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UAS Safety Engineer: Functional Safety, Safety Analysis and Safe System Development
Role and responsibilities of the UAS Safety Engineer throughout the safety lifecycle · Distinguishing functional safety, operational safety and cybersecurity · Hazards, failure conditions and safety objectives, including FHA, FMEA and fault tree analysis
Overview
Course contents
Our professional training courses are designed for professionals, specialists, and experts who wish to expand their knowledge in a targeted way.
Contents
- Role and responsibilities of the UAS Safety Engineer throughout the safety lifecycle
- Distinguishing functional safety, operational safety and cybersecurity
- Hazards, failure conditions and safety objectives, including FHA, FMEA and fault tree analysis
- Redundancy, fault detection, common-cause failures and safe system states
- Deriving, implementing and tracing technical safety requirements
- Understanding aviation development assurance: ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-178C and DO-254
- Distinguishing aviation approaches from IEC 61508 concepts; no blanket application to every UAS project
- Role-based case study: develop a safety analysis, mitigation measures and a compliance demonstration plan for a UAS function
Learning objectives
- Structure safety activities and responsibilities in a UAS project
- Analyse hazards and failure conditions using suitable methods
- Translate safety objectives into technical requirements and architectural measures
- Plan project-specific development assurance and safety evidence
- Document and justify the results of a safety analysis
Target audience
- Safety and systems engineers working with UAS
- Hardware and software developers of safety-related functions
- Professionals preparing to take on the role of UAS Safety Engineer
Prerequisites
- Required: experience in technical systems, hardware or software development.
- Prior attendance at IC-813-E-04 or evidence of equivalent knowledge of UAS systems engineering.
- Recommended: fundamentals of risk assessment and safety-related development processes.
Certification requirement
- Certification option following a separate examination.
- Evidence of attendance at the course and/or prerequisite courses, or evidence of equivalent knowledge acquired elsewhere.
- Successful completion of the certification examination.
- At least 1.5 years of professional experience in the relevant field.
- Fulfilment of the role-specific competency requirements in accordance with the certification scheme.
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