The Safety Critical Systems Handbook

A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety
6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-443-58754-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

The Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety, 6th edition is a practical, fully updated guide to achieving safer technology in systems that protect workers and the public against injury and death, while also addressing environmental risk. Building on IEC 61508 and related guidance, this sixth edition incorporates the latest 2026 updates, including clarified scope for artificial intelligence (software technology class), expanded coverage of human factors and security, and strengthened requirements for competence and levels of independence in functional safety assurance. It introduces enhanced technical expectations including relocated semiconductor content, new requirements for diagnostic functions and common cause failures, and expanded guidance on software off-line support tools. For systems engineering, it incorporates and extends IEC TS 61508:2016 to support Systematic Capability SC3 and SC4, clarifies the difference between SIL (required) and SC (achieved), and strengthens software lifecycle management, traceability, and regression testing, including new guidance for data-driven systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, David J.

Simpson, Kenneth G. L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Betriebsverfassung, Personalvertretung, Mitbestimmungsrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part A. The Concept of Safety Integrity

1. The Meaning and Context of Safety Integrity Targets
2. Meeting IEC 61508
Part 1

3. Meeting IEC 61508
Part 2

4. Meeting IEC 61508
Part 3

5. Reliability Modeling Techniques
6. Failure Rate and Mode Data
7. Demonstrating and Certifying Conformance

Part B. Specific Industry Sectors

8. Second Tier Documents—Process, Oil and Gas Industries
9. Machinery Sector
10. Other Industry Sectors

Part C. Case Studies in the Form of Exercises and Examples

11. Pressure Control System (Exercise)
12. Burner Control Assessment (Example)
13. SIL Targeting—Some Practical Examples
14. Hypothetical Rail Train Braking System (Example)
15. Rotorcraft Accidents and Risk Assessment
16. Hydroelectric Dam and Tidal Gates
17. Cyber Security

Appendices

1. Functional Safety Management
2. Assessment Schedule
3. BETAPLUS CCF Model, Scoring Criteria
4. Assessing Safe Failure Fraction and Diagnostic Coverage
5. Answers to Examples
6. References
7. Quality and Safety Plan
8. Some Terms and Jargon of IEC 61508
9. Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH)

Über Autor(innen)

Simpson, Kenneth G. L.
Kenneth G. L. Simpson is Managing Director of Engineering Safety Consultants Ltd and has been associated with safety related systems design and also with their assessment for over 40 years. He is a member of both the IEC61508 and IEC61511 drafting committees and the IGEM (SR15) panel, which writes the gas industry guidance. Following a career in aerospace, Ken has spent over 35 years in the control and safety system industry, has written a number of papers on the topic and gives frequent lectures.

Smith, David J.
Dr. David J. Smith is the Proprietor of Technis Consultancy. He has written numerous books on Reliability and Safety over the last 40 years. His FARADIP database has become widely used, and his other software packages are also used throughout the profession. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction and common cause failure. He contributed to the first drafting of IEC 61508 and chairs the IGEM panel which produces SR/15 (the gas industry safety related guidance). David is past President of the Safety and Reliability Society.