Functional Safety and SIL for Safety Systems IEC 61508/61511 training

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Course Description

Risknowlogy offers the accredited Functional Safety and SIL for Safety Systems training course for specialists, professionals and engineers. The course focuses on functional safety aspects for any industry dealing with safety systems according to IEC 61508 and or IEC 61511.

The main objective of this course is to give engineers, professionals and specialists involved in safety systems the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of functional safety and the requirements of the functional safety safety standards IEC 615108 and IEC 61511. A second objective is to give anybody attending the course the opportunity to certify their knowledge through an exam.

What you will get

All participants get:

• The course material
• White papers on functional safety topics
• Safety Passport
• Upon successful completion of the course:
  • A Risknowlogy or TÜV SÜD certificate,
  • A knowledge certificate for those that pass the exam

Knowledge Certification

This course comes with an exam and personal knowledge certification.

• Functional Safety Specialist, Engineer (TUV) certificate for those that obtain 60% or higher on the exam
• Functional Safety Professional (TUV) certificate for those that obtain 75% or higher on the exam
• Functional Safety Specialist certificate with distinction for those that obtain 85% or hire on the exam
• Certificate of Attendance for that that do not pass the exam

Who should attend Functional Safety and SIL for Safety Systems training?

Any professionals working directly or indirectly in their workplace with Functional safety and SIL for Safety Systems.

Course content

Day 1

• Introduction to functional safety
  • Business case for functional safety
  • Important laws
  • The IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards
  • Random, common cause and systematic failures
• Functional safety management:
  • Life cycle concept
  • Competency
  • Verification
  • Validation
  • Assessment
  • Audit
  • Documentation
  • Important FSM procedures
  • Modifications
  • Configuration management

Day 2

• Hazard & Risk Analysis:
  • Hazard identification
  • Hazard and risk analysis
  • Risk reduction
  • HAZID, FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, ETA, LOPA, Risk Graph, Risk Matrix
  • Safety function definition SLATS
  • Safety requirements specification
• Planning the safety system
  • Planning for end users, integrators, and realization of safety systems
  • Safety plan,
  • Verification plan,
  • Validation plan,
  • Assessment plan
  • Audit plan
  • Safety requirement specification

Day 3

• Hardware design
  • Hardware lifecycle
  • Energize vs de-energize
  • Low demand, high demand, continuous mode
  • Target failure measure (PFDavg, PFH)
  • Redundancy
  • Diversity
  • Voting
  • Hardware fault tolerance
  • Type A, Type B
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Proof tests
  • Safe failure fraction
  • Architectural constraints according to IEC 61508 (route 1h, 2h)
  • Architectural constraints according to IEC 61511

Day 4

• Hardware reliability
  • Reliability modelling
  • FMEDA
  • Block diagrams
  • Simplified equations
  • FTA
  • Markov
  • Failure data
  • PFD calculation
• Software design
  • Software lifecycle
  • Embedded software
  • Application software
  • Utility software
  • Fixed programming languages (FPL)
  • Limited variability languages (LVL)
  • Full variability languages (FVL)
  • Software architecture
  • V-model
  • Measures to avoid failures
• Operation and maintenance
  • Installation and commissioning
  • Safety validation
  • Operation, maintenance and repair
  • Modification and retrofit
  • Maintenance override

Day 5

• Exam