Introduction to IEC 61508

Can you prove your competency in functional safety?

"...The procedures for ensuring that applicable parties involved in any of the overall, E/E/PES or software safety lifecycle activities are competent to carry out the activities for which they are accountable; in particular, the following should be specified:
The training of staff in diagnosing and repairing faults and in system testing;
The training of operations staff;
The training of staff at periodic interval"

IEC /EN 61508 - Part 1
Chapter 6 - Management of functional Safety
Paragraph 6.2.1 (h) - Requirements

"...All persons involved in any overall, E/E/PES or software safety lifecycle activity, including management activities, should have the appropriate training, technical knowledge, experience and qualifications relevant to the specific duties they have to perform."

IEC /EN 61508 - Part 1
Annex B - Competence of persons
B2 - General considerations

About the course

This course introduces the fundamental and basic principles of functional safety according to IEC 61508. The IEC 61508 standard applies to any kind of programmable electronic safety system in any industry. Although the standard is seen as a product developers standard it is a general purpose standard which applies to end-users, system integrators and product developers.

This course is ideal for engineers and managers that are new to functional safety and IEC 61508. The course is a good preparation for the Risknowlogy Functional Safety Certification Courses (FSCC).

Length: One day
Course hours: 9:00 - 17:00
Price: Available upon request
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You will be able to:

• Communicate with safety engineers and experts in the field that talk the specialized and technical safety language
• Apply the lifecycle concept to your organization
• Communicate the functional safety management principles too your peers and management
• Apply verification, validation, assessment and audits techniques
• Design on a high level a safety system
• Understand the important aspects of reliability engineering
• Understand the proof that suppliers need to deliver to you when selling you safety service and products

You will cover:

• What functional safety means
  
  • The basis of functional safety
  • The lifecycle concept
  • Management of functional safety
  • Verification, validation, assessment and audits
  • Measures to avoid failuers
• Fundamental hardware design concepts
• Architectural constraints (HFT, Type A, Type B)
• Reliability analysis (SFF, PFD, PFS, SIL, STL)
• Safe software
• Measures to avoid failures

Class room activities:

• Classify possible failures
• Perform a hazard analysis

What you will get:

• Handouts of the course material
• Case studies and class room exercises
• White papers on IEC 61508 and functional safety management
• Certificate of Attendance

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