System Safety

Aim

The course intends to develop the student's knowledge of and ability to handle the 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 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 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.
• Obtain experience of working in a group with product and system safety work

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.
• 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 work will be carried out during the course. Partly, one that is aimed at the use of legal requirements, directives and standards, and partly one where it is possible to apply the methodology. The projects are reported with a written report or report. oral presentation. The project reports are compiled and distributed among the course participants in order to be used as guidelines in future work.