Title: Safety Manager learning path | ISO 26262 Academy
URL: https://iso26262.academy/path/functional-safety-manager
Description: Part 2 and Part 8: planning, confirmation measures, supplier management and the safety case.

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**ISO 26262 Academy** · Learning path · open to read

# Safety Manager

Part 2 and Part 8: planning, confirmation measures, supplier management and the safety case.

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- **3** weeks
- **21** items
- **9.2** hours
- **0** free with an account

Career Path gives you an assessment and a roadmap based on your experience and goals. This track is the fixed schedule for one role.

The schedule

## Week by week.

Guides, practice and checks in the order they build on each other. Open a guide to see what it covers; each item shows every plan that includes it.

1. **Week 1** Functional safety foundations → Planning & managing safety 3h 38m
   - Quiz Calibration: foundations10 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [The Safety Plan](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-plan) 15m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Confirmation measures](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/confirmation-measures) 25m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Simulator Simulator: build a safety case in GSN 50m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: Safety Plan 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: Confirmation Measures 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: safety management10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Development interface agreement](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/development-interface-agreement) 20m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Safety Element out of Context](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/seooc) 20m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
2. **Week 2** Distributed development → Lifecycle beyond development 3h 38m
   - Read [Change impact analysis](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/change-impact-analysis) 50m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: Distributed Development and DIA 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: SEooC Development 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: Configuration and Change Management 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: distributed development10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Production, operation & service](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/production-operation-service) 50m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read Process: Production, Operation, Service and Decommissioning 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
3. **Week 3** Lifecycle beyond development → Agile & compliance 1h 56m
   - Read Process: Safety Case Development 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [ISO 26262 in the standards landscape](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/standards-comparison) 35m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: lifecycle10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Read [Agile development under ISO 26262](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/agile-development-iso26262) 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)
   - Quiz Quiz: audits & compliance10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced)

Templates

### 151 work-product templates come with this path

Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule.

- Functional Safety Concept
- HAZOP Worksheet
- Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Report
- Item Definition
- Motorcycle HARA Verification Report
- Motorcycle Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Motorcycle Item Definition
- Verification Report of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Base Vehicle Manufacturer/Supplier Guideline
- Change Management Plan
- Change Report
- Change Request
- +139 more

Further reading

## Also on this track.

Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider.

[Browse all guides](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts#library)

- Verification and assessment [Functional Safety Assessment & Audit](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/functional-safety-assessment) Learn how to prepare for and execute independent functional safety assessments per ISO 26262-2. Covers evidence package assembly, assessor qualifications, common non-conformities, and corrective action tracking. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 6 chapters
- Software [ISO 26262 and Automotive SPICE](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/aspice-integration) OEMs demand an Automotive SPICE capability level and ISO 26262 compliance in the same statement of work, and new teams treat them as two mountains to climb. This concept shows they are one mountain seen from two sides: a shared V-model, one traceability backbone and a single set of work products. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 12 chapters
- Software [Product Lines and Variant Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/product-line-variant-safety) Keeping ISO 26262 evidence valid across a family of vehicles: variability models a safety argument can trust, family HARA scope, feature interaction screening, Annex C configuration and calibration data, constraints that make unsafe configurations unbuildable, and a modular safety case. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 13 chapters
- Verification and assessment [Proven in Use](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/proven-in-use) ISO 26262-8 Clause 14 lets you trade development evidence for statistically demonstrated field experience. This concept shows when that trade actually closes and, far more often, why it does not. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 11 chapters
- Beyond the standard [Trucks & Buses Adaptation](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/trucks-buses-adaptation) How ISO 26262:2018 extended functional safety to trucks, buses, trailers and semi-trailers. Covers the Part 3 rules (Clause 6.4) for managing variances, multi-stage manufacturing interfaces, heavy-vehicle hazards and worst-case ASIL determination across the affected parts of the standard. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 12 chapters

Start this path

## Week one starts _with a free account._

The free plan opens the first items on every track: one full concept guide, 3 templates, 1 process, the Markov and RBD simulators and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule.

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