Duration
19.5 hours (three days per the outline)
Access
Public enrolment · Private / corporate
Delivery
Face-to-face · Live online
Sessions and enrolment
Check the provider's website for upcoming sessions and enrolment information.
Price
Price not published. Check with the provider.
Languages
English · Chinese
Course facilitators may include
Steve Beland, Damien Glynn, Lirong Tian, Johnson Wang

About this course

Introduces the revised SAE standard ARP4761A and how it applies the guidelines of ARP4754B: identifying potential hazards and their failure conditions, determining safety objectives, and assessing aircraft and system architectures against them, with early development of safety requirements. Methods covered include aircraft and system functional hazard assessment, preliminary aircraft and system safety assessment, numerical probability analysis (fault tree, dependence diagram, Markov and model-based safety analysis), particular risk analysis, development assurance level assignment, common mode analysis, FMEA and FMES, cascading effects analysis, zonal safety analysis, and system and aircraft safety assessment. The course includes hands-on group activities and an exam.

Course facilitators may include

  • Steve Beland
  • Damien Glynn
  • Lirong Tian
  • Johnson Wang

Facilitator details as listed by the provider. Assignments may vary by scheduled course.

Who should attend

  • Systems engineers and other key personnel in civil aircraft and system design and development, including safety, certification and program management roles

Prerequisites

  • Recommended: C2301 (ARP4754B) or a background in structured development assurance methods from another domain

Learning outcomes

  • Identify failure conditions and safety objectives using a functional hazard assessment.
  • Evaluate proposed aircraft and system architectures against safety objectives.
  • Analyze common safety methods in the context of a safety process.
  • Apply the safety assessment process to a project and recognize when objectives are satisfied.

Course outline

  1. 01

    Day 1

    Safety assessment process and interaction with development · Aircraft functional hazard assessment (AFHA) · Preliminary aircraft safety assessment (PASA) · Numerical probability analysis (FTA, DD, MA, MBSA)

  2. 02

    Day 2

    Particular risk analysis (PRA) · System functional hazard assessment (SFHA) · Preliminary system safety assessment (PSSA) · Development assurance level assignment (FDAL and IDAL) · Common mode analysis (CMA)

  3. 03

    Day 3

    FMEA and FMES · Cascading effects analysis (CEA) · Zonal safety analysis (ZSA) · System safety assessment (SSA) · Aircraft safety assessment (ASA)

Assessment and evaluation

Includes an exam (as stated by SAE).

Training areas