign off on systems that evolve faster than the documentation. Hazards are logged inconsistently, approvals are hard to track, and evidence is often produced only at audit time.
Traditional safety processes rely on static documents that quickly fall out of sync with reality. In practice, hazards shift, mitigations need re-approval, and evidence becomes scattered across spreadsheets and PDFs.
How the gaps manifest in practice
Inconsistent hazard capture
Issues noted by developers or clinicians often bypass formal logging
Delayed assurance
Mitigation approvals arrive long after code changes are in production
Static reports
PDF submissions that do not reflect the live state of the system
Integration gaps
Limited linkage into PMS or LFPSE, making national reporting fragmented
The Broader Implications: Risk Without Transparency
Clinical risk management becomes reactive, not proactive
Safety Officers carry personal accountability with incomplete visibility
Organisations face audit failure risk and regulatory fines
Patients face invisible risk when hazards are not actively monitored
Continuous safety with DCB CoLab
Inference Clinical's DCB CoLab is a live system of record for clinical safety. It captures hazards across the full context — from clinical pathways and operational workflows to culture and code. Safety is woven into delivery practice, not bolted on afterwards. This includes implementing AI explainability as foundational safety controls for modern clinical decision support.
Continuous monitoring
Pathways, workflows, human factors, dev and production systems
Cultural alignment
Shared governance with protected reporter identity and feedback loops
Evidence automation
Live logs compiled into DCB0129/0160 reports on demand
Integration by design
Events surfaced directly into PMS and LFPSE
Approval workflows
Structured, auditable mitigations with expiry and escalation
Governance alignment
DTAC and NHS safety standards embedded throughout
By embedding safety into full-lifecycle DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, CoLab ensures that safety posture evolves with the system — always current, always auditable.
Safety Lifecycle Pipeline
Robust governance protects the most vulnerable patients, not just organisations.
Equity in Safety
Continuous, live safety reduces health inequities by ensuring that risks are identified and mitigated for all patients — not just those with strong advocacy or digital literacy. By capturing hazards across pathways and workflows, allowing issues to be raised by any role, and enforcing time-bound consent, CoLab ensures that vulnerable groups are protected with the same rigour as the majority. Governance isn't just compliance — it's fairness, embedded in the system.