ISO 26262 Academy · Learning path · open to read
Safety Analyst
HARA, FMEA, FTA, FMEDA and STPA: the full analysis toolbox, hands-on.
- 5 weeks
- 23 items
- 16 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. Open a guide to see what it covers; each item shows every plan that includes it.
- Week 1Functional safety foundations → The analysis toolbox3h 50m
- QuizCalibration: foundations12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety analyses compared30mExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: Safety Analyses25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSTPA25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: run an STPA45mExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: HARA25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: run a HAZOP45mExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: analysis selection8 questions15mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- Week 2FMEA in depth → FTA in depth3h 33m
- ReadFMEA15mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: build an FMEA45mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: FMEA10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadFTA fundamentals (chapters 1-8)Chapters 1-8: fundamentals, gates, construction, cut sets, ISO 26262.2h 15mExpert plan pricing
- Week 3FTA in depth3h 20m
- ReadFTA quantitative & practice (chapters 9-16)Chapters 9-16: quantitative analysis, pitfalls, tools, worked example.2h 10mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: build a fault tree50mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: FTA12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- Week 4Hardware-oriented analyses4h
- ReadFMEDA50mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: run an FMEDA1hExpert plan pricing
- ReadDependent failure analysis45mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: run a DFA45mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: cascading failures40mExpert plan pricing
- Week 5Hardware-oriented analyses1h 15m
- ReadMarkov chains10mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: Markov analysis45mFree plan pricingPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: quantitative analyses12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
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.
Further reading
Also on this track.
Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider.
- System levelPower & Clock SupervisionThe two assumptions every other safety mechanism silently depends on: valid supply rails and a trustworthy time base. Power trees, safety PMICs, voltage monitors, sequencing, reset escalation, watchdogs, clock monitors, the independence argument, timing and energy budgets, latent-fault self-test, and the FMEDA rows they all feed.
- Verification and assessmentProven in UseISO 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.
- Concept phaseSafety Design Decisions Across Vehicle DomainsNine automotive domains walk the exact same ISO 26262 Part 3-6 chain (item definition, HARA, FSC, TSC, HSI, hardware and software), yet arrive at radically different technical answers. See why a traction inverter, a brake ECU and a cockpit display controller end up nothing alike.
- HardwareSoft Errors & Transient FaultsA cosmic ray hits a memory cell and your ASIL D function computes with a wrong value. This concept walks from the physics of radiation-induced bit flips through single event effects, ECC and hardened design, all the way to Part 11 quantification.
- Beyond the standardTrucks & Buses AdaptationHow 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.
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.