Functional Safety Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Functional Safety Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Functional Safety 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Functional Safety improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. How to divide the responsibilities between the safety system and the basic control system so that the system would remain operational as long as possible and as near the safety limits as possible?
   
   

2. Does line management operate your organization where risk management is done primarily through integrated systems that include safety and health requirements?
   
   

3. Are clear methods defined to address confidentiality, authenticity, integrity and availability of the communications and the transferred data?
   
   

4. Has the systematic capability of the system design been assessed considering the measures to avoid failures and measures to control failures?
   
   

5. How to avoid the situation in which the whole control system would need to be developed according to the IEC 61508 or other safety standard?
   
   

6. Are adequate resources assigned to establish, implement, maintain and improve the safety and health management system and performance?
   
   

7. Does the process consider how customer expectations and capabilities change based on the driving experience in automated driving mode?
   
   

8. Are some safety and health metrics monitored and reported to facility management on a regular basis, beyond regulatory requirements?
   
   

9. Does the verisafe absence of voltage tester verify it is operating satisfactorily before and after verifying the absence of voltage?
   
   

10. Is training designed to implement hazard identification and reporting programs with a focus on prevention and proactive measures?
    
    


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 Functional Safety book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Requirements Management Plan: Will you use tracing to help understand the impact of a change in requirements?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Are quality inspections and review activities listed in the Functional Safety project schedule(s)?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Is Functional Safety project status reviewed with the steering and executive teams at appropriate intervals?
   
   

4. Communications Management Plan: Who will use or be affected by the result of a Functional Safety project?
   
   

5. Risk Audit: Are requirements fully understood by the team and customers?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: In case of decisions not to conclude a procurement or award a contract, were tenderers informed in writing and on a timely basis of the already stated decisions and grounds?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Cwbs elements to be subcontracted, with identification of subcontractors?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: How do you address the risk of fraud and corruption?
   
   

9. Roles and Responsibilities: Once the responsibilities are defined for the Functional Safety project, have the deliverables, roles and responsibilities been clearly communicated to every participant?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Does the business case include how the Functional Safety project aligns with your organizations strategic goals & objectives?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Functional Safety project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Functional Safety project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety project with this in-depth Functional Safety Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety 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 Functional Safety investments work better.

This Functional Safety 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.