This webinar highlights the importance and need for performing functional safety assessments and the problems that can arise if these are not performed correctly. The IEC61511 standards identifies 5 stages where Functional Safety Assessments are recommended and/or required. The wording in the standard is somewhat confusing and this webinar helps shed light on which ones should be performed. The primary purpose of a functional safety assessment is to act as an independent means of cross-checking safety to ensure that all the requirements in the SRS have been met. It is also a primary means of ensuring that systematic errors have not been introduced over the course of the lifecycle.
exida Recorded Webinars
Why Bother With Functional Safety Assessments?
Recording Date: December 2019
About the Presenter:
Dr. Steve Gandy, CFSP
Dr. Steve Gandy has been with exida for 13 years as VP of Global Business Development. Dr Gandy has 40+ years of experience in industrial automation controls and safety. Dr. Gandy is head of exida Engineering and is a director of several of exida’s subsidiary companies. In addition to his sales and management responsibilities, Dr. Gandy has written the "Functional Safety For Managers: What Managers Need to Know" book, as well as "Managing In An Automation Company", and published and presented numerous papers at conferences. Dr. Gandy is also one of the primary instructors for exida’s highly successful FSE100 Functional Safety course.