Safety Critical and Safety Related Systems

This is the Home Page for IET policy on Safety Critical and Safety Related Systems.  Please follow the links below for more information.

IET Safety Critical Work

• Competency Guidelines for Safety Critical Systems Practioners
• Guidelines on EMC & Functional Safety
• Potential problem dates for Computers
• Publications
• Comments on the Maintenance of IEC61505
• Sources of Safety Critical Systems
• The Revision of Defence Standard 00-56

IET Safety Critical Groups, Committees and Affiliations

• IET actively supports the Safety Critical Systems Club
• Associate member of CASS (Conformity Assessment of Safety-Related Systems
• Joint working Group on Independent Safety Assurance (ISA)
• Safety Critical Systems Policy Advisory Group
• The IET/BCS Competency Liaison Group maintains the Competency Guidelines
• IET Functional Safety Technical and Professional Network (TPN)

The IET's Safety Critical Systems Policy Advisory Group co-operates closely with the BCS Safety Critical Systems Expert Panel and with the UK Government's Health and Safety Executive and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).  This joint committee considers important SCS issues and issues policy statements.

If you like to know more about the IET's SCS work or any of the above groups then please contact:

policy@theiet.org