
Code of Practice: Competence for Safety Related Systems Practitioners
Institution of Engineering and Technology (Publisher)
Published on 12. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-78561-111-7 (ISBN)
Description
This Code of Practice is designed to help companies assess and maintain the competence of their engineering staff particularly in safety critical areas and industries. It sets out the competencies expected and evidence required to prove competence in specific tasks and helps organisations create schemes for monitoring and measuring the competencies of its employees. Human error is still recognised as the most frequent cause of problems and the field of safety critical systems and functional safety continues to develop along with the complexity of systems.
The purpose of the Code of Practice is:
To help organisations with creating or developing a scheme for assessing the competence of people and teams undertaking safety critical functions
To demonstrate to clients that an organisation has the necessary competence to undertake particular activities and that a recognised competence measurement scheme has been used
To provide clear levels of expertise and competence required prior to recruiting engineers in safety critical roles. And subsequently for appraising / training those personnel
To help in implementing an overall competence management system (CMS) for an engineering division or organisation
To comply with regulatory requirements/relevant standards, showing duty of care and compliance to regulations and EU directives (specifically IEC 61508 and HSE requirements)
To provide evidence of best practice and high levels of competence to any industry regulator and to avoid potential litigation
The purpose of the Code of Practice is:
To help organisations with creating or developing a scheme for assessing the competence of people and teams undertaking safety critical functions
To demonstrate to clients that an organisation has the necessary competence to undertake particular activities and that a recognised competence measurement scheme has been used
To provide clear levels of expertise and competence required prior to recruiting engineers in safety critical roles. And subsequently for appraising / training those personnel
To help in implementing an overall competence management system (CMS) for an engineering division or organisation
To comply with regulatory requirements/relevant standards, showing duty of care and compliance to regulations and EU directives (specifically IEC 61508 and HSE requirements)
To provide evidence of best practice and high levels of competence to any industry regulator and to avoid potential litigation
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stevenage
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78561-111-7 (9781785611117)
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Content
Part 1: Understanding Competence
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Competence and Criteria
Part 2: Specifying and assessing criteria
Section 3: Step 1: define competence activities and criteria
Section 4: Step 2: specify activity competence
Section 5: Step 3: assess personal competence
Section 6: Step 4: compare personal and activity competence profiles
Section 7: Applying the guidelines: a worked example
Annex A Example Competence Assessment Form
Annex B Example safety activities and IEC 61508
Annex C Example safety activities summary
Annex D Example safety competence criteria
Annex E References
Annex F Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations
Annex G History and Acknowledgements
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Competence and Criteria
Part 2: Specifying and assessing criteria
Section 3: Step 1: define competence activities and criteria
Section 4: Step 2: specify activity competence
Section 5: Step 3: assess personal competence
Section 6: Step 4: compare personal and activity competence profiles
Section 7: Applying the guidelines: a worked example
Annex A Example Competence Assessment Form
Annex B Example safety activities and IEC 61508
Annex C Example safety activities summary
Annex D Example safety competence criteria
Annex E References
Annex F Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations
Annex G History and Acknowledgements