Mastering ISO 26262 for Functional Safety in Automotive Systems
You’re under pressure. Deadlines are tightening. Regulatory expectations are rising. And you need to ensure your automotive systems meet the highest standards of functional safety - with zero room for error. One misstep in your safety analysis could delay a critical project, risk certification, or worse - compromise vehicle safety. But what if you had a clear, proven, authoritative roadmap to master ISO 26262 from the ground up, built not for theory but for real engineering impact? Mastering ISO 26262 for Functional Safety in Automotive Systems is that roadmap. This is not a superficial overview. It’s a complete, step-by-step mastery system used by senior safety engineers, systems architects, and technical leads to transform uncertainty into confidence, compliance, and career momentum. One recent learner, a functional safety engineer at a Tier 1 supplier, used this course to lead their team’s ASIL D-compliant ECU development. Within six weeks, they delivered a full safety case to auditors - and passed ISO 26262 certification on the first attempt. This course delivers a complete, board-ready functional safety implementation - from hazard analysis to safety element out of context (SEooC) packaging - in under 60 days. You’ll produce auditable work products, deeply understand safety lifecycle integration, and earn a globally recognised Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. No guesswork. No outdated templates. Just structured, expert-vetted knowledge you can apply immediately. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Designed for Maximum Flexibility, Clarity, and Confidence
This is a self-paced learning experience with immediate online access. You control when, where, and how fast you progress - no fixed schedules, no mandatory live sessions, no time conflicts. Typical learners complete the full program in 6 to 8 weeks with 6–8 hours of weekly engagement. Many apply key concepts on day one, seeing measurable progress in hazard classification, safety goal definition, and FMEA integration within the first module. Your enrolment includes lifetime access to all course materials. Every future update - including new interpretation guidelines, technical revisions, and regulatory alignment changes - is included at no additional cost. This is not a one-time download. It’s a living, evolving body of knowledge that grows with the standard. Access is available 24/7 from any device, anywhere in the world. Whether you’re on a desktop in Stuttgart or reviewing key concepts on your tablet in Seoul, the interface is fully responsive, mobile-friendly, and engineered for clarity under pressure. Unmatched Instructor Support and Global Recognition
You are not learning in isolation. Every module includes direct access to subject matter experts with over 15 years of functional safety implementation across OEMs and suppliers. Submit questions through the secure portal and receive detailed, documented guidance - typically within 24 business hours. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This certification is recognised by leading automotive organisations worldwide and is regularly cited in internal promotions, technical audits, and supplier qualification packages. The Art of Service has trained over 120,000 professionals in critical engineering and compliance domains. Our ISO 26262 program is aligned with industry best practices and continuously updated based on real-world implementation feedback. Zero Risk, Full Transparency, Complete Trust
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- You’re new to functional safety and feel overwhelmed by ISO 26262’s complexity
- You’ve read the standard but struggle to apply it in real designs
- You’re transitioning from another safety standard (like IEC 61508) and need automotive-specific clarity
- Your team lacks a unified safety culture or documented processes
- You’re preparing for an auditor visit or supplier assessment
Our learners include systems engineers at global OEMs, embedded software leads at autonomous driving startups, and safety auditors validating compliance for third-party vendors. The material is role-specific, outcome-driven, and built for real engineering environments - not academic exercises. This is not theoretical. It’s what actual practitioners use to pass audits, accelerate development, and lead safety-critical programs with authority. You’re protected by full risk reversal. You don’t need to believe in us - just try it. If it doesn’t transform your understanding, you get every penny back.
Module 1: Foundations of Functional Safety and ISO 26262 Overview - Origins and evolution of ISO 26262
- Functional safety vs. other safety disciplines
- Scope and applicability across vehicle domains
- Understanding the safety lifecycle phases
- Relation to other standards (IEC 61508, ISO 13849)
- Regulatory drivers and global market requirements
- Role of OEMs, Tier 1s, and Tier 2s in safety responsibility
- Definition of functional safety in automotive contexts
- Key terms: hazard, risk, safety goal, ASIL
- Organizational roles in functional safety management
- Differences between development for series production and prototyping
- Understanding functional safety culture
- Overview of normative and informative parts of ISO 26262
- Interpreting technical reports (ISO 26262-10 to -12)
- How to navigate the standard efficiently
Module 2: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) - Defining vehicle operational modes and use cases
- Identifying potential hazards from system malfunctions
- Describing hazardous events with clear scenarios
- Assessing severity levels (S0 to S3)
- Evaluating exposure frequency (E0 to E4)
- Determining controllability (C0 to C3)
- ASIL determination using the risk matrix
- Differentiating between ASIL A, B, C, and D
- Handling ASIL decomposition principles
- Setting functional safety goals based on HARA output
- Mapping hazards to vehicle functions and subsystems
- Documenting HARA assumptions and boundary conditions
- Integrating human factors into hazard scenarios
- Using lookup tables and templates for consistency
- Validating HARA completeness with traceability
Module 3: Functional Safety Requirements and Allocation - Deriving functional safety requirements from safety goals
- Writing testable and verifiable safety requirements
- Structuring safety requirements hierarchically
- Allocating functional safety requirements to architectural elements
- Handling distributed development across multiple suppliers
- Managing interface safety requirements
- Integrating functional safety requirements into system specifications
- Distributing ASIL levels across components
- Applying ASIL tailoring and reduction techniques
- Dealing with mixed ASIL systems
- Creating safety requirement traceability matrices
- Using keywords compliant with ISO 26262-8
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements
- Reviewing safety requirements with cross-functional teams
Module 4: Technical Safety Requirements and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Specifying hardware and software safety mechanisms
- Designing for diagnostic coverage and fault detection
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Specifying safe states and fallback levels
- Designing watchdogs, self-tests, and error counters
- Allocating technical safety requirements to system components
- Partitioning safety-critical and non-safety-critical software
- Defining operating modes during fault conditions
- Specifying reset strategies and recovery procedures
- Designing for thermal, electrical, and environmental resilience
- Integrating over-the-air update safety constraints
- Specifying communication protocols with safety extensions
- Ensuring time determinism in safety-critical functions
- Documenting system design decisions in safety cases
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements per ISO 26262-5
- Selecting components with applicable safety data
- Performing single-point fault metrics (SPFM)
- Calculating latent fault metrics (LFM)
- Evaluating diagnostic coverage for hardware elements
- Conducting probabilistic safety assessment (FTA, FME(D)A)
- Selecting microcontrollers with safety features
- Using hardware abstraction layers for safety
- Validating hardware design assumptions
- Ensuring power supply and clock monitoring
- Designing safe reset circuits
- Applying current limiting and short-circuit protection
- Selecting memory with ECC or duplication
- Testing clock supervision and watchdog coverage
- Documenting hardware safety analysis results
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Defining software architectural safety requirements
- Selecting safe programming languages (e.g., MISRA C)
- Applying coding standards across the development lifecycle
- Partitioning software into safety and non-safety zones
- Implementing memory protection units (MPU)
- Designing task scheduling for real-time safety execution
- Implementing secure inter-process communication
- Specifying software fault tolerance mechanisms
- Managing interrupts and exceptions safely
- Using stack overflow detection and recovery
- Designing for secure boot and runtime integrity checks
- Integrating checksums and CRCs in data flows
- Defining software versioning and configuration control
- Validating software safety requirements traceability
- Documenting software architecture decisions
Module 7: Safety Mechanisms and Diagnostic Development - Classification of safety mechanisms (detection, mitigation, recovery)
- Selecting appropriate diagnostic strategies by ASIL level
- Designing online and offline self-tests
- Implementing periodic and continuous monitoring
- Developing fault injection testing procedures
- Calculating diagnostic coverage effectiveness
- Using windowed watchdogs and timing supervision
- Implementing plausibility checks for sensor inputs
- Developing cross-checks between redundant paths
- Validating safety mechanism robustness under corner cases
- Specifying diagnostic event logging and reporting
- Setting thresholds for fault classification
- Integrating diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with safety states
- Ensuring diagnostic coverage meets ASIL targets
- Documenting diagnostic design rationale
Module 8: Safety Validation and Verification Planning - Differentiating verification and validation in safety contexts
- Planning safety verification activities across lifecycle phases
- Developing a safety validation strategy document
- Writing verifiable test cases from safety requirements
- Selecting appropriate test methods (review, analysis, test)
- Using simulation, bench testing, and vehicle testing
- Specifying test environments for safety-critical functions
- Planning fault injection testing at component and system level
- Defining coverage criteria for testing (statement, branch, MCDC)
- Integrating tool qualification into verification
- Tracking verification results with traceability tools
- Conducting safety confirmation reviews
- Preparing for external audits and certification bodies
- Documenting independence in safety assessments
- Producing final validation summary report
Module 9: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and FMEA Application - Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Origins and evolution of ISO 26262
- Functional safety vs. other safety disciplines
- Scope and applicability across vehicle domains
- Understanding the safety lifecycle phases
- Relation to other standards (IEC 61508, ISO 13849)
- Regulatory drivers and global market requirements
- Role of OEMs, Tier 1s, and Tier 2s in safety responsibility
- Definition of functional safety in automotive contexts
- Key terms: hazard, risk, safety goal, ASIL
- Organizational roles in functional safety management
- Differences between development for series production and prototyping
- Understanding functional safety culture
- Overview of normative and informative parts of ISO 26262
- Interpreting technical reports (ISO 26262-10 to -12)
- How to navigate the standard efficiently
Module 2: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) - Defining vehicle operational modes and use cases
- Identifying potential hazards from system malfunctions
- Describing hazardous events with clear scenarios
- Assessing severity levels (S0 to S3)
- Evaluating exposure frequency (E0 to E4)
- Determining controllability (C0 to C3)
- ASIL determination using the risk matrix
- Differentiating between ASIL A, B, C, and D
- Handling ASIL decomposition principles
- Setting functional safety goals based on HARA output
- Mapping hazards to vehicle functions and subsystems
- Documenting HARA assumptions and boundary conditions
- Integrating human factors into hazard scenarios
- Using lookup tables and templates for consistency
- Validating HARA completeness with traceability
Module 3: Functional Safety Requirements and Allocation - Deriving functional safety requirements from safety goals
- Writing testable and verifiable safety requirements
- Structuring safety requirements hierarchically
- Allocating functional safety requirements to architectural elements
- Handling distributed development across multiple suppliers
- Managing interface safety requirements
- Integrating functional safety requirements into system specifications
- Distributing ASIL levels across components
- Applying ASIL tailoring and reduction techniques
- Dealing with mixed ASIL systems
- Creating safety requirement traceability matrices
- Using keywords compliant with ISO 26262-8
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements
- Reviewing safety requirements with cross-functional teams
Module 4: Technical Safety Requirements and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Specifying hardware and software safety mechanisms
- Designing for diagnostic coverage and fault detection
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Specifying safe states and fallback levels
- Designing watchdogs, self-tests, and error counters
- Allocating technical safety requirements to system components
- Partitioning safety-critical and non-safety-critical software
- Defining operating modes during fault conditions
- Specifying reset strategies and recovery procedures
- Designing for thermal, electrical, and environmental resilience
- Integrating over-the-air update safety constraints
- Specifying communication protocols with safety extensions
- Ensuring time determinism in safety-critical functions
- Documenting system design decisions in safety cases
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements per ISO 26262-5
- Selecting components with applicable safety data
- Performing single-point fault metrics (SPFM)
- Calculating latent fault metrics (LFM)
- Evaluating diagnostic coverage for hardware elements
- Conducting probabilistic safety assessment (FTA, FME(D)A)
- Selecting microcontrollers with safety features
- Using hardware abstraction layers for safety
- Validating hardware design assumptions
- Ensuring power supply and clock monitoring
- Designing safe reset circuits
- Applying current limiting and short-circuit protection
- Selecting memory with ECC or duplication
- Testing clock supervision and watchdog coverage
- Documenting hardware safety analysis results
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Defining software architectural safety requirements
- Selecting safe programming languages (e.g., MISRA C)
- Applying coding standards across the development lifecycle
- Partitioning software into safety and non-safety zones
- Implementing memory protection units (MPU)
- Designing task scheduling for real-time safety execution
- Implementing secure inter-process communication
- Specifying software fault tolerance mechanisms
- Managing interrupts and exceptions safely
- Using stack overflow detection and recovery
- Designing for secure boot and runtime integrity checks
- Integrating checksums and CRCs in data flows
- Defining software versioning and configuration control
- Validating software safety requirements traceability
- Documenting software architecture decisions
Module 7: Safety Mechanisms and Diagnostic Development - Classification of safety mechanisms (detection, mitigation, recovery)
- Selecting appropriate diagnostic strategies by ASIL level
- Designing online and offline self-tests
- Implementing periodic and continuous monitoring
- Developing fault injection testing procedures
- Calculating diagnostic coverage effectiveness
- Using windowed watchdogs and timing supervision
- Implementing plausibility checks for sensor inputs
- Developing cross-checks between redundant paths
- Validating safety mechanism robustness under corner cases
- Specifying diagnostic event logging and reporting
- Setting thresholds for fault classification
- Integrating diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with safety states
- Ensuring diagnostic coverage meets ASIL targets
- Documenting diagnostic design rationale
Module 8: Safety Validation and Verification Planning - Differentiating verification and validation in safety contexts
- Planning safety verification activities across lifecycle phases
- Developing a safety validation strategy document
- Writing verifiable test cases from safety requirements
- Selecting appropriate test methods (review, analysis, test)
- Using simulation, bench testing, and vehicle testing
- Specifying test environments for safety-critical functions
- Planning fault injection testing at component and system level
- Defining coverage criteria for testing (statement, branch, MCDC)
- Integrating tool qualification into verification
- Tracking verification results with traceability tools
- Conducting safety confirmation reviews
- Preparing for external audits and certification bodies
- Documenting independence in safety assessments
- Producing final validation summary report
Module 9: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and FMEA Application - Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Deriving functional safety requirements from safety goals
- Writing testable and verifiable safety requirements
- Structuring safety requirements hierarchically
- Allocating functional safety requirements to architectural elements
- Handling distributed development across multiple suppliers
- Managing interface safety requirements
- Integrating functional safety requirements into system specifications
- Distributing ASIL levels across components
- Applying ASIL tailoring and reduction techniques
- Dealing with mixed ASIL systems
- Creating safety requirement traceability matrices
- Using keywords compliant with ISO 26262-8
- Documenting safety requirement rationale and assumptions
- Managing changes to safety requirements
- Reviewing safety requirements with cross-functional teams
Module 4: Technical Safety Requirements and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Specifying hardware and software safety mechanisms
- Designing for diagnostic coverage and fault detection
- Incorporating redundancy, diversity, and fail-safe states
- Specifying safe states and fallback levels
- Designing watchdogs, self-tests, and error counters
- Allocating technical safety requirements to system components
- Partitioning safety-critical and non-safety-critical software
- Defining operating modes during fault conditions
- Specifying reset strategies and recovery procedures
- Designing for thermal, electrical, and environmental resilience
- Integrating over-the-air update safety constraints
- Specifying communication protocols with safety extensions
- Ensuring time determinism in safety-critical functions
- Documenting system design decisions in safety cases
Module 5: Hardware Design and ASIL Compliance - Understanding hardware-specific requirements per ISO 26262-5
- Selecting components with applicable safety data
- Performing single-point fault metrics (SPFM)
- Calculating latent fault metrics (LFM)
- Evaluating diagnostic coverage for hardware elements
- Conducting probabilistic safety assessment (FTA, FME(D)A)
- Selecting microcontrollers with safety features
- Using hardware abstraction layers for safety
- Validating hardware design assumptions
- Ensuring power supply and clock monitoring
- Designing safe reset circuits
- Applying current limiting and short-circuit protection
- Selecting memory with ECC or duplication
- Testing clock supervision and watchdog coverage
- Documenting hardware safety analysis results
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Defining software architectural safety requirements
- Selecting safe programming languages (e.g., MISRA C)
- Applying coding standards across the development lifecycle
- Partitioning software into safety and non-safety zones
- Implementing memory protection units (MPU)
- Designing task scheduling for real-time safety execution
- Implementing secure inter-process communication
- Specifying software fault tolerance mechanisms
- Managing interrupts and exceptions safely
- Using stack overflow detection and recovery
- Designing for secure boot and runtime integrity checks
- Integrating checksums and CRCs in data flows
- Defining software versioning and configuration control
- Validating software safety requirements traceability
- Documenting software architecture decisions
Module 7: Safety Mechanisms and Diagnostic Development - Classification of safety mechanisms (detection, mitigation, recovery)
- Selecting appropriate diagnostic strategies by ASIL level
- Designing online and offline self-tests
- Implementing periodic and continuous monitoring
- Developing fault injection testing procedures
- Calculating diagnostic coverage effectiveness
- Using windowed watchdogs and timing supervision
- Implementing plausibility checks for sensor inputs
- Developing cross-checks between redundant paths
- Validating safety mechanism robustness under corner cases
- Specifying diagnostic event logging and reporting
- Setting thresholds for fault classification
- Integrating diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with safety states
- Ensuring diagnostic coverage meets ASIL targets
- Documenting diagnostic design rationale
Module 8: Safety Validation and Verification Planning - Differentiating verification and validation in safety contexts
- Planning safety verification activities across lifecycle phases
- Developing a safety validation strategy document
- Writing verifiable test cases from safety requirements
- Selecting appropriate test methods (review, analysis, test)
- Using simulation, bench testing, and vehicle testing
- Specifying test environments for safety-critical functions
- Planning fault injection testing at component and system level
- Defining coverage criteria for testing (statement, branch, MCDC)
- Integrating tool qualification into verification
- Tracking verification results with traceability tools
- Conducting safety confirmation reviews
- Preparing for external audits and certification bodies
- Documenting independence in safety assessments
- Producing final validation summary report
Module 9: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and FMEA Application - Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Understanding hardware-specific requirements per ISO 26262-5
- Selecting components with applicable safety data
- Performing single-point fault metrics (SPFM)
- Calculating latent fault metrics (LFM)
- Evaluating diagnostic coverage for hardware elements
- Conducting probabilistic safety assessment (FTA, FME(D)A)
- Selecting microcontrollers with safety features
- Using hardware abstraction layers for safety
- Validating hardware design assumptions
- Ensuring power supply and clock monitoring
- Designing safe reset circuits
- Applying current limiting and short-circuit protection
- Selecting memory with ECC or duplication
- Testing clock supervision and watchdog coverage
- Documenting hardware safety analysis results
Module 6: Software Design and ASIL Compliance - Defining software architectural safety requirements
- Selecting safe programming languages (e.g., MISRA C)
- Applying coding standards across the development lifecycle
- Partitioning software into safety and non-safety zones
- Implementing memory protection units (MPU)
- Designing task scheduling for real-time safety execution
- Implementing secure inter-process communication
- Specifying software fault tolerance mechanisms
- Managing interrupts and exceptions safely
- Using stack overflow detection and recovery
- Designing for secure boot and runtime integrity checks
- Integrating checksums and CRCs in data flows
- Defining software versioning and configuration control
- Validating software safety requirements traceability
- Documenting software architecture decisions
Module 7: Safety Mechanisms and Diagnostic Development - Classification of safety mechanisms (detection, mitigation, recovery)
- Selecting appropriate diagnostic strategies by ASIL level
- Designing online and offline self-tests
- Implementing periodic and continuous monitoring
- Developing fault injection testing procedures
- Calculating diagnostic coverage effectiveness
- Using windowed watchdogs and timing supervision
- Implementing plausibility checks for sensor inputs
- Developing cross-checks between redundant paths
- Validating safety mechanism robustness under corner cases
- Specifying diagnostic event logging and reporting
- Setting thresholds for fault classification
- Integrating diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with safety states
- Ensuring diagnostic coverage meets ASIL targets
- Documenting diagnostic design rationale
Module 8: Safety Validation and Verification Planning - Differentiating verification and validation in safety contexts
- Planning safety verification activities across lifecycle phases
- Developing a safety validation strategy document
- Writing verifiable test cases from safety requirements
- Selecting appropriate test methods (review, analysis, test)
- Using simulation, bench testing, and vehicle testing
- Specifying test environments for safety-critical functions
- Planning fault injection testing at component and system level
- Defining coverage criteria for testing (statement, branch, MCDC)
- Integrating tool qualification into verification
- Tracking verification results with traceability tools
- Conducting safety confirmation reviews
- Preparing for external audits and certification bodies
- Documenting independence in safety assessments
- Producing final validation summary report
Module 9: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and FMEA Application - Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Classification of safety mechanisms (detection, mitigation, recovery)
- Selecting appropriate diagnostic strategies by ASIL level
- Designing online and offline self-tests
- Implementing periodic and continuous monitoring
- Developing fault injection testing procedures
- Calculating diagnostic coverage effectiveness
- Using windowed watchdogs and timing supervision
- Implementing plausibility checks for sensor inputs
- Developing cross-checks between redundant paths
- Validating safety mechanism robustness under corner cases
- Specifying diagnostic event logging and reporting
- Setting thresholds for fault classification
- Integrating diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with safety states
- Ensuring diagnostic coverage meets ASIL targets
- Documenting diagnostic design rationale
Module 8: Safety Validation and Verification Planning - Differentiating verification and validation in safety contexts
- Planning safety verification activities across lifecycle phases
- Developing a safety validation strategy document
- Writing verifiable test cases from safety requirements
- Selecting appropriate test methods (review, analysis, test)
- Using simulation, bench testing, and vehicle testing
- Specifying test environments for safety-critical functions
- Planning fault injection testing at component and system level
- Defining coverage criteria for testing (statement, branch, MCDC)
- Integrating tool qualification into verification
- Tracking verification results with traceability tools
- Conducting safety confirmation reviews
- Preparing for external audits and certification bodies
- Documenting independence in safety assessments
- Producing final validation summary report
Module 9: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and FMEA Application - Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Principles of qualitative and quantitative FTA
- Building fault trees from top-level hazardous events
- Identifying basic events and minimal cut sets
- Using Boolean logic gates (AND, OR, NOT)
- Performing FTA for both hardware and software failures
- Calculating top event probability with failure data
- Applying FTA to support SPFM and LFM calculations
- Integrating FTA with safety requirement derivation
- Conducting functional FMEA at system level
- Performing hardware FMEA with component failure rates
- Mapping FMEA results to safety mechanisms
- Using FMEA to improve diagnostic coverage
- Linking FMEA to DFMEA and PFMEA in automotive workflows
- Creating FMEA documentation for auditors
- Updating FMEA with field failure feedback
Module 10: Software and Hardware Integration Testing - Planning integration testing for safety-critical modules
- Defining interface test specifications
- Validating data exchange between safety and non-safety components
- Testing interrupt handling and priority conflicts
- Verifying memory allocation and protection
- Testing watchdog recovery and reset sequences
- Validating communication protocols (CAN, LIN, FlexRay) with safety extensions
- Checking timing constraints and jitter under load
- Monitoring power-up and shut-down sequences
- Testing fault propagation between components
- Using harnesses and stubs for isolated testing
- Documenting integration test results and coverage
- Analyzing test failures using root cause methodology
- Ensuring integration tests reflect real vehicle conditions
- Finalising integration test reports for audit submission
Module 11: Safety Case Development and Audit Readiness - Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Understanding the purpose and structure of a safety case
- Defining claims, arguments, and evidence (G-A-R model)
- Integrating work products into a coherent safety argument
- Linking HARA output to safety goals and requirements
- Mapping verification results to safety claims
- Ensuring traceability from hazards to test results
- Using graphical safety case notations
- Preparing for third-party auditor engagement
- Addressing common audit findings and non-conformances
- Responding to auditor questions with documented evidence
- Using checklists for complete safety case submission
- Creating executive summaries for management sign-off
- Storing safety case documents for long-term retention
- Updating safety cases for variant development
- Presenting safety cases to internal stakeholders
Module 12: Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) Development - Understanding SEooC in multi-supplier environments
- Defining assumptions of use for SEooC components
- Identifying known and unknown customer scenarios
- Documenting interface assumptions and environmental constraints
- Specifying configuration parameters for flexibility
- Developing generic safety requirements for SEooC
- Applying configurability in diagnostic mechanisms
- Reviewing customer-specific integration requirements
- Ensuring SEooC supports ASIL decomposition
- Validating SEooC with reference implementations
- Delivering SEooC work products to customers
- Managing SEooC updates and change notifications
- Integrating SEooC into vehicle-level safety cases
- Avoiding common pitfalls in SEooC assumptions
- Demonstrating SEooC compliance during audits
Module 13: Functional Safety Management and Organisation - Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Establishing a functional safety management plan
- Defining roles: Safety Manager, Safety Assessor, Safety Monitor
- Setting up internal safety reviews and milestones
- Creating a safety culture across engineering teams
- Managing supplier functional safety activities
- Conducting safety audits and process assessments
- Handling safety-related change requests
- Integrating functional safety into change management
- Documenting lessons learned and best practices
- Ensuring independence in safety assessment
- Aligning with corporate quality management systems
- Training teams on safety processes and templates
- Managing safety work product versioning
- Coordinating safety activities across global sites
- Reporting safety status to executive leadership
Module 14: Tool Qualification and Confidence Levels - Understanding when tool qualification is required
- Determining tool impact (T1, T2, T3) and confidence levels (CL)
- Assessing tools used in development and verification
- Selecting qualification options (Option 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Using pre-qualified tools from suppliers
- Conducting in-house tool qualification
- Documenting tool qualification cases
- Applying tool confidence arguments to auditors
- Managing tool updates and re-qualification
- Using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools safely
- Tracking tool usage in safety-relevant activities
- Eliminating false confidence in unqualified tools
- Integrating tool qualification into project planning
- Reducing qualification effort with proven tools
- Reporting tool qualification status in safety cases
Module 15: Advanced Topics in ISO 26262 and Future Integration - Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval
Module 16: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for third-party certification audits
- Organising audit documentation packages
- Rehearsing auditor interviews and walkthroughs
- Addressing common non-conformities proactively
- Using internal mock audits for readiness
- Engaging notified bodies and certification agencies
- Submitting work products for formal review
- Responding to audit findings with corrective actions
- Obtaining functional safety product certification
- Leveraging certification for market differentiation
- Building a personal portfolio of safety work
- Showcasing ISO 26262 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Communicating safety value to non-technical stakeholders
- Achieving promotions through demonstrated leadership
- Transitioning into specialised safety engineering roles
- Understanding the relationship between ISO 26262 and SOTIF (ISO 21448)
- Integrating cybersecurity considerations (ISO/SAE 21434)
- Addressing AI and machine learning in safety contexts
- Handling automated driving levels 3 and above
- Transitioning from ISO 26262:2018 to future editions
- Working with ASPICE and functional safety alignment
- Applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to safety
- Using digital twins for safety validation
- Managing safety in agile and iterative development
- Supporting over-the-air updates with safety assurance
- Developing safety for electric and hybrid powertrains
- Ensuring supply chain safety with multi-tier contracts
- Adapting to regional regulatory variations (UN R155, R156)
- Planning for long-term maintenance and field monitoring
- Preparing for autonomous vehicle type approval