Functional Safety Training and Certification for Rail Industry

This training on “Functional Safety in the Rail Industry” is a one-day introduction to the individual CENELEC standards, designed to provide a general overview and outline the main planning activities in safety-related rail development. EN 50126 focuses on aspects of RAMS, influencing factors and risk assessment

Course coverage

• Introduction to System Safety, General principles and requirements of risk management
• Need for Safety and Reliability in the Railway Domain and Need for the safety standards
• Definitions and abbreviations of the commonly used terminologies in the standard - Examples for the definitions in the Railway Domain
• Railway RAMS - Quality of Service Railway RAMS
• Risk Analysis - Risk evaluation in terms of Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
• Risk Evaluation / Acceptance, Fail Safe Concept
• Elements of Railway RAMS, Interrelationship between Railway RAMS Elements
• Technical Concept of Reliability and Safety
• Failure effects within the System, Cause and Effect Diagrams in Failure analysis (Example in Railway domain)
• Influencing factors of RAMS - Categories - Management of factors
• RAMS Life-cycle various phases, details in terms of input requirements, tasks to be carried out and the expected output for each life cycle phase

• Scope of EN 50128 as applied to Software (SW)
• Software Safety Route Map- Relationship between generic system development and Application development
• Definitions as applicable to SW safety
• Assigning SW Safety Integrity Level (SIL) using general process described in EN 50126
• Competence and Responsibilities of personnel carrying out SW Safety activities.
• Level of independence v/s SIL for SW Design / Implementation SW verification / validation
• SW Requirement Specification – Required properties
• SW Architecture Techniques / Methods v/s SIL
• SW design and Implementation - Techniques / Methods v/s SIL
• Techniques used in building Safety critical SW (As given in Annex B of the standard)
• Certification requirement of Tools used in SW development / Testing
• SW verification / Testing Techniques /Methods Vs SIL
• SW / HW Integration
• SW Validation Techniques / Methods v/s SIL
• SW Assessment - SW assessment Report
• SW Quality Assurance
• SW Maintenance
• Systems Configured by Application Data

This traning focuses on  “System and Hardware Assessment” provides an introduction to the requirements of safety-related hardware development.

Details on RAMS analysis such as Reliability Block Diagram, Functional Block Diagram, Reliability Apportionment, Prediction, FMEA, FTA, Availability and Maintainability analysis with examples

• Safety Acceptance and Approval Process
• Evidence of Quality Management, Safety management, Functional and Technical Safety
• Safety life-cycle
• Safety Management - Review, verification / validation process, level of independence in review, verification / validation and assessment process
• Safety Plan, Hazard and Risk analysis with SIL determination
• Safety Design
• Evidence of Functional and Technical Safety
• Safety Acceptance and Approval process
• Dependencies between Safety Assessment and Safety Approval Process

Duration: 2 Days

• Introduction
• Scope
• Functional Steps in the application of EN  50657
• Identification of Safety related SW in the system and the SIL
• Software management and organization
• V-Model
• Software Assurance & assessment
• Software Development
• Development of Software configured by application data
• Software deployment and maintenance

Duration: 1 day

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Participants will learn through role plays, case studies, group exercises, scenarios and discussions.

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Yes, you will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the Functional Safety Certification in the Rail industry based on EN 5012x course.

The Functional Safety Certification in the Rail industry based on EN 5012x course content and structure are designed by the domain experts from TÜV SÜD. With immense experience and knowledge in the relevant standards, our team of product specialists and technical experts at TÜV SÜD, developed the Functional Safety Certification in the Rail industry based on EN 5012x course content based on current business landscape and market requirements. The experts also undergo relevant upskilling programmes, benefitting from TÜV SÜD’s 150 years of expertise and global heritage.

The concept of Functional Safety is most fundamental for safety related systems to ensure least number of accidents or hazards in the rail industry. The control system functions as per the safety-related system and triggers to mitigate risks and avoid failures in the railway functioning system. Companies related to the rail sector require professionals having in-depth knowledge to deal with Functional Safety requirements to reduce potential risks and safe environment in the industry.

Functional Safety Training in the Rail Industry is required to prevent dangerous failures or to control them when they arise. It is required to have the technical know-how to design and run safety-related systems so that the control systems work efficiently to avoid failures and mitigate risks. Overall it is beneficial as it would save material and life on one hand and the company can gain a competitive edge by having trained professionals in Functional Safety, on the other.

As per existing EN 5012X standard for safety-relevant electrical / electronic systems in Rail Industry, Functional Safety Standards for the Rail Industry in India are EN 50126, EN  50129 and EN  50128. TÜV SÜD is a global leader in providing Functional Safety training for the Rail Industry in India and South Asia.