Functional Safety Management Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the principles, objectives, and organizational requirements of functional safety management during the course.
• Evaluate the functional safety lifecycle and identify management responsibilities at each stage.
• Assess process hazards, risk reduction requirements, and the role of independent protection layers in reducing operational risk.
• Apply structured principles for defining and managing safety requirements for safety-related systems.
• Evaluate safety instrumented functions and their relationship to process hazards and risk reduction objectives.
• Develop effective procedures for verification, validation, testing, maintenance, and management of functional safety systems.
• Assess competency, documentation, configuration management, and organizational responsibilities within a functional safety framework.
• Apply management of change principles to modifications affecting safety-related systems and functions.
• Evaluate functional safety performance using testing, monitoring, audit, incident investigation, and performance indicators.
• Develop an actionable functional safety management improvement plan aligned with operational risk, lifecycle requirements, and organizational objectives.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain the principles and organizational importance of functional safety management.
• Describe the functional safety lifecycle and the management activities required throughout each phase.
• Analyze the relationship between hazards, risk, protection layers, safety functions, and risk reduction requirements.
• Identify the management responsibilities associated with safety instrumented systems and safety-related functions.
• Evaluate safety requirements and determine whether appropriate lifecycle controls are being applied.
• Assess verification, validation, proof testing, maintenance, and inspection activities for safety-related systems.
• Develop practical approaches for competency management, documentation, configuration control, and functional safety assurance.
• Apply management of change principles to modifications affecting safety functions and protective systems.
• Evaluate functional safety performance using audits, testing results, operational data, incidents, and performance indicators.
• Develop a practical functional safety management improvement roadmap for an industrial organization.

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