IEC 61508:2010 Functional Safety of Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic Safety-related Systems

Course Duration: 5 Days

This 5-day training course provides training for compliance requirements and guidance for trainees who are typically responsible to identify and analyze safety aspects in E/E/PE (Electrical/Electronics/Programmable Electronics) so that the developed Systems, Hardware and Software conform to this 7-part standard.

IEC 61508:2010 has two fundamental principles:

  1. The safety life cycle is defined based on best practices in order to discover and eliminate design errors and flaws.
  2. A probabilistic failure approach to account for the safety impact of device failures.

Learning Objectives

  • Interpreting IEC 61508 scope and compliance requirements
  • Understand the requirements for the E/E/PE Safety Lifecycle
  • Implement the Safety Requirements for the System
  • Implement the Safety Requirements for the Software
  • Understand risk concepts and safety integrity
  • Understanding the frequently-used Functional Safety techniques and measures

Course Outline

Day 1

· Chapter 1: Interpret IEC 61508 Scope and Compliance Requirements

o Describe the scope of IEC 61508

o Identify the 7 parts of IEC 61508 documentation

o Match the expected deliverables to the parts of the standard

o Breakout Exercise 1: Understanding the Standard Scope

· Chapter 2: The Requirements for the E/E/PE Safety Lifecycle

o Define the lifecycle phases and the activities for Systems and for Software

o Understanding Verification and Validation requirements within the lifecycle

o Implement the needs and specifications of Functional Safety Assessment

o Plan and execute safety activities, including risk control and support processes

o Understand the competency requirements for the lifecycle stages and for Functional Safety assessment

Day 2

· Chapter 2: The Requirements for the E/E/PE Safety Lifecycle (cont’d)

o Breakout Exercise 2: Project Schedule Definition

· Chapter 3: Safety Requirements for System (and Hardware)

o Hardware safety integrity requirements and architectural constraints per SIL levels

o Implement safety-related system integration, installation, and commissioning procedures

o Establish systematic capability and proven-in-use arguments for hardware elements

o Breakout Exercise 3: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis Workshop

Day 3:

· Chapter 4: Safety Requirements for Software

o Software safety lifecycle processes and systematic capability requirements

o Software architecture design, coding standards, and testing strategies per SIL requirements

o Establish software verification and validation procedures including static and dynamic analysis

o Breakout Exercise 4: Design Guideline and Test Strategy Documentation

Day 4:

· Chapter 5: Risk Concepts and Safety Integrity

o Concept of risk, risk profile, safety risk, tolerable risk, risk reduction and remediation

o Concept of HARA and its relation to the safety lifecycle

o Common Cause, systematic, random and dependency Failures, Diversity Principles and Mitigation Systems

o Defining SIL determination methods: ALARP, Risk Graph Method, Layer of Protection Analysis

o Implement SIL determination, low/high demand modes, assumptions and Classification System

o Breakout Exercise 5: Defining Hazards and Risks

Day 5:

· Chapter 6: Understanding the Frequently-used Functional Safety Techniques and Measures

o Understanding normative traceability requirements

o Appropriate techniques and measures to achieve functional safety

o Safety Analysis using FMEA, FTA, HAZOP and other techniques

o SIL level oriented Verification and Validation activities

o Breakout Exercise 6: FMEA and Root Cause Analysis

· Final Exam – 2 hour

Who Should Attend

This course has been developed for professionals who work in the development, deployment, maintenance and production of safety-related systems in E/E/PE irrespective of the application; titles may be but not limited to:

  • Functional Safety Engineer
  • Functional Safety Manager
  • Systems Engineers and Safety Architects
  • Quality and Compliance Engineers
  • Verification and Validation (V&V) Specialists, System or Electronics Test Engineers
  • Safety Managers
  • Project Managers

Course Materials

Each participant will receive a seminar manual and a workbook including all team breakout exercises, which promotes teamwork and brainstorming activities during the seminar. Participants will also be subject to a final exam on the last day of the seminar.

Note: Omnex does not provide copies of standard(s) during training courses, but clients are encouraged to have their own copy.

Pre-Requisite

Participants should possess a working knowledge of quality systems and methodologies; being knowledgeable about the basic concepts of electric/electronics, engineering lifecycles and the supporting processes will also be helpful.

Upcoming Training

IEC 61508:2010 Functional Safety of Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic Safety-related Systems Program is available in multiple locations globally, including the USA, Canada, Mexico, India, Europe, Thailand, Singapore, Middle East and China.