IEC 61508 Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical IEC 61508 Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any IEC 61508 related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated IEC 61508 specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IEC 61508 Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IEC 61508 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Does the acquisition strategy paper human factors input employ a strategy to ensure the system is well designed and appropriate for the workforce that will operate and maintain it?
   
   

2. Does the field element have an effective review process to ensure that all worker safety and health hazards associated with the contract and work site are adequately addressed?
   
   

3. Have human performance data been analyzed with respect to training effectiveness, task overloading, skill creep, safety, health hazard or procedural inadequacy issues?
   
   

4. What provisions are there for changes in specifications due to advances in technology or revisions in quality or quantity of materials/services being procured?
   
   

5. Does your organization identify and manage the human and physical factors of the work environment needed to achieve conformity of product/service?
   
   

6. Have constraints, limitations, and unique or specialized training requirements, staffing levels, or personnel skill requirements been addressed?
   
   

7. Are there any safety goals, limits, or other criteria implied by decisions or evaluations that have been made that are relevant to this area?
   
   

8. What methods, data results, safety goals, or regulatory requirements would be necessary to make it possible to risk inform similar cases?
   
   

9. Where in your business processes and systems should you apply the rules and validation checks to ensure accurate, high quality data?
   
   

10. Are workplaces in your establishment regularly checked for safety and health as part of a risk assessment or similar measure?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the IEC 61508 book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your IEC 61508 self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the IEC 61508 Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which IEC 61508 areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough IEC 61508 Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage IEC 61508 projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step IEC 61508 Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 IEC 61508 project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Audit: What mechanisms exist for identification of staff development needs?
   
   

2. Risk Register: What are your key risks/show istoppers and what is being done to manage them?
   
   

3. Cost Management Plan: If you sold 10x widgets on a day, what would the affect on costs be?
   
   

4. Decision Log: How effective is maintaining the log at facilitating organizational learning?
   
   

5. Procurement Management Plan: Is pert / critical path or equivalent methodology being used?
   
   

6. Network Diagram: Exercise: what is the probability that the IEC 61508 project duration will exceed xx weeks?
   
   

7. Activity Duration Estimates: Are steps identified by which IEC 61508 project documents may be changed?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Do at least two people have custodial responsibilities for negotiable checks (one checking on the other)?
   
   

9. Cost Management Plan: Scope of work – What is the scope of work for each of the planned contracts?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Account for the four frames of organizations. How can they help IEC 61508 project managers understand your organizational context for IEC 61508 projects?


 
Step-by-step and complete IEC 61508 Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IEC 61508 project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IEC 61508 project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IEC 61508 project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 IEC 61508 project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 IEC 61508 project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 IEC 61508 project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any IEC 61508 project with this in-depth IEC 61508 Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IEC 61508 projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in IEC 61508 and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make IEC 61508 investments work better.

This IEC 61508 All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.