Course description
Foundations of System Safety Engineering (FSSE)
This course aims to introduce you to the principles of system safety, including risk, basic terminology, and the main types of hazard and safety assessment techniques.
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Upcoming start dates
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for:
- Practitioners across all domains including aerospace, military, railway, automotive, civil nuclear, civil maritime, medical devices and healthcare;
- Developers of equipment safety cases during design for software, hardware, procedures, systems and/or platforms;
- Developers of safety cases for operational safety and disposal;
- Reviewers of safety cases within an organisation or as an independent activity;
- Developers and reviewers of changes to existing safety-critical / safety-related equipment and operations;
- Project managers where development of a safety case is a significant element of projects they manage;
- Regulators of safety critical domains.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of system safety terminology and lifecycle via prior learning or industrial experience.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand risk, and the factors influencing perception and acceptability of risk;
- Be able to give definitions of safety-related terminology, and discuss how the use of terminology varies between countries and industrial sectors;
- Have an understanding of typical safety-critical systems lifecycles, and the roles of the major groups of techniques within the lifecycle.
Course delivery details
During the teaching week there will be a combination of lecture materials and case studies to explore. The case studies give you the chance to work through an example to reinforce your learning from the lectures.
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