Motivation
The essential driver for establishing functional safety in your products is product liability: in Europe product liability law is subject to §4 GPSG; in addition countries have individual regulations in place. Predominantly these require the manufacturers to adhere to state-of-the-art development which, from a legal perspective, includes conformance to safety standards. Incompliance may otherwise lead to state prosecutor investigation which, ultimately, might further result in a charge of bodily harm with fatal consequences against individuals in the organization.
With respect to product accreditation, automobiles currently do not need to receive authority approval as is the case in industry domains such as medical devices, aeronautics, and air traffic control.
For these reasons leading car manufacturers have set the goal of only distributing automobiles from 2011 on that have been developed according to ISO 26262, an automotive-specific derivative of the general worldwide safety standard IEC 61508. This means that all OEMs and tier n suppliers are expected to adapt their development and product lifecycle processes to comply with this automotive-specific standard.

Objectives
The participants will

• understand what exactly functional safety means and how it is distinguished from other terms.

• know the risks for managers emerging from product liability and liability of

• know the responsibilities of higher level managers for the development of safety-related systems in a road vehicle.

• be capable of identifying the necessary actions in their context of responsibility.

• Definition of terms
  • Security, safety, functional safety,  active safety, passive safety, usage safety

• Motivation for functional safety
  • Product liability
  • Product accreditation

• What functional safety is
  • The notion of „system“
  • Hazards, causal factors, accidents, safety goals
  • Hazard and risk analysis, Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL)
  • How to reduce risk, safety functions

• The functional safety lifecycle 
  • Implications for the organization
  • Management of functional safety
  • Required levels of independence of quality assurance
  • Qualification of safety engineers
  • Escalation paths
  • Embedding functional safety into quality management and reporting lines

The seminar is designed to allow discussions and dealing with specific questions oft he participants.

Upon request the trainer will explain more deeply the interrelations between ISO 26262 and further standards relevant to the automotive industry, i.e. CMMI^®, Automotive SPICE^® und ISO TS 16949.

Language

• English