Pricing options

Per student fee. Group rates are available.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Getting Started

  • 2

    Module 1 - The Safety Life Cycle

  • 3

    Module 2 - Risk Assessment Review

    • Live Class

    • Start Here

      FREE PREVIEW

    • Setting the Scope

    • Defining the Limits

    • Hazard Identification

    • Estimating Severity

    • Risk Factors - Likelihood and Probability

    • Estimating Likelihood

    • Hazardous Situations and Events

    • Task-Hazard Lists

    • Example Risk Assessment Worksheets

    • Understanding the Hierarchy of Controls

    • Lesson Quality Survey
  • 4

    Module 3 - Linking Risk to Functional Safety

  • 5

    Module 4 - Safety Functions

    • Developing the SRS - Limits

    • Developing the SRS - the Safety Function Description

    • Drafting the SRS for a Safety Function

    • SRS Template

    • Exercise - Starting an SRS

    • SISTEMA Cookbook 6 - Definitions of Safety Functions - What is important?
  • 6

    Module 5 - From Specification to Design - System Architectures

    • SISTEMA Cookbook 4 - When the Architectures Don't Match

Instructor(s)

Doug Nix

Machinery Safety Specialist

Doug is the main instructor for machinery safety and regulatory compliance topics. Specializing in industrial machinery, Doug has more than 35 years of experience in risk assessment, control systems design, functional safety and standards development. Sharing what he has learned over his career has become a passion while providing training to technicians, technologists and engineers. Besides providing consulting services to clients, Doug also writes for the Machinery Safety 101 blog, http://machinerysafety101.com. Doug co-owns Compliance inSight Consulting, and the Machinery Safety 101 blog with his partner and best friend, Kimberly Nix.