This EN 50716 training covers the current European standard for software for railway control and protection systems, which supersedes EN 50128, and how to apply it.
Safety Standards
2 days (14h)
EN 50716 (Railway)
A detailed view of the railway software standard EN 50716 and its links with EN 50126 and EN 50129.
Course Description
Pedagogical Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the general principles and plans of EN 50716 and its associated standards.
- Acquire the mindsets and methods for taking a system’s and software’s dependability activities into account.
- Apply the principles for determining the target functional-safety level.
- Gain a complete view of the provisions applicable to software aspects.
- Apply the approach to validating the achieved functional-safety level.
Course Program
- Introduction to the dependability approach; normative context (railway-sector standards).
- EN 50126 (system) in detail: general principles; safety life cycle; organization; risk approach; SIL determination; safety assessment required by EN 50126.
- EN 50716 in detail: general principles; safety life cycle; SIL determination; organization; requirements management.
- Software construction; software verification and validation.
- Reuse and tools: previously developed software; COTS software components; development-tool qualification.
- Dependability and reuse.
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