Overview

This three day course addresses the full life cycle of safety engineering and safety management for those organisations involved in the procurement, analysis, development or operation of systems which may be safety-critical.

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for several roles related to systems which may be safety-critical, including:

• system safety personnel managing or performing analysis and development; and
• customer personnel who have to review or otherwise assess customer artefacts such as safety cases.

Other roles within an organisation may benefit from a customised subset of the topics covered in this course.

Content

This course contains sessions on topics including the following.

• Duty of care
• Relative, absolute and acceptable safety
• Hazard Identification
• risk assessment
• Techniques including Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies.
• Derivation of Safety Integrity Levels (SIL)
• Development
• Inherent safety
• Layers of protection
• Testing
• Maintenance and modification
• Documentation mechanisms such as the hazard log and safety case
• Monitoring and incident investigation
• Safety standards