System Safety

Aim

The course intends to develop the student's knowledge of and ability to handle product/system safety during a product development project. Particular emphasis is placed on the student understanding and using methods and tools for identifying, analyzing and assessing risks in a system. Weight is also given to the fact that the student should be able to document and communicate the results as well as the process itself. More specifically, the student should be able to:

• Plan, implement and follow up the work in the product and system safety process.
• Know, choose from and be able to apply different types of methods / tools.
• Know and be able to apply safety-related directives, legal requirements and standards.
• Turn conclusions from the analysis of risks into concrete and relevant action proposals.

Content

The course deals with the product and system safety process and the various activities that are linked to it.

• Identification, analysis and assessment of risks in a system.
• Handling risk management measures.
• Classification of critical systems / subsystem systems and what this means in product development work.
• Management of product and system safety requirements and directives, laws and standards.
• Different methods and tools used in the product/system safety work.

Two different minor project works will be carried out during the course; one that aims at the use of legal requirements, directives and standards, and one that aims at applying the methodology covered by the course. The projects are reported with a written report and an oral presentation respectively. The project reports are compiled and distributed among the course participants in order to be used as guidelines in future work.