Practical ISO26262 Tools for Functional Safety Engineers
You're under pressure. The complexity of automotive functional safety is rising, and ISO 26262 isn't just a checklist-it's your lifeline. Miss a requirement, and the cost is measured in recalls, not hours. But you’re not alone. Engineers like you are turning uncertainty into precision, transforming vague standards into real-world implementation. You’ve read the ISO 26262 standard. You’ve attended the compliance meetings. Yet applying it consistently across teams, tools, and vehicle systems still feels like pushing through fog. That ends today. Practical ISO26262 Tools for Functional Safety Engineers is your proven system for turning compliance into clarity. This is not theory. It’s a field-tested methodology used by world-leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to reduce safety case risks, accelerate audit readiness, and cut validation time by up to 47%. No fluff. Just tools, templates, and traceable workflows you can deploy tomorrow. Hear from Anika Patel, Senior Safety Engineer at a major EV manufacturer: “We reduced our ASIL decomposition review cycle from 3 weeks to 5 days by applying just Module 7. My manager called it ‘the fastest alignment we’ve ever achieved’-and we passed our audit on the first try.” This course bridges the gap between understanding ISO 26262 and executing it flawlessly under real development constraints. You’ll go from fragmented documentation and inconsistent tooling to a unified, tool-driven safety workflow-complete with a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service that validates your mastery globally. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, On-Demand, Always Accessible
This course is designed for engineers who need results, not rigid schedules. Enrollment grants immediate online access to a fully self-paced curriculum. There are no fixed dates, no attendance requirements, and no time zones to navigate. Most engineers complete the core material in 18 to 24 hours, with the first safety-critical workflow improvements visible within 72 hours of starting. You can progress in focused 20-minute sessions or deep-dive over weekends-your pace, your path. Lifetime Access & Continuous Updates
Your enrollment includes lifetime access to all course content. You’ll also receive ongoing updates as ISO 26262 evolves and new tool integrations emerge-all at zero additional cost. This is not a one-time download. It’s a living resource library you own forever. Mobile-Friendly & Globally Available
Access everything from your laptop, tablet, or phone. Whether you're in Stuttgart, Seoul, or Detroit, your materials are available 24/7 with full mobile compatibility. Study on your commute, reference tools during shift handover, or pull up templates in real-time meetings. Expert-Led Guidance with Practical Support
You’re never alone. Each module includes direct links to downloadable toolkits, audit checklists, and expert commentary. You’ll receive structured instructor support through curated guidance notes, real project references, and role-specific implementation tips-all designed to reduce friction and accelerate adoption. Proven Results, Verified Certification
Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This certification is recognised across automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and regulatory consultants worldwide. It’s not just a credential-it’s evidence of your ability to implement ISO 26262 with precision and confidence. Fair, Transparent Pricing-No Hidden Fees
The price you see is the price you pay. There are no hidden charges, no subscription traps, and no surprise fees. This is a one-time investment in your technical authority and career resilience. Accepted Payment Methods
We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal-securely processed with bank-level encryption. Your payment is protected, fast, and frictionless. Zero-Risk Enrollment: Satisfied or Refunded
We offer a full money-back guarantee. If you complete the first two modules and don’t find immediate value in the tools and frameworks, simply request a refund. No questions, no hassle. We remove the risk so you can focus on the results. Instant Confirmation, Verified Access
After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your course access details will be sent separately once your learning environment is fully prepared-ensuring everything works perfectly before you begin. “Will This Work for Me?” - Your Top Concern, Addressed
You might be thinking: “I’ve tried other courses. They were too academic. Too slow. Too disconnected from my daily tools.” This is different. This works even if you’re not the author of your company’s safety plan. Even if your team uses a mix of MATLAB, DOORS, or custom tools. Even if you're transitioning from compliance tracking to hands-on safety architecture. This works even if you’ve never led a full safety case from concept to production. Why? Because every tool, template, and decision matrix is built around actual project workflows used by top functional safety teams. You’ll apply what you learn the same day. For example, one engineer used the hazard analysis template from Module 3 to restructure their FMEA process-and reduced review iterations by 40% in their next project phase.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of ISO 26262 in Real-World Engineering - Understanding the scope and applicability of ISO 26262 in modern vehicle systems
- The role of functional safety in electric, hybrid, and autonomous platforms
- Differences between functional safety, system safety, and cybersecurity
- Key terms: hazard, risk, ASIL, functional safety concept, safety goal
- How ISO 26262 aligns with other standards like ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and ISO 21434
- The safety lifecycle from concept to decommissioning
- Stakeholder roles: safety manager, system engineer, software developer
- Common misconceptions and pitfalls in early-phase safety planning
- Integrating safety into agile and model-based development workflows
- Traceability requirements across safety work products
Module 2: Structural Frameworks for Safety-Critical Development - Decomposing vehicle functions into safety-relevant components
- Identifying safety boundaries and interfaces
- Establishing functional safety requirements at system level
- The difference between functional and technical safety requirements
- Applying the V-model to safety validation and verification
- Defining safety mechanisms and redundancy strategies
- Creating and maintaining a safety case dossier
- Documenting assumptions, constraints, and omissions
- Linking hazard analysis to system architecture diagrams
- Using architectural patterns to reduce ASIL decomposition risks
Module 3: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) Toolkit - Step-by-step HARA execution using real vehicle scenarios
- Classifying operational modes and driving situations
- Determining severity, exposure, and controllability
- ASIL determination tables with practical examples
- Managing ASIL 2 vs ASIL D trade-offs in multi-domain systems
- Resolving conflicting ASIL assignments across subsystems
- Using spreadsheets and requirement tools for traceable HARA
- Integrating HARA outputs into FMEA and FTA
- Documenting fallback and degraded modes
- Review techniques for HARA acceptance by safety auditors
Module 4: Functional Safety Concept Development - Translating safety goals into functional safety requirements
- The role of functional safety concepts in system integration
- Allocating safety requirements to distributed ECUs
- Handling cross-functional safety interactions
- Using interface control documents for safety-critical signals
- Managing redundancy and fail-operational strategies
- Designing for safe states and graceful degradation
- Specifying diagnostic coverage targets
- Integrating fault detection and response timing
- Validating concept completeness with gap analysis
Module 5: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Mapping safety mechanisms to hardware and software components
- Using fault trees to identify single points of failure
- Incorporating diagnostics, watchdogs, and memory checks
- Selecting microcontrollers with appropriate diagnostic features
- Defining hardware metrics: SPFM, LMFM, and PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage using semi-formal methods
- Integrating safety managers into real-time operating systems
- Managing clock, power, and communication monitoring
- Developing interface specifications for safety-critical buses
Module 6: Software-Level Safety Implementation - Translating technical safety requirements to software modules
- Allocating safety mechanisms across software layers
- Designing fail-safe software states and transitions
- Coding for functional safety using MISRA C and AUTOSAR
- Implementing software self-tests and periodic checks
- Using watchdogs, stack monitoring, and run-time checks
- Handling fault injection and recovery routines
- Ensuring timing predictability in safety-critical tasks
- Version control and baselining for safety software
- Code review checklists for safety compliance
Module 7: Tool Integration and Automation Strategies - Selecting tools based on ISO 26262 tool confidence levels
- Validating requirement management tools like DOORS and Jama
- Configuring static analysis tools for safety coding standards
- Integrating model-based tools like MATLAB/Simulink safely
- Automating traceability between requirements and code
- Using Python scripts for safety metric calculations
- Generating safety case evidence automatically
- Validating test execution frameworks for compliance
- Managing tool qualification packages
- Setting up audit-ready output formats for safety reports
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing - Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
Module 1: Foundations of ISO 26262 in Real-World Engineering - Understanding the scope and applicability of ISO 26262 in modern vehicle systems
- The role of functional safety in electric, hybrid, and autonomous platforms
- Differences between functional safety, system safety, and cybersecurity
- Key terms: hazard, risk, ASIL, functional safety concept, safety goal
- How ISO 26262 aligns with other standards like ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and ISO 21434
- The safety lifecycle from concept to decommissioning
- Stakeholder roles: safety manager, system engineer, software developer
- Common misconceptions and pitfalls in early-phase safety planning
- Integrating safety into agile and model-based development workflows
- Traceability requirements across safety work products
Module 2: Structural Frameworks for Safety-Critical Development - Decomposing vehicle functions into safety-relevant components
- Identifying safety boundaries and interfaces
- Establishing functional safety requirements at system level
- The difference between functional and technical safety requirements
- Applying the V-model to safety validation and verification
- Defining safety mechanisms and redundancy strategies
- Creating and maintaining a safety case dossier
- Documenting assumptions, constraints, and omissions
- Linking hazard analysis to system architecture diagrams
- Using architectural patterns to reduce ASIL decomposition risks
Module 3: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) Toolkit - Step-by-step HARA execution using real vehicle scenarios
- Classifying operational modes and driving situations
- Determining severity, exposure, and controllability
- ASIL determination tables with practical examples
- Managing ASIL 2 vs ASIL D trade-offs in multi-domain systems
- Resolving conflicting ASIL assignments across subsystems
- Using spreadsheets and requirement tools for traceable HARA
- Integrating HARA outputs into FMEA and FTA
- Documenting fallback and degraded modes
- Review techniques for HARA acceptance by safety auditors
Module 4: Functional Safety Concept Development - Translating safety goals into functional safety requirements
- The role of functional safety concepts in system integration
- Allocating safety requirements to distributed ECUs
- Handling cross-functional safety interactions
- Using interface control documents for safety-critical signals
- Managing redundancy and fail-operational strategies
- Designing for safe states and graceful degradation
- Specifying diagnostic coverage targets
- Integrating fault detection and response timing
- Validating concept completeness with gap analysis
Module 5: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Mapping safety mechanisms to hardware and software components
- Using fault trees to identify single points of failure
- Incorporating diagnostics, watchdogs, and memory checks
- Selecting microcontrollers with appropriate diagnostic features
- Defining hardware metrics: SPFM, LMFM, and PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage using semi-formal methods
- Integrating safety managers into real-time operating systems
- Managing clock, power, and communication monitoring
- Developing interface specifications for safety-critical buses
Module 6: Software-Level Safety Implementation - Translating technical safety requirements to software modules
- Allocating safety mechanisms across software layers
- Designing fail-safe software states and transitions
- Coding for functional safety using MISRA C and AUTOSAR
- Implementing software self-tests and periodic checks
- Using watchdogs, stack monitoring, and run-time checks
- Handling fault injection and recovery routines
- Ensuring timing predictability in safety-critical tasks
- Version control and baselining for safety software
- Code review checklists for safety compliance
Module 7: Tool Integration and Automation Strategies - Selecting tools based on ISO 26262 tool confidence levels
- Validating requirement management tools like DOORS and Jama
- Configuring static analysis tools for safety coding standards
- Integrating model-based tools like MATLAB/Simulink safely
- Automating traceability between requirements and code
- Using Python scripts for safety metric calculations
- Generating safety case evidence automatically
- Validating test execution frameworks for compliance
- Managing tool qualification packages
- Setting up audit-ready output formats for safety reports
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing - Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Decomposing vehicle functions into safety-relevant components
- Identifying safety boundaries and interfaces
- Establishing functional safety requirements at system level
- The difference between functional and technical safety requirements
- Applying the V-model to safety validation and verification
- Defining safety mechanisms and redundancy strategies
- Creating and maintaining a safety case dossier
- Documenting assumptions, constraints, and omissions
- Linking hazard analysis to system architecture diagrams
- Using architectural patterns to reduce ASIL decomposition risks
Module 3: Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) Toolkit - Step-by-step HARA execution using real vehicle scenarios
- Classifying operational modes and driving situations
- Determining severity, exposure, and controllability
- ASIL determination tables with practical examples
- Managing ASIL 2 vs ASIL D trade-offs in multi-domain systems
- Resolving conflicting ASIL assignments across subsystems
- Using spreadsheets and requirement tools for traceable HARA
- Integrating HARA outputs into FMEA and FTA
- Documenting fallback and degraded modes
- Review techniques for HARA acceptance by safety auditors
Module 4: Functional Safety Concept Development - Translating safety goals into functional safety requirements
- The role of functional safety concepts in system integration
- Allocating safety requirements to distributed ECUs
- Handling cross-functional safety interactions
- Using interface control documents for safety-critical signals
- Managing redundancy and fail-operational strategies
- Designing for safe states and graceful degradation
- Specifying diagnostic coverage targets
- Integrating fault detection and response timing
- Validating concept completeness with gap analysis
Module 5: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Mapping safety mechanisms to hardware and software components
- Using fault trees to identify single points of failure
- Incorporating diagnostics, watchdogs, and memory checks
- Selecting microcontrollers with appropriate diagnostic features
- Defining hardware metrics: SPFM, LMFM, and PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage using semi-formal methods
- Integrating safety managers into real-time operating systems
- Managing clock, power, and communication monitoring
- Developing interface specifications for safety-critical buses
Module 6: Software-Level Safety Implementation - Translating technical safety requirements to software modules
- Allocating safety mechanisms across software layers
- Designing fail-safe software states and transitions
- Coding for functional safety using MISRA C and AUTOSAR
- Implementing software self-tests and periodic checks
- Using watchdogs, stack monitoring, and run-time checks
- Handling fault injection and recovery routines
- Ensuring timing predictability in safety-critical tasks
- Version control and baselining for safety software
- Code review checklists for safety compliance
Module 7: Tool Integration and Automation Strategies - Selecting tools based on ISO 26262 tool confidence levels
- Validating requirement management tools like DOORS and Jama
- Configuring static analysis tools for safety coding standards
- Integrating model-based tools like MATLAB/Simulink safely
- Automating traceability between requirements and code
- Using Python scripts for safety metric calculations
- Generating safety case evidence automatically
- Validating test execution frameworks for compliance
- Managing tool qualification packages
- Setting up audit-ready output formats for safety reports
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing - Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Translating safety goals into functional safety requirements
- The role of functional safety concepts in system integration
- Allocating safety requirements to distributed ECUs
- Handling cross-functional safety interactions
- Using interface control documents for safety-critical signals
- Managing redundancy and fail-operational strategies
- Designing for safe states and graceful degradation
- Specifying diagnostic coverage targets
- Integrating fault detection and response timing
- Validating concept completeness with gap analysis
Module 5: Technical Safety Concept and System Design - Transitioning from functional to technical safety requirements
- Mapping safety mechanisms to hardware and software components
- Using fault trees to identify single points of failure
- Incorporating diagnostics, watchdogs, and memory checks
- Selecting microcontrollers with appropriate diagnostic features
- Defining hardware metrics: SPFM, LMFM, and PMHF
- Calculating diagnostic coverage using semi-formal methods
- Integrating safety managers into real-time operating systems
- Managing clock, power, and communication monitoring
- Developing interface specifications for safety-critical buses
Module 6: Software-Level Safety Implementation - Translating technical safety requirements to software modules
- Allocating safety mechanisms across software layers
- Designing fail-safe software states and transitions
- Coding for functional safety using MISRA C and AUTOSAR
- Implementing software self-tests and periodic checks
- Using watchdogs, stack monitoring, and run-time checks
- Handling fault injection and recovery routines
- Ensuring timing predictability in safety-critical tasks
- Version control and baselining for safety software
- Code review checklists for safety compliance
Module 7: Tool Integration and Automation Strategies - Selecting tools based on ISO 26262 tool confidence levels
- Validating requirement management tools like DOORS and Jama
- Configuring static analysis tools for safety coding standards
- Integrating model-based tools like MATLAB/Simulink safely
- Automating traceability between requirements and code
- Using Python scripts for safety metric calculations
- Generating safety case evidence automatically
- Validating test execution frameworks for compliance
- Managing tool qualification packages
- Setting up audit-ready output formats for safety reports
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing - Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Translating technical safety requirements to software modules
- Allocating safety mechanisms across software layers
- Designing fail-safe software states and transitions
- Coding for functional safety using MISRA C and AUTOSAR
- Implementing software self-tests and periodic checks
- Using watchdogs, stack monitoring, and run-time checks
- Handling fault injection and recovery routines
- Ensuring timing predictability in safety-critical tasks
- Version control and baselining for safety software
- Code review checklists for safety compliance
Module 7: Tool Integration and Automation Strategies - Selecting tools based on ISO 26262 tool confidence levels
- Validating requirement management tools like DOORS and Jama
- Configuring static analysis tools for safety coding standards
- Integrating model-based tools like MATLAB/Simulink safely
- Automating traceability between requirements and code
- Using Python scripts for safety metric calculations
- Generating safety case evidence automatically
- Validating test execution frameworks for compliance
- Managing tool qualification packages
- Setting up audit-ready output formats for safety reports
Module 8: Verification, Validation, and Testing - Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Differences between verification, validation, and confirmation
- Test planning for full safety lifecycle coverage
- Designing test cases from safety requirements
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing for safety mechanisms
- Integrating fault injection testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Validating diagnostic coverage with statistical models
- Recording test results with full traceability
- Performing integration testing across safety domains
- Reviewing test evidence for auditor acceptance
- Managing test waivers and deviations
Module 9: Safety Artifacts and Documentation Standards - Creating audit-ready safety plans and safety cases
- Standardising document templates across teams
- Using versioned document management systems
- Ensuring readability and reviewability of safety documents
- Linking work products to work breakdown structures
- Automating document generation from requirement databases
- Complying with configuration management standards
- Handling document review and approval workflows
- Preparing for external audits and assessments
- Using checklists to ensure completeness before submission
Module 10: Process Assessment and Functional Safety Management - Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Establishing a functional safety management system
- Defining roles and responsibilities for safety-critical roles
- Setting up safety planning and monitoring processes
- Managing safety culture within engineering teams
- Conducting internal safety audits and reviews
- Tracking safety metrics and KPIs over time
- Handling changes to requirements and designs
- Implementing configuration management for safety items
- Managing interfaces with suppliers and partners
- Ensuring organisational competence and training plans
Module 11: Supplier Management and Safety Integration - Defining safety requirements for external suppliers
- Assessing supplier functional safety competence
- Conducting supplier safety audits and evaluations
- Managing safety record handover at delivery
- Integrating supplier safety evidence into your safety case
- Handling dual-responsibility scenarios
- Using supplier questionnaires and competence checklists
- Managing ASIL decomposition across organisational boundaries
- Resolving conflicts in supplier safety claims
- Establishing clear communication channels for safety issues
Module 12: ASIL Decomposition and Safety Redundancy - Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Understanding the conditions for ASIL decomposition
- Applying ASIL decomposition to reduce component burden
- Ensuring independence between redundant safety paths
- Validating decomposition claims with evidence
- Documenting decomposition decisions in safety case
- Managing common cause failures in decomposed systems
- Using diversity techniques to enhance independence
- Integrating redundant sensors and actuators
- Handling timing alignment in redundant channels
- Auditing ASIL decomposition for compliance
Module 13: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Modelling - Constructing fault trees for top-level safety events
- Using AND, OR, and voting gates in fault logic
- Importing system architectures into FTA tools
- Calculating failure probabilities using reliability databases
- Linking FTA results to hardware metrics
- Validating fault tree completeness and accuracy
- Automating FTA updates from design changes
- Generating cut sets for root cause analysis
- Using FTA to guide diagnostic strategy
- Presenting FTA results to non-technical stakeholders
Module 14: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Safety - Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Applying FMEA at system, hardware, and software levels
- Structuring FMEA for traceability to safety goals
- Linking FMEA to control plans and diagnostics
- Using severity, occurrence, and detection ratings
- Automating FMEA updates from requirement changes
- Integrating FMEA with fault injection results
- Visualising FMEA coverage across subsystems
- Managing FMEA review and sign-off processes
- Using FMEA to verify safety mechanism effectiveness
- Exporting FMEA data for auditor reporting
Module 15: Hardware Safety Metrics Calculation and Evaluation - Understanding SPFM, LFPM, and PMHF calculations
- Extracting failure rate data from component databases
- Using failure rate estimation methods for unknowns
- Validating diagnostic coverage assumptions
- Applying simplification rules for metric compliance
- Calculating metrics with spreadsheets and tools
- Visualising metric trends across design iterations
- Handling analogue and power components in analysis
- Documenting assumptions and uncertainty margins
- Presenting hardware metrics to safety assessors
Module 16: Software Safety Metrics and Structural Coverage - Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Determining required structural coverage per ASIL
- Using coverage tools: statement, branch, MC/DC
- Handling unreachable code and justified gaps
- Generating coverage reports with traceable evidence
- Integrating coverage data into safety cases
- Managing test case traceability to requirements
- Using coverage thresholds to drive test completion
- Applying coverage analysis to model-based code
- Reviewing coverage evidence for internal audits
- Escalating coverage shortfalls with mitigation plans
Module 17: Change Management and Configuration Control - Establishing baselines for safety-critical items
- Managing change requests with impact analysis
- Performing safety impact assessments for design changes
- Using configuration management tools for traceability
- Versioning safety documents and requirements
- Handling emergency bypasses and field updates
- Ensuring safety implications are reviewed before approval
- Archiving historical versions for audit purposes
- Integrating change management with release processes
- Automating change notifications across teams
Module 18: Functional Safety Audits and Assessments - Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Preparing for internal and external safety audits
- Building a complete audit portfolio of evidence
- Simulating auditor interviews with role-play scenarios
- Handling non-conformities and observations
- Using audit checklists to pre-verify readiness
- Presenting your safety case to third-party assessors
- Responding to auditor questions with confidence
- Managing auditor access to documents and tools
- Tracking audit action items to closure
- Using audit feedback to improve future projects
Module 19: Certification and Compliance Evidence Packaging - Assembling a complete ISO 26262 certification package
- Organising work products by lifecycle phase and clause
- Labelling and indexing documents for easy retrieval
- Using digital packaging tools for submission
- Ensuring all safety goals are addressed
- Validating trace link completeness
- Conducting final safety case walk-throughs
- Preparing executive summaries for management
- Anticipating assessor questions and concerns
- Delivering compliance evidence with zero gaps
Module 20: Career Advancement and Leadership in Functional Safety - Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy
- Positioning yourself as a safety authority within your organisation
- Using your Certificate of Completion to demonstrate expertise
- Leading safety reviews and cross-functional meetings
- Transitioning from contributor to safety lead
- Developing a personal roadmap for safety mastery
- Building credibility through consistent documentation
- Sharing best practices across teams
- Mentoring junior engineers in safety principles
- Engaging with industry forums and working groups
- Using your skills to influence product strategy