Mastering ISO 26262 for Automotive Functional Safety Leaders
You're under pressure. The pace of innovation in automotive systems is accelerating, and with it, the stakes for failure have never been higher. A single functional safety lapse can trigger recalls, regulatory penalties, and irreversible brand damage. You’re expected to lead with confidence, but the ISO 26262 standard is dense, complex, and constantly evolving. Current guidance leaves too many gaps. Generic training doesn’t address the real-world decisions you face as a functional safety leader-how to structure a safety case, justify ASIL ratings, or align cross-functional teams under tight timelines. You’re not just learning a standard. You’re accountable for delivering compliance, managing risk, and earning stakeholder trust. Mastering ISO 26262 for Automotive Functional Safety Leaders transforms uncertainty into clarity. This course equips you with a board-ready, auditable methodology to implement functional safety from concept to production, enabling you to go from overwhelmed to authoritative in under 90 days. Take Ravi Mehta, Senior Functional Safety Manager at a Tier 1 supplier. After applying the framework in this course, he led his team to achieve full ISO 26262 compliance for a new ADAS platform 40% faster than projected, reducing audit findings by 95% and securing executive funding for his next initiative. This isn't theoretical. It’s a proven, step-by-step system used by safety leaders in OEMs, suppliers, and engineering consultancies worldwide. You’ll gain the exact tools, templates, and decision logic needed to drive compliance, streamline audits, and position yourself as a strategic asset. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, On-Demand Access with Lifetime Updates
This course is designed for senior engineers and functional safety leaders with demanding schedules. It is fully self-paced, with immediate online access from any device. There are no fixed dates, no deadlines, and no time zones to coordinate. Most learners complete the core material in 8 to 12 weeks, dedicating approximately 4 to 6 hours per week. However, many report applying individual modules to active projects and seeing measurable improvements in review efficiency and ASIL alignment within the first two weeks. You receive lifetime access to all course content, including all future updates at no additional cost. ISO 26262 interpretations evolve, and so does this course. You’ll always have access to the most current guidance, methodology refinements, and updated templates-ensuring your knowledge stays future-proof. Mobile-Friendly, Global Access and Instructor Support
The course is optimized for 24/7 global access across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Whether you're on-site at a plant, in transit, or working remotely, your progress and materials sync seamlessly. Direct instructor support is available through structured response channels. You’ll receive guidance on complex ASIL classification scenarios, safety case structuring, and audit preparation. Responses are provided within 48 business hours, ensuring timely support without disrupting your workflow. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, a globally recognised provider of professional training in engineering standards and system safety. This credential is recognised by OEMs, suppliers, and regulatory reviewers, and is frequently cited in internal promotions and client engagements. The certificate validates your mastery of ISO 26262 implementation, not just awareness. It demonstrates your ability to lead functional safety initiatives with rigour, structure, and traceability-making it a valuable addition to your professional portfolio. Transparent, Risk-Free Enrollment
Pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees. What you see is exactly what you pay-no recurring charges, no surprise upgrades, no mandatory add-ons. We accept all major payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, ensuring secure and seamless transactions regardless of your location. Enroll with complete confidence. We offer a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you find the course does not meet your expectations, simply request a full refund-no questions asked. This is our commitment to you: zero risk, maximum upside. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access credentials and course entry instructions will be sent in a separate communication once your learner profile is finalised-ensuring a smooth and secure onboarding experience. This Works Even If…
- You’ve read the ISO 26262 standard but still struggle to apply it consistently across projects.
- You’re new to functional safety leadership and need to rapidly establish credibility with engineering teams and auditors.
- Your organisation lacks mature safety processes, and you’re tasked with building them from the ground up.
- You work in a fast-moving environment where traditional safety workflows feel too slow or bureaucratic.
This course was built for experienced practitioners who need more than definitions-they need execution. The methodology works because it is battle-tested in real automotive development cycles, not academic simulations. It bridges the gap between compliance and practicality. You don’t just learn the standard. You learn how to lead with it.
Module 1: Foundations of Functional Safety and ISO 26262 - Understanding the purpose and scope of ISO 26262 in automotive systems
- Defining functional safety in the context of electrical and electronic systems
- Key terminology: hazard, risk, safety goal, ASIL, fault tolerance
- Differentiating functional safety from cybersecurity and reliability
- Historical evolution of ISO 26262 and its industry impact
- The role of functional safety in autonomous and connected vehicles
- Regulatory drivers influencing adoption of ISO 26262
- Relationship between ISO 26262 and other standards such as IEC 61508
- Overview of the safety lifecycle: from concept to decommissioning
- Identifying stakeholders in the functional safety process
- Importance of top-down safety management and leadership
- Defining the Functional Safety Concept at the vehicle level
- Interpreting Part 1 to Part 12 of ISO 26262
- Establishing a safety culture within engineering teams
- Understanding confirmation measures and independent assessments
Module 2: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) - Defining the HARA process and its role in safety planning
- Identifying potential hazards related to system malfunction
- Using operational scenarios to map real-world use cases
- Assessing severity, exposure, and controllability for risk classification
- Calculating ASIL levels using the ISO 26262 matrix
- Differentiating between ASIL A, B, C, and D for various functions
- Handling ASIL decomposition and its limitations
- Dealing with ambiguous or borderline ASIL assignments
- Deriving safety goals from hazard analysis
- Documenting HARA outcomes with traceability
- Incorporating external factors such as weather, lighting, and road conditions
- Addressing new driver behaviours with automation
- Handling driver-in-the-loop scenarios in ADAS
- Using templates to standardise HARA across teams
- Balancing conservatism with practicality in risk estimation
Module 3: Functional Safety Requirements and Allocation - Defining functional safety requirements (FSRs) from safety goals
- Structuring FSRs for clarity, testability, and traceability
- Allocating safety requirements to system architecture elements
- Performing safety requirement decomposition across subsystems
- Handling distributed safety functions across suppliers
- Managing safety requirements in model-based development
- Using safety budgets to track requirement coverage
- Integrating functional safety requirements with non-functional requirements
- Handling safety requirements for over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements over time
- Tracing FSRs back to hazards and forward to technical implementation
- Aligning safety requirements with software and hardware constraints
- Creating reusable safety requirement libraries
- Evaluating supplier-provided safety requirements for compliance
Module 4: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety concepts
- Defining safety mechanisms at the system level
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and reaction
- Using diagnostic coverage metrics to justify safety mechanisms
- Selecting appropriate safety architectures (e.g., lockstep, monitoring)
- Integrating safety mechanisms into ECU and sensor designs
- Managing timing and latency in safety-critical systems
- Handling power supply and communication failures
- Designing fail-operational vs fail-safe strategies
- Addressing electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) concerns
- Using safety patterns for common subsystems
- Validating technical safety concept assumptions
- Documenting design decisions with safety justifications
- Reviewing technical safety concept with cross-functional teams
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 5
- Defining random hardware failure metrics: SPFM, LFM, PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage for hardware components
- Using FMEDA (Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis)
- Interpreting FMEDA reports from component suppliers
- Selecting semiconductors and passive components for ASIL compliance
- Designing circuits for fault tolerance and redundancy
- Incorporating built-in self-test (BIST) mechanisms
- Ensuring power supply integrity under fault conditions
- Handling thermal and mechanical stress in safety circuits
- Validating PCB layout for safety-critical signals
- Managing component obsolescence and supply chain risks
- Integrating hardware safety manuals into design
- Working with external hardware assessment labs
- Documenting hardware design choices for audit readiness
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Software-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 6
- Defining software safety requirements (SSRs)
- Mapping software architecture to technical safety concept
- Implementing software fault tolerance and error handling
- Using fault injection testing in software validation
- Selecting software development methods for ASIL levels
- Applying coding standards such as MISRA C for safety
- Managing complexity in safety-critical software
- Using static and dynamic analysis tools
- Ensuring traceability from code to safety requirements
- Handling software updates and version control
- Designing safe state transitions in embedded software
- Integrating watchdog timers and runtime monitoring
- Validating software integration at the ECU level
- Documenting software safety case for audits
Module 7: Safety Validation and Confirmation Measures - Understanding the role of safety validation in ISO 26262
- Designing validation plans for safety goals and requirements
- Conducting fault injection testing at system and component levels
- Planning and executing vehicle-level safety tests
- Using simulation and HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing
- Validating fail-safe and fail-operational behaviour
- Measuring diagnostic coverage through test results
- Integrating safety validation into overall verification
- Handling edge cases and rare fault combinations
- Documenting validation evidence for certification
- Working with independent safety assessors
- Preparing for audit trails and documentation reviews
- Establishing safety maturity metrics
- Ensuring validation is independent and rigorous
- Using checklists to ensure validation completeness
Module 8: Functional Safety Management and Organisational Processes - Establishing a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS)
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Engineer, Item Definition Owner
- Creating a safety plan for each project phase
- Managing safety activities across distributed teams
- Integrating safety into stage gate reviews
- Handling change management in safety-critical projects
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Ensuring competence and training of safety personnel
- Managing third-party suppliers and subcontractors
- Using tools for safety workflow automation
- Creating safety case documentation
- Ensuring compliance with independence requirements
- Managing safety culture and accountability
- Reporting safety metrics to executive leadership
- Updating processes based on lessons learned
Module 9: Integration of Functional Safety in Agile and Model-Based Development - Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Understanding the purpose and scope of ISO 26262 in automotive systems
- Defining functional safety in the context of electrical and electronic systems
- Key terminology: hazard, risk, safety goal, ASIL, fault tolerance
- Differentiating functional safety from cybersecurity and reliability
- Historical evolution of ISO 26262 and its industry impact
- The role of functional safety in autonomous and connected vehicles
- Regulatory drivers influencing adoption of ISO 26262
- Relationship between ISO 26262 and other standards such as IEC 61508
- Overview of the safety lifecycle: from concept to decommissioning
- Identifying stakeholders in the functional safety process
- Importance of top-down safety management and leadership
- Defining the Functional Safety Concept at the vehicle level
- Interpreting Part 1 to Part 12 of ISO 26262
- Establishing a safety culture within engineering teams
- Understanding confirmation measures and independent assessments
Module 2: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) - Defining the HARA process and its role in safety planning
- Identifying potential hazards related to system malfunction
- Using operational scenarios to map real-world use cases
- Assessing severity, exposure, and controllability for risk classification
- Calculating ASIL levels using the ISO 26262 matrix
- Differentiating between ASIL A, B, C, and D for various functions
- Handling ASIL decomposition and its limitations
- Dealing with ambiguous or borderline ASIL assignments
- Deriving safety goals from hazard analysis
- Documenting HARA outcomes with traceability
- Incorporating external factors such as weather, lighting, and road conditions
- Addressing new driver behaviours with automation
- Handling driver-in-the-loop scenarios in ADAS
- Using templates to standardise HARA across teams
- Balancing conservatism with practicality in risk estimation
Module 3: Functional Safety Requirements and Allocation - Defining functional safety requirements (FSRs) from safety goals
- Structuring FSRs for clarity, testability, and traceability
- Allocating safety requirements to system architecture elements
- Performing safety requirement decomposition across subsystems
- Handling distributed safety functions across suppliers
- Managing safety requirements in model-based development
- Using safety budgets to track requirement coverage
- Integrating functional safety requirements with non-functional requirements
- Handling safety requirements for over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements over time
- Tracing FSRs back to hazards and forward to technical implementation
- Aligning safety requirements with software and hardware constraints
- Creating reusable safety requirement libraries
- Evaluating supplier-provided safety requirements for compliance
Module 4: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety concepts
- Defining safety mechanisms at the system level
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and reaction
- Using diagnostic coverage metrics to justify safety mechanisms
- Selecting appropriate safety architectures (e.g., lockstep, monitoring)
- Integrating safety mechanisms into ECU and sensor designs
- Managing timing and latency in safety-critical systems
- Handling power supply and communication failures
- Designing fail-operational vs fail-safe strategies
- Addressing electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) concerns
- Using safety patterns for common subsystems
- Validating technical safety concept assumptions
- Documenting design decisions with safety justifications
- Reviewing technical safety concept with cross-functional teams
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 5
- Defining random hardware failure metrics: SPFM, LFM, PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage for hardware components
- Using FMEDA (Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis)
- Interpreting FMEDA reports from component suppliers
- Selecting semiconductors and passive components for ASIL compliance
- Designing circuits for fault tolerance and redundancy
- Incorporating built-in self-test (BIST) mechanisms
- Ensuring power supply integrity under fault conditions
- Handling thermal and mechanical stress in safety circuits
- Validating PCB layout for safety-critical signals
- Managing component obsolescence and supply chain risks
- Integrating hardware safety manuals into design
- Working with external hardware assessment labs
- Documenting hardware design choices for audit readiness
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Software-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 6
- Defining software safety requirements (SSRs)
- Mapping software architecture to technical safety concept
- Implementing software fault tolerance and error handling
- Using fault injection testing in software validation
- Selecting software development methods for ASIL levels
- Applying coding standards such as MISRA C for safety
- Managing complexity in safety-critical software
- Using static and dynamic analysis tools
- Ensuring traceability from code to safety requirements
- Handling software updates and version control
- Designing safe state transitions in embedded software
- Integrating watchdog timers and runtime monitoring
- Validating software integration at the ECU level
- Documenting software safety case for audits
Module 7: Safety Validation and Confirmation Measures - Understanding the role of safety validation in ISO 26262
- Designing validation plans for safety goals and requirements
- Conducting fault injection testing at system and component levels
- Planning and executing vehicle-level safety tests
- Using simulation and HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing
- Validating fail-safe and fail-operational behaviour
- Measuring diagnostic coverage through test results
- Integrating safety validation into overall verification
- Handling edge cases and rare fault combinations
- Documenting validation evidence for certification
- Working with independent safety assessors
- Preparing for audit trails and documentation reviews
- Establishing safety maturity metrics
- Ensuring validation is independent and rigorous
- Using checklists to ensure validation completeness
Module 8: Functional Safety Management and Organisational Processes - Establishing a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS)
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Engineer, Item Definition Owner
- Creating a safety plan for each project phase
- Managing safety activities across distributed teams
- Integrating safety into stage gate reviews
- Handling change management in safety-critical projects
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Ensuring competence and training of safety personnel
- Managing third-party suppliers and subcontractors
- Using tools for safety workflow automation
- Creating safety case documentation
- Ensuring compliance with independence requirements
- Managing safety culture and accountability
- Reporting safety metrics to executive leadership
- Updating processes based on lessons learned
Module 9: Integration of Functional Safety in Agile and Model-Based Development - Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Defining functional safety requirements (FSRs) from safety goals
- Structuring FSRs for clarity, testability, and traceability
- Allocating safety requirements to system architecture elements
- Performing safety requirement decomposition across subsystems
- Handling distributed safety functions across suppliers
- Managing safety requirements in model-based development
- Using safety budgets to track requirement coverage
- Integrating functional safety requirements with non-functional requirements
- Handling safety requirements for over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements over time
- Tracing FSRs back to hazards and forward to technical implementation
- Aligning safety requirements with software and hardware constraints
- Creating reusable safety requirement libraries
- Evaluating supplier-provided safety requirements for compliance
Module 4: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety concepts
- Defining safety mechanisms at the system level
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Designing for fault detection, isolation, and reaction
- Using diagnostic coverage metrics to justify safety mechanisms
- Selecting appropriate safety architectures (e.g., lockstep, monitoring)
- Integrating safety mechanisms into ECU and sensor designs
- Managing timing and latency in safety-critical systems
- Handling power supply and communication failures
- Designing fail-operational vs fail-safe strategies
- Addressing electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) concerns
- Using safety patterns for common subsystems
- Validating technical safety concept assumptions
- Documenting design decisions with safety justifications
- Reviewing technical safety concept with cross-functional teams
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 5
- Defining random hardware failure metrics: SPFM, LFM, PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage for hardware components
- Using FMEDA (Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis)
- Interpreting FMEDA reports from component suppliers
- Selecting semiconductors and passive components for ASIL compliance
- Designing circuits for fault tolerance and redundancy
- Incorporating built-in self-test (BIST) mechanisms
- Ensuring power supply integrity under fault conditions
- Handling thermal and mechanical stress in safety circuits
- Validating PCB layout for safety-critical signals
- Managing component obsolescence and supply chain risks
- Integrating hardware safety manuals into design
- Working with external hardware assessment labs
- Documenting hardware design choices for audit readiness
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Software-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 6
- Defining software safety requirements (SSRs)
- Mapping software architecture to technical safety concept
- Implementing software fault tolerance and error handling
- Using fault injection testing in software validation
- Selecting software development methods for ASIL levels
- Applying coding standards such as MISRA C for safety
- Managing complexity in safety-critical software
- Using static and dynamic analysis tools
- Ensuring traceability from code to safety requirements
- Handling software updates and version control
- Designing safe state transitions in embedded software
- Integrating watchdog timers and runtime monitoring
- Validating software integration at the ECU level
- Documenting software safety case for audits
Module 7: Safety Validation and Confirmation Measures - Understanding the role of safety validation in ISO 26262
- Designing validation plans for safety goals and requirements
- Conducting fault injection testing at system and component levels
- Planning and executing vehicle-level safety tests
- Using simulation and HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing
- Validating fail-safe and fail-operational behaviour
- Measuring diagnostic coverage through test results
- Integrating safety validation into overall verification
- Handling edge cases and rare fault combinations
- Documenting validation evidence for certification
- Working with independent safety assessors
- Preparing for audit trails and documentation reviews
- Establishing safety maturity metrics
- Ensuring validation is independent and rigorous
- Using checklists to ensure validation completeness
Module 8: Functional Safety Management and Organisational Processes - Establishing a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS)
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Engineer, Item Definition Owner
- Creating a safety plan for each project phase
- Managing safety activities across distributed teams
- Integrating safety into stage gate reviews
- Handling change management in safety-critical projects
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Ensuring competence and training of safety personnel
- Managing third-party suppliers and subcontractors
- Using tools for safety workflow automation
- Creating safety case documentation
- Ensuring compliance with independence requirements
- Managing safety culture and accountability
- Reporting safety metrics to executive leadership
- Updating processes based on lessons learned
Module 9: Integration of Functional Safety in Agile and Model-Based Development - Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Understanding hardware-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 5
- Defining random hardware failure metrics: SPFM, LFM, PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage for hardware components
- Using FMEDA (Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis)
- Interpreting FMEDA reports from component suppliers
- Selecting semiconductors and passive components for ASIL compliance
- Designing circuits for fault tolerance and redundancy
- Incorporating built-in self-test (BIST) mechanisms
- Ensuring power supply integrity under fault conditions
- Handling thermal and mechanical stress in safety circuits
- Validating PCB layout for safety-critical signals
- Managing component obsolescence and supply chain risks
- Integrating hardware safety manuals into design
- Working with external hardware assessment labs
- Documenting hardware design choices for audit readiness
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Software-specific requirements in ISO 26262 Part 6
- Defining software safety requirements (SSRs)
- Mapping software architecture to technical safety concept
- Implementing software fault tolerance and error handling
- Using fault injection testing in software validation
- Selecting software development methods for ASIL levels
- Applying coding standards such as MISRA C for safety
- Managing complexity in safety-critical software
- Using static and dynamic analysis tools
- Ensuring traceability from code to safety requirements
- Handling software updates and version control
- Designing safe state transitions in embedded software
- Integrating watchdog timers and runtime monitoring
- Validating software integration at the ECU level
- Documenting software safety case for audits
Module 7: Safety Validation and Confirmation Measures - Understanding the role of safety validation in ISO 26262
- Designing validation plans for safety goals and requirements
- Conducting fault injection testing at system and component levels
- Planning and executing vehicle-level safety tests
- Using simulation and HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing
- Validating fail-safe and fail-operational behaviour
- Measuring diagnostic coverage through test results
- Integrating safety validation into overall verification
- Handling edge cases and rare fault combinations
- Documenting validation evidence for certification
- Working with independent safety assessors
- Preparing for audit trails and documentation reviews
- Establishing safety maturity metrics
- Ensuring validation is independent and rigorous
- Using checklists to ensure validation completeness
Module 8: Functional Safety Management and Organisational Processes - Establishing a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS)
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Engineer, Item Definition Owner
- Creating a safety plan for each project phase
- Managing safety activities across distributed teams
- Integrating safety into stage gate reviews
- Handling change management in safety-critical projects
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Ensuring competence and training of safety personnel
- Managing third-party suppliers and subcontractors
- Using tools for safety workflow automation
- Creating safety case documentation
- Ensuring compliance with independence requirements
- Managing safety culture and accountability
- Reporting safety metrics to executive leadership
- Updating processes based on lessons learned
Module 9: Integration of Functional Safety in Agile and Model-Based Development - Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Understanding the role of safety validation in ISO 26262
- Designing validation plans for safety goals and requirements
- Conducting fault injection testing at system and component levels
- Planning and executing vehicle-level safety tests
- Using simulation and HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) testing
- Validating fail-safe and fail-operational behaviour
- Measuring diagnostic coverage through test results
- Integrating safety validation into overall verification
- Handling edge cases and rare fault combinations
- Documenting validation evidence for certification
- Working with independent safety assessors
- Preparing for audit trails and documentation reviews
- Establishing safety maturity metrics
- Ensuring validation is independent and rigorous
- Using checklists to ensure validation completeness
Module 8: Functional Safety Management and Organisational Processes - Establishing a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS)
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Engineer, Item Definition Owner
- Creating a safety plan for each project phase
- Managing safety activities across distributed teams
- Integrating safety into stage gate reviews
- Handling change management in safety-critical projects
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Ensuring competence and training of safety personnel
- Managing third-party suppliers and subcontractors
- Using tools for safety workflow automation
- Creating safety case documentation
- Ensuring compliance with independence requirements
- Managing safety culture and accountability
- Reporting safety metrics to executive leadership
- Updating processes based on lessons learned
Module 9: Integration of Functional Safety in Agile and Model-Based Development - Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Applying ISO 26262 in Agile and iterative development
- Adapting safety workflows for Scrum and Kanban
- Managing safety sprints and backlogs
- Integrating safety gates into Agile ceremonies
- Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for safety
- Linking SysML or UML models to safety requirements
- Automating traceability in model-based environments
- Validating safety properties in simulation models
- Handling incremental safety validation
- Ensuring consistency across iterative releases
- Managing version control for safety artefacts
- Using tools like MATLAB/Simulink for safety design
- Aligning functional safety with digital twin strategies
- Ensuring model validity and calibration
- Documenting model assumptions for audit purposes
Module 10: Supplier Management and Safety Collaboration - Defining safety responsibilities in supplier contracts
- Using safety assurance levels (SAL) for supplier components
- Reviewing supplier safety plans and work products
- Conducting supplier safety audits and assessments
- Managing safety work products across organisational boundaries
- Using interface agreements for safety-critical interfaces
- Handling intellectual property and data sharing
- Establishing joint review processes with suppliers
- Integrating supplier FMEDA into system-level analysis
- Managing dual-sourcing and supply chain continuity
- Ensuring supplier adherence to coding standards
- Validating supplier test results and evidence
- Using automotive SPICE and ISO 26262 alignment
- Creating supplier scorecards for safety performance
- Facilitating safety knowledge transfer across tiers
Module 11: Certification, Audit Readiness, and Functional Safety Assessment - Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Preparing for formal functional safety assessment
- Understanding the role of Notified Bodies and certification agencies
- Compiling the Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) package
- Ensuring completeness of safety documentation
- Conducting pre-assessment gap analyses
- Responding to audit findings and non-conformances
- Presenting safety cases to assessors effectively
- Handling technical queries during certification
- Managing timelines and deliverables for FSA phases
- Archiving safety evidence for long-term traceability
- Using checklists for audit readiness
- Training teams for audit participation
- Ensuring independence of safety verification
- Documenting lessons from prior audits
- Maintaining certification across product variants
Module 12: Advanced Topics and Future Trends in Functional Safety - Extending ISO 26262 to automated driving (SAE Levels 3–5)
- Applying SOTIF (ISO 21448) alongside functional safety
- Handling AI and machine learning in safety-critical functions
- Managing unknown unknowns in perception systems
- Integrating cybersecurity with functional safety (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing safety concerns in software-defined vehicles
- Safety implications of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
- Functional safety in battery management systems (BMS)
- Safety challenges in electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring safety in over-the-air (OTA) software updates
- Managing safety for multi-core processors
- Functional safety in domain controllers and centralised computing
- Addressing human-machine interface (HMI) safety
- Future revisions of ISO 26262 and emerging guidance
- Preparing for regulatory shifts in global markets
Module 13: Practical Application and Real-World Projects - Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop
Module 14: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - Finalising your portfolio of completed safety artefacts
- Submitting for the Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification in job applications
- Listing the credential on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Preparing for functional safety leadership interviews
- Negotiating salary and role advancement using certification
- Connecting with other certified professionals
- Accessing exclusive resources from The Art of Service
- Staying updated on ISO 26262 through official channels
- Joining professional safety engineering networks
- Transitioning from engineer to safety authority
- Leading safety initiatives in product strategy
- Influencing organisational safety maturity
- Contributing to internal safety standards
- Building a legacy of safety excellence
- Applying the course methodology to a real ADAS system
- Conducting a full HARA on a lane keeping assist function
- Deriving safety goals for automatic emergency braking
- Allocating functional safety requirements to radar and camera
- Designing a technical safety concept for a brake-by-wire system
- Creating a safety mechanism for motor controller failure
- Performing FMEDA on a power management IC
- Developing software safety requirements for platooning control
- Designing a validation plan for a fail-operational steering system
- Documenting a safety case for a battery disconnect unit
- Reviewing a supplier safety package for compliance
- Conducting a safety audit simulation
- Preparing a safety report for executive review
- Using templates to accelerate project delivery
- Presenting a safety case in a stakeholder workshop