Participant eligibility requirements

In accordance with the TÜV Functional Safety Program.

• A minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in the field of functional safety.

• University degree or equivalent engineer level responsibilities status as certified by employer.

 
Course Duration


Four (4) days: Training Provider by a TÜV Functional Safety Expert

The first three days are classroom setting instruction Practical exercises will performed throughout the course which will be based on real life examples, discussions for understanding IEC61508 / IEC61511 functional safety.

The last day consists of a two-part examination:

80 multiple choice questions

4 working problems

 
Language

Spanish and English

Course Approval Criteria

Passing score is 75%

 

Course Agenda Overview


Day 1

1.1        A review of the program in TÜV Functional Safety
1.2        What is Functional Safety?
1.3        International Standards IEC-61508 / 61511 (ANSI/S84.01-2004)
1.4        Other relevant international standards
1.5        Definition according to IEC 61511/ANSI/S84.01-2004
1.6        Introduction to Safety Life Cycle.
1.7        What is a Safety Instrumented System
1.8        What is a Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
1.9        Risks, Hazards and Protection Layers.
1.10      Introduction to Techniques for Determining SIL of the SIF

1.10.0   Methods for determining NIL / SIL
1.10.1 As Low As Reasonably Practicable
1.10.2 Quantitative Method described in IEC 61508             
1.10.3 Risk Matrix
1.10.4 Safety Layer Matrix
1.10.5 Risk Graph
1.10.6 Calibrated Risk Graph
1.10.7 Layers of Protection Analysis LOPA

Day 2

2.0      SIL Selection working examples
2.1      Management of Functional Safety.
2.2      What is Safety Requirements Specification (SRS).
2.3      How to build a SRS
2.4      Guideline and important points of a Safety Requirements Specification.
2.5      Design and Engineering in Safety Instrumented Systems.
2.6      Requirements for Hardware Fault Tolerance
2.7      Requirements for Application Software, Including Selection Criteria for Utility Software

 
Day 3

3.1     Verification and Validation.
3.2     Determination of PFD
          3.2.1 Determining the Failure Rate.
          3.2.2 Determination of Mean Time Between Repairs.
          3.2.3 Determination of diagnostic coverage.
          3.2.4 Determination of Safe Failure Fraction.
          3.2.5 Identification of Common Cause Failures
          3.2.6 Determination of the Test time.

3.3    PDF equations
3.4    Validation Methods SIS.
          3.3.1 Reliability diagrams.
          3.3.2 Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

 

Training Costs


Total price per participant is $ 2,900 US

The price includes course material, registration fees and TÜV Rheinland certificate, if exam has been passed successfully.


Contact

Victor Machiavelo Salinas

TUV FS Expert ID-141/09

 

Tel.: + 52 - 55- 3096. 5496 to 99