Safety Measures at Glance
In order to achieve functional safety for an item it is important to apply relevant risk reduction measures for those hazardous events that have an unacceptable level of risk (which …
Functional Safety at Glance
Regardless of your industry, if you’re an engineer then I’m pretty sure you’ve encountered the term “Functional Safety” at least once in your career. And I bet you thought at …
Some books on (not only Functional) Safety
Now many of us have more spare time than usual. That may be an excellent opportunity to read up on things. In this post I will present a reading list …
Recommendations on ISO 26262 Hazards Analysis Procedure
Introduction As defined in ISO 26262-3 clause 6.4.2.2 the hazards shall be determined systematically based on possible malfunctioning behaviour of the item.These hazards are essentially vehicle level hazards which in …
Indicative Words for the Requirements
As practice shows just several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification across different standards. These words are often capitalized. This post copies important definitions of these …
Impact Speed and a Pedestrian’s Risk of Severe Injury or Death
Introduction Based on the study of AAA Foundation this post shares the summary of the original report that might be downloaded by the link below. The data analyzed in this …
Circuit part FMEA example
What is FMEA? Failure Mode and Effects Analysis – procedure that is standardized by IEC 60812 and required by most of functional safety, quality and reliability standards, part of any …