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Our 2025 programme

The course is comprised of three parts spread over two weeks and takes place virtually.

Intensive learning in three parts:

Part one: Introduction to functional safety

Part two: Management, design, assessment, and maintenance

Part three: Software safety and cyber security
Part one: Introduction to functional Safety

Part one day one

08:55 Teams open
09:00 Introduction to the Course
  • Module 1: The basics of functional safety 1
  • Module 2: The basics of functional safety 2
  • Module 3: The basics of functional safety 3
Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
12:30 Lunch
13:20
  • Module 4: Safety Lifecycles & Compliance
  • Module 5: Random Hardware failures, Systematic Failures & Modes of operation
Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
17:00 Open forum
17:30 Close

Part one day two

08:55 Teams open
09:00
  • Module 6: Strategy to achieve Functional Safety: Hardware Safety Integrity: Part 1
  • Module 7: Strategy to achieve Functional Safety: Hardware Safety Integrity: Part 2
  • Module 8: Strategy to achieve Functional Safety: Systematic Safety Integrity
Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
12:30 Lunch
13:30
  • Module 8: Strategy to achieve Functional Safety: Systematic Safety Integrity
  • Module 9: Functional Safety Assurance Measures
  • Module 10: Management of Functional Safety and Competence
  • Module 11: SIL Determination and ALARP Demonstration
Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
17:00 Open forum
17:30 Close
Part two: Management, design, assessment, and maintenance

Part two

09:55 Teams open
10:00 Welcome to the course
Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist
10:10 Session 1: Walkthrough example from Hazard and Risk Analysis to final design: Part 1
Esteban Bernechea, Principal Consultant | ORS Consulting (ORS)
11:10 Break
11:30 Session 2: Walkthrough example from Hazard and Risk Analysis to final design: Part 2
Chantal Sealey, Principal Consultant, ERM
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 3: Operation and Maintenance
Damian Marsden, Principal EC&I Engineer, ERM
14:30 Break
14:40 Session 4: Case Studies Including Interactive Examples
  • Case study 1: BP Texas City incident
  • Case study 2: CAPECO incident
  • Case study 3:  Boeing 737 Max
  • Case study 4:  Deepwater Horizon
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
16:40 End of course open session Q & A

Chair: Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist 
16:45 Close
Part three: Software safety and cyber security

Part three

08:55 Teams open
09:00 Session 5: Hardware Reliability: Data Sources and Modelling
Dave Green, Principal Consultant RPS | Consulting UK & Ireland
10:00 Break
10:10 Session 6: IEC 61508: Software Requirements
Dewi Daniels, Director, Software Safety Limited
11:10 Break
11:30 Session 7: Complex Semiconductors and Functional Safety
Tom Meany, Functional Safety Technical Specialist | Industrial and Instrumentation group, Analog Devices
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 8: Cyber Security and Safety
Dr Fan Ye, Technical Director, WSP
14:30 Break
14:40 Session 9: Artificial Intelligence: The Challenges
Riccardo Mariani, VP, Industry Safety, NVIDIA
15:40 Break
15:50 End of course open session Q & A
Chair: Ron Bell, Functional Safety Specialist 
16:30 Close

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