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INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM SAFETY SOCIETY
Organized 1962
Incorporated 1973
Professionals Dedicated to the Safety of Systems, Products, & Services
Candidate Worksheet
Candidate Name: Gabriele Schedl
Candidate Qualifications:
Gabriele Schedl has been Safety Director at Frequentis and thus responsible for System
Safety, Reliability Engineering, and Compliance & Approvals Engineering since 1999.
She established and promoted a Safety Management System in a company in central
Europe, where structured system safety was not well known at that time and still is not as
common as in the Anglo-American region. This includes the founding of the department,
definition of safety processes, comprehensive trainings and a company-wide hazard
tracking system.
She holds an Engineering Degree and a Master of Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical
Engineering (from the University of Technology, Vienna) and finished a post-graduate
education in business computer science and several safety courses at the University of
York and the University of Southern California.
She is experienced in conducting Safety and RAM Analyses for different projects in the
fields of Air Traffic Control (military and civil) and Railway Systems. Additionally she is
internal safety trainer, internal auditor and Certified Supervisory Expert (CSE).
She also substantially influenced the way to structured education in system safety, both
within Frequentis as well as at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Wien and
at the Danube University Krems. In addition she promoted system safety with many
papers, tutorials and presentations at the ISSC, the Safety Critical Systems Symposium,
the Aviation Symposium in Vienna and e.g. keynote speeches at the Safety Day 2012 and
2014 at FH Campus Wien. She was the invited International Luncheon speaker at the
ISSC in San Diego, 2015.
INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM SAFETY SOCIETY
Organized 1962
Incorporated 1973
Professionals Dedicated to the Safety of Systems, Products, & Services
Gabriele Schedl has initiated and substantially contributed to the Vienna Institute for
Safety and System Engineering (VISSE) at FH Campus Wien over the last years. She
also holds several permanent safety related lectures at this university. She is member of
the faculty of Professional MBA Aviation which is held at the Danube University in
Austria where she gives safety lectures.
She acts as Regional Vice President Europe of the International System Safety Society, to
promote system safety in Europe. Gabi is also in active collaboration with safety experts
from universities and businesses in various countries and she received the Manager of the
Year Award in 2014.
Candidate Goals for Office
* Improve and expand the international part of the ISSS in terms of acting as a point of
contact for all membership issues
* Set up an international network of membership activities
* Distribute information regarding international membership activities
* Recruit, process, and maintain individual and corporate memberships
* Enhance and promote the benefits of membership
* Evaluate Society membership and upgrade applications