TUV SUD Certified Functional Safety training course and examination in IEC 61508

Course Content

• Functional safety management

  • Life cycle concept, documentation requirements, verification, validation, assessments and audits, modifications

• Hazard & Risk Analysis

  • Hazard identification, hazard analysis, risk reduction, safety function definition using FTA, HAZOP, LOPA, Risk Matrix, Risk Graph

• Planning the safety system

  • Safety planning for designers, end users and integrators, verification plan, validation plan, Safety Requirements specification, requirements for suppliers

• Hardware design

  • Hardware lifecycle, low demand, high demand and continuous mode, redundancy, diversity, hardware fault tolerance, safe failure fraction, type A/B, architectural constraints, proof testing, diagnostic tests, measures to avoid and control failures

• Hardware reliability

  • Reliability modelling, FMEDA, failure data, PFD, PFH, SIL

• Software design

  • Software lifecycle, embedded software, application software, fixed programming languages, limited variability languages, full variability languages, 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

Who should attend

Engineers and professionals who require a broad level of knowledge and may be responsible for functional safety, its principles and methods, within their workplace.

The criteria for TUV Certification is as follows:

There are no formal pre-requisites to attend the training course but experience of Functional Safety in general and the IEC 61511 standard is advantageous.

A delegate can be awarded with a Functional Safety Engineer (FSEng) certificate if they

• Achieve at least 60% in the examination, having attended the full training course with no experience or academic qualifications.

A delegate can be awarded with a Functional Safety Professional (FSP) certificate if they

• Achieve at least 75% in the examination, having attended the full training course.
• Satisfy the experience / qualification criteria as recorded on the registration form (delegates who do not satisfy the experience / qualification requirements will be awarded the FSEng qualification).
• Can demonstrate 6 years’ experience in an applicable industry for which formal education may be credited against this requirement as follows:
  • First degree (e.g. Bachelor's degree): deduct 2 years
  • Master's degree: deduct 3 years
  • PhD: deduct 4 years
• Provide 2 references as confirmation of relevant industry experience.

Exam format

Closed book exam.

Open questions: 50 marks.

Case study questions: 50 marks.

Examination process for Live Online courses

TUV Certification requires taking a “closed book” examination. The delegate will therefore be required to attend the invigilated examination at a nominated venue in the weeks following the training. Please refer to the specific course schedule for further details.

After this training course you will be able to:

• Communicate the essential elements of functional safety to your colleagues, management and peers in industry.
• Apply functional safety management.
• Understand and play a role in hazard and risk analysis.
• Determine the required SIL with risk graph and matrix methodologies.
• Understand how to verify and validate safety instrumented systems.
• Understand the basic requirements of the functional safety standards.
• Create basic designs of safety instrumented systems, taking into account architectural constraints.
• Understand the effect of redundancy, diagnostics, proof test intervals, hardware fault tolerance on the SIL.
• Understand the routes by which devices can be shown to be compliant.

What you will get

• The course material.
• A Certificate of Attendance for each delegate that attends the full course (24 hours of CPD).
• A TUV Certificate on successful completion of the programme and a listing on the TUV Sud website. TUV Sud Certification is valid for life.

Course Options

Live Online

The Course is delivered as 6 x 4 hour sessions followed by a 3-hour closed book online examination.

In house

The Course and examination can be delivered at a client's premises in a closed session. For further information, please contact us at support@methodfs.com .

Price

Click on the specific course dates on this page for pricing information. A quotation can be provided on request.

Course Enquiries

If you have any further questions, please call +44 (0)1462 713313, email support@methodfs.com or contact us online. If you wish to proceed, check your diary and reserve a place.