Safety standards requirements
KASES will help you to meet the most important requirements from relevant safety standards (for example ISO 26262).
New standards for Automotive functional safety have the following requirements for the engineering process for safety critical systems:
- Good overall process maturity, in particular for software activities.
- Safety manager shall be assigned, responsible for functional safety.
- Safety plans shall be used for development of safety critical systems.
- Hazard analysis and risk assessment methods shall be used.
- Safety goals and safety requirements shall be defined.
- Functional safety concepts shall be described:
- Systematic decomposition of safety functionalities.
- Defined reactions in defined reaction times in case of failures.
- Technical safety concepts shall be described.
- Traceability among all artefacts in the safety analysis shall be organized:
- All artefacts are given ID’s (requirement ID, design object ID,..).
- Then cross references are made via the ID’s.
- Provide evidence of functional safety in case of re-use of existing items, when field data is available.
- Requirements to the customer-supplier relationship:
- How to select your suppliers.
- What to include in the Request For Quotation.
- What to agree with your suppliers.
- How to work during the distributed development by OEM+suppliers.
- How to assess your suppliers.
- Safety management shall be organized for after-sales services.
- Quality standards like ISO/TS 16949, or ISO 9001 shall be applied.
- A safety case shall be compiled for each safety critical project.
This is just an example of important requirements from new safety standards, for example ISO-26262. If your company is developing safety critical electronic products for road vehicles and most activities, methods and work products as described above are missing, your engineering process is not "state-of-the-art" and you will not be covered for possible future liability claims.