Functional Safety Awareness Training – 1 Day Training Course Outline

• Session
• Time
• Title
• Coverages

• 1
• 08:30 – 09:30
• Fundamentals of functional safety: #1
• • What is functional safety?
  • IEC 61508 family of standards
  • Technology/devices applications
  • The challenges of assuring functional safety

• 2
• 09:30 – 10:30
• Fundamentals of functional safety: # 2
• • Strategy to achieve functional safety
  • Failure categories & safety integrity
  • Safety Integrity Levels
  • Overall design strategy

REFRESHMENTS

• 3
• 10:45 - 12:00
• Fundamentals of functional safety: # 3
• • Modes of operation
  • Example of overall approach
  • Allocation of safety functions
  • Compliance model

LUNCH

• 4
• 13:00 – 14:45
• Design essentials to achieve a specified SIL
• • Framework for the Design requirements
  • Hardware & Systematic Safety Integrity
  • Systematic Capability
  • Routes to compliance
  • Procurement/supply chain issues
  • Safety Manual

REFRESHMENTS

• 5
• 15:00 – 16:00
• Tolerable risk concepts & SIL determination
• • Legal Requirements (ALARP)
  • Quantitative & qualitative approaches
  • Risk Reduction concepts/Risk Parameters: (protection layers/conditional modifiers)
  • Sector approaches: (process, machinery, power systems)
  • Contribution of the EUC control system
  • (Low Demand Mode)

• 6
• 16:00 – 16:30
• Management of functional safety
• • Key requirements & Responsibilities
  • Procurement/supply chain issues

• 7
• 16:30 – 17:00
• Open Forum
• General discussion & feedback

17:00 COURSE FINISH