ISO 26262 Crash Course: Functional Safety Mastery

Name: ISO 26262 Crash Course: Functional Safety Mastery
Rating: 4.5 (6137 reviews)

Learn ISO 26262 from an Senior Functional Safety Manager | HARA, ASIL, FMEDA, Hardware Metrics and Safety Culture

Created byPaul Danci

Last updated 6/2026

English

German [Auto],English

What you'll learn

ISO 26262
Functional Safety
Automotive Safety Processes
Automotive Engineering
FMEDA
Hardware Metrics
Automotive

Course content

5 sections • 20 lectures • 4h 10m total length

Set the stage2:49
Understand how this platform works.
Back to basics5:19
Learn how harm, risk, and tolerable residual risk guide ISO 26262 functional safety for electrical and electronic vehicle systems, balancing unacceptable hazards with safeguards across passive, active, and preventive safety.
Back to basics
History of functional safety16:39
Trace the history of functional safety from IEC 61508 to ISO 26262 and related standards, and see how SOTIF, TS 5083, TR 5469, and PAS 8800 shape automotive safety.
ISO 26262, the standard11:14
Explore the evolution of automotive functional safety from early semiconductors to ISO 26262, including risk assessment, ASIL, V-model development, tailoring, and cross-domain interfaces for passenger vehicles.
ISO 26262, the standard

Organisational Functional Safety14:56
Project functional safety management13:02
Establish a structured project team and define responsibilities for ISO 26262 functional safety. Align the development plan, DIA, and safety plan to support a rigorous safety case.
Confirmation measures7:03
Explore ISO 26262 confirmation measures, including confirmation reviews, functional safety audits, and functional safety assessments, with independence and evidence-based pass/fail criteria.
Confirmation measures and management

Make cars safer1:49
Item Definition5:28
Define the item as a vehicle-level system implementing a function per ISO 26262, and develop the item definition work product with architecture, interfaces, KPIs, standards, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Item Definition
Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA)17:43
Learn hazard analysis and risk assessment (hara) per ISO 26262, defining harm, hazards, and operational situations, and deriving safety goals and ASIL for items and SEooCs.
Functional Safety Concept7:10
Design safer systems13:24
Explore functional safety at the system level under ISO 26262, comparing old and new cars, and outlining iterative development through safety concepts, safety measures and mechanisms, HSI, and verification.
Design safer systems
Integrate, verify, validate the system16:36
Explore how to integrate, verify, and validate automotive system behavior across hardware-software, system, and vehicle levels to ensure functional safety, ASIL compliance, and provide evidence through validation.

Bits and transistors3:16
Explore the core hardware and software bits in modern vehicles, linking ISO 26262 parts 5 and 6, with emphasis on traceable safety requirements, hardware-software integration, and next steps.
Specify and design hardware and software25:08
Learn how to derive hardware and software safety requirements under ISO 26262, design safety mechanisms, and ensure traceability across hardware architectural design, HSI, and software safety requirements.
Hardware and Software design and specification
Faults and failures22:46
Faults and failures
Safety Analyses for concept, system, software22:01
Master safety analysis methods in ISO 26262, including FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, and FMEDA, across concept, system, and software levels to assess hazards and ensure safety goals.
Safety Analyses 1
Hardware safety analyses29:17
Explore qualitative and quantitative hardware safety analysis in ISO 26262, using FMEA, FTA, and FMEDA to assess ASIL-related risks, safety mechanisms, and diagnostic coverage.
Safety Analyses 2
Integrate, verify and validate the hardware and software12:37
Learn how hardware and software integrate, verify, and validate within ISO 26262, using test case design, FMECA, and coverage metrics across unit, architecture, and embedded software testing.
Integrate and verify the hardware and software

Requirements

Be able to understand basic software and hardware engineering concepts

Description

Why do 20,000+ automotive engineers choose this course?

Because ISO 26262 training shouldn’t cost €3,000–5,000 or take weeks of your life.

I’m Paul Danci, Functional Safety Manager with 15+ years of automotive experience, working across Tier-1, Tier-2, and OEM environments, including real series projects, since the early days of ISO 26262.

This course is designed to give you a clear, practical foundation in automotive functional safety, focused on how ISO 26262 is actually applied in projects, not just how it’s written.

What you’ll be able to do after this course

Perform a Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA) and derive ASILs
Understand and calculate hardware safety metrics using FMEDA (SPFM, LFM, PMHF)
Create and understand core ISO 26262 work products used in real projects
Understand the V-model from vehicle level down to hardware and software elements
Speak confidently about ISO 26262 in technical discussions, reviews, and assessments

What’s covered

Functional safety fundamentals and ISO 26262 structure (overview of all parts)
Concept phase: Item Definition, HARA, Safety Goals, Functional Safety Concept
System, hardware, and software development, including ASIL decomposition
Hardware safety: fault taxonomy, FMEDA principles, metric calculations
Verification, validation, and the role of safety culture in development

Who this course is for

Engineers starting their first ISO 26262 functional safety project
System, hardware, or software engineers working in automotive
Project managers and technical leads who need to understand ISO 26262
Professionals transitioning into automotive from other safety-regulated industries
Engineers preparing for deeper functional safety training or certification

Why this instead of expensive classroom training?

Traditional classroom courses cost €3,000-5,000 and take 3-5 full days.
This course delivers the same foundational understanding in 4 focused hours, with lifetime access and updates, so you can learn at your own pace and revisit topics when needed.

If you want a practical, engineer-focused introduction to ISO 26262 that you can apply immediately, this course is for you.

Who this course is for:

Automotive SW Engineers
Automotive Software Engineers
Automotive Project Managers
Automotive Engineering Professionals

ISO 26262 Crash Course: Functional Safety Mastery

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Course content

First Steps4 lectures • 36min

Functional Safety and Management3 lectures • 35min

Vehicles and systems6 lectures • 1hr 2min

Bits and transitors6 lectures • 1hr 55min

Conclusions1 lecture • 3min

Requirements

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