Find out how to figure out system safety issues by using various prescribed methods for the purpose.
This course will give you an overview and a classification of methods used to assess the safety of a system. Most common safety analysis methods are laid out and their workflows are described in detail. The course has a high practical dimension, with numerous examples including group work for course participants, which will conduct each method over a practical technical system of choice. The practical exercises would focus on the automotive domain, with analysis tackling specifics of hardware and software components in a system safety decomposition.
Course topics:
Introduction to safety analysis methods, system model analysis
Preliminary Hazard List (PHL), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis variants (FMEA/FMEDA/FMECA/Fu-FMEA), Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA)
New analysis in the context of ISO 21448 SOTIF, such as System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
Key quantification (such as Safe Failure Fraction and Diagnostic Coverage)
Hazard identifications, minimal cut sets, assessment of dependent failures and potential weaknesses
Identification and analysis of common cause failures, Identification, and analysis of cascading failure, Assessment of their risk of violating a safety goal
Mitigation: definition of safety measures
Modules:
Lecture: This lecture will cover a general definition of safety analysis methods, their categorization, and an overview of their limitations.
Exercise: Creating a list of requirements for your system.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Lecture: This lecture will include a quick recap of the system, a guide to model build-up, and examples.
Exercise: Analyzing your ECU and building a system view.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Lecture: This lecture will focus on conducting a Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) and Functional Failure Analysis (FFA), with an emphasis on hazard and operability study.
Exercise: Applying eFFA, investigating root causes and effects, identifying consequences, defining operation modes, and analyzing permutations.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Project: Participants are required to apply the concepts from exercises in their group assignments.
Effort to complete: 8 hours
Lecture: This lecture will cover the basics of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), its various types, moderation techniques, and discuss its advantages, disadvantages, and hints.
Exercise: Conducting an FMECA analysis, evaluating failure modes, detection possibilities, RPN, and countermeasures.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Lecture: This lecture will introduce the basics of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), hazard identification, minimal cut sets, systematic fault tree construction, and special applications such as success trees and tolerability calculations.
Exercise: Creating a common hazard list from eFFA and FMECA, and analyzing the hazards using FTA.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Project: Participants are required to apply the concepts from exercises in their group assignments.
Effort to complete: 8 hours
Lecture: This lecture will provide an introduction to hazard analysis, focusing on the Preliminary Hazard List (PHL) and Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA).
Exercise: Developing a rough concept and PHL (Preliminary Hazard List) for your system and preparing a separate PHA (Preliminary Hazard Analysis).
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Lecture: This lecture will delve into System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), covering Systems Theory, the STAMP model, defining purpose, identifying system-level hazards and constraints, modeling the control structure, identifying Unsafe Control Actions (UCA), defining controller constraints, and identifying loss scenarios that lead to Unsafe Control Actions, Identifying scenarios in which control actions are improperly executed or not executed.
Exercise: Applying STPA hazard analysis to your SCS.
Effort to complete: 2 hours 30 minutes
Project: Participants are required to apply the concepts from exercises in their group assignments.
Effort to complete: 8 hours
Lecture: This lecture will focus on Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA), including the assessment of dependent failures in integrated circuits, identification and analysis of common cause and cascading failures, evaluation of their risk in violating safety goals, and the definition of mitigation safety measures.
Effort to complete: 2 hours
Effort to complete: 1 hour 30 minutes
Requirements
Hardware: Computer with Internet connection, working speakers and microphone. Software: Chrome browser. Prior knowledge: Students should have basic engineering knowledge in either one of the following disciplines: electrical engineering, computer engineering, or mechanical engineering.
Course Features
Course IDNIT-FSBA-02
Live classes30
Self-paced classes30
SkillAdvanced
€1050
Enrollment closing date: 16.06.2025.
Class type: Live online (english)
Instructor: Vladimir Marinković, Ph.D. (UCSD, FTN)
How to enroll
To enroll, click the Enroll now button to enroll as an individual, or use the contact form to send us an inquiry for custom groups and B2B deals. One of our staff will reach out to confirm the enrollment and give you the payment instructions. Few days prior to the course start date, you will get an intro e-mail and access to the NIT Academy learning platform (Canvas).
Course format
Once in Canvas, you will be able to review course modules and teaching concept. Each live online course will have a number of teaching modules. Each teaching module has the preparatory material (e.g. digest video lesson, reading materials, quizzes) which you can go through in a self-paced fashion. Live sessions are scheduled in the Canvas calendar, and you need to attend them. In live sessions, instructors will mentor and guide you through hands-on examples and exercises so that you can master the module content more easily. After a bundle of modules, you would be given a group project. Together with your peers you will work out a problem, apply the knowledge and deepen your expertise. The course is closed with the formal exam which is required to be granted a completion certificate.
Instructor
This course is instructed and mentored by our expert instructor, Vladimir Marinković.
How much time it will take
The course can be completed usually within one month. Live sessions schedule will pace the course (see the orientation schedule below) and you are due to finish self-paced parts (assignments, projects) with respect to the given deadlines. You will spend 30 classes in live sessions and additional 30 classes of self-paced work. You are looking to spend about 45 hours of your time on the course.
Payment
Payment of 1050 EUR is needed to finally confirm your enrollment for the course Safety Analysis Techniques scheduled for the period 23.06.2025. - 15.07.2025. You can self-generate the payment using the button below.
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