exida launches self-paced functional safety engineering course
Functional safety engineering services and certification company exida has launched a self-paced training course FSE 110 — Machine Functional Safety Engineering.
IEC61508 is the foundation for many industries, including Machine Safety. Today, ISO13849 and IEC62061 are two main distinctive standards used as the building blocks. Machine safety is particularly relevant to professionals who are responsible for validating the safety of machines that use either simple lower risk/complexity systems or complex systems such as PLCs for safety duties.
New standards like the ones mentioned above are continually being developed, placing unfamiliar requirements on the task of assuring machine safety, especially when more complex equipment such as PLCs is used. With technology changing, effective competency training of individuals who are responsible for specifying, designing or otherwise applying technology to safety applications is increasing in demand. exida said this course will walk the candidate through the machine safety lifecycle, giving them the opportunity to learn about risk, how to reduce risk, how to determine SIL and much more.
Course topics are:
- Safety lifecycle
- SIL verification
- SIL selection
- HAZOP
- Risk analysis
- Consequence analysis
- Likelihood analysis
- LOPA
- SIL determination
- Requirements and details for safety-related control functions
- Safety-related electrical control system
- Architecture constraints
- PFDavg
Candidates can also undertake the FSP Exam (Machine Safety Specialty). The exida Functional Safety Practitioner (FSP) program is a certificate program that provides confirmation that an attendee shows competency by retaining the knowledge presented in the course. The FSP program also provides an analysis of where the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses lie, helping participants judge their competency level if interested in obtaining a certification like the CFSE or CFSP. The exam will be given at the conclusion of the training course, and is optional. The candidate must achieve a minimum of 80% on the exam in order to receive their FSP certificate.
Click here to register.
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