
Draws on decades of software safety experience in aviation and maritime, including information, comms and technology, to illuminate practical safety standards as a system safety lead, trainer, and mentor.
Explore the IEC 61508 family and how independent protection systems complement basic process control to reduce risk within a quantitative tolerability framework, guided by safety integrity levels.
Please note that at one point in this lecture, I refer to a later lecture, which is only available on the more expensive, Thinkific version of this course. My apologies for any confusion caused to you.
Analyze the safety of functions in complex hardware and software using functional hazard analysis to identify safety consequences of failures early and guide risk-reducing requirements.
This course is on the Principles of Software Safety Standards.
Now, software safety can be a daunting subject. Software development is challenging, and it's a very risky business. Safety is also intangible, and people are nervous about it. You may look at this subject and wonder: how could I possibly get into software safety? How do you develop safe software? I don't even know where to begin … but it need not be so!
So, what are the LEARNING OBJECTIVES of this course?
Understand and apply generic SW safety standards;
List the 4+1 Principles & Understand each one of them;
Apply the 4+1 Principles with examples, in isolation and together;
Evaluate specific SW standards using the 4+1 Principles; and
Understand the limitations of standards and compensate for them.
Lessons in this Course:
Safe Software Principles;
Overview of Safe Software Standards;
Safe Software 4+1 Principles (with examples);
Standards DO-178C, IEC 61508 & ISO 26262;
Review of Standards; and
The Slide Pack.
Each lesson comes with a quiz to reinforce and test your learning.
Please note that this is NOT a course about coding!!!
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Learn safety from an industry professional with 25+ years of experience:
SW Engineering professional since 1994;
System Safety Engineering professional since 1996;
Domains: aviation (fast jets, ISREW & helicopters), ships, submarines, ICT, ATM, rail & road vehicles;
Programs: UK, US, European & Australian;
Roles: customer, supplier, consultant, DevOps & ILS; and
Current system safety lead, practitioner, trainer & Mentor.
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