[SystemSafety] Some News About Bertrand Ricque

[Steve Tockey]

Yes, deeply saddened. I always appreciated his insights. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.


— steve



On Aug 22, 2023, at 5:39 AM, Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at techfak.de> wrote:

Bertrand has been a member of and regular contributor to this list and its predecessor. He is the chair of the French national standards committee on E/E/PE system functional safety and an active contributor to the current rewrite of IEC 61058, as well as the Convenor with of the Project Team for the defence-industry functional safety standard-to-be IEC 63187.

Bertrand is directly responsible for getting me involved in standards. In the noughties there was much discussion of 61508 on the predecessor list out of York, and he suggested to the chair of the German national committee that they should invite me along to talk about my concerns and suggestions for improvement. I did so in October 2009. I was invited to join working groups and I presented my suggestions about FM in January 2010. That process has led to the IEC Draft Technical Specification which is currently out for national committee voting.

Audrey Canning told the 61508 Maintenance Teams today that Bertrand went missing in the sea at the weekend while on holiday, has not been found, and is now presumed to have died. I anticipate that many of us will be very saddened. I'll miss him deeply.

PBL

Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de




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