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Safety Analyst

HARA, FMEA, FTA, FMEDA and STPA: the full analysis toolbox, hands-on.

  • 5 weeks
  • 22 items
  • 15.1 hours
  • 1 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. Items marked Free account open on the free plan.

  1. Week 1Functional safety foundations → The analysis toolbox3h 50m
    • QuizCalibration: foundations12 questions20mPro
    • ReadSafety analyses compared30mExpert
    • ReadProcess: Safety Analyses25mPro
    • ReadSTPA25mPro
    • SimulatorSimulator: run an STPA45mExpert
    • ReadProcess: HARA25mPro
    • SimulatorSimulator: run a HAZOP45mExpert
    • QuizQuiz: analysis selection8 questions15mPro
  2. Week 2FMEA in depth → FTA in depth3h 33m
    • ReadFMEA15mExpert
    • SimulatorSimulator: build an FMEA45mPro
    • QuizQuiz: FMEA10 questions18mPro
    • ReadFTA fundamentals (chapters 1-8)Chapters 1-8: fundamentals, gates, construction, cut sets, ISO 26262.2h 15mExpert
  3. Week 3FTA in depth3h 20m
    • ReadFTA quantitative & practice (chapters 9-16)Chapters 9-16: quantitative analysis, pitfalls, tools, worked example.2h 10mExpert
    • SimulatorSimulator: build a fault tree50mPro
    • QuizQuiz: FTA12 questions20mPro
  4. Week 4Hardware-oriented analyses3h 20m
    • SimulatorSimulator: run an FMEDA1hExpert
    • ReadDependent failure analysis45mExpert
    • SimulatorSimulator: run a DFA45mExpert
    • SimulatorSimulator: cascading failures40mExpert
    • ReadMarkov chains10mExpert
  5. Week 5Hardware-oriented analyses1h 5m
    • SimulatorSimulator: Markov analysis45mFree account
    • QuizQuiz: quantitative analyses12 questions20mPro

Templates

69 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
  • Common-Cause and Cascading Failure Analysis
  • Dependent Failures Analysis
  • Dependent Failures Analysis Verification Report
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Report
  • +57 more

Further reading

Also on this track

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

  • Power & Clock Supervision · Expert
  • Proven in Use · Expert
  • Safety Design Decisions Across Vehicle Domains · Expert
  • Soft Errors & Transient Faults · Expert
  • Trucks & Buses Adaptation · Expert

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 simulator and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule.