Functional Safety

Functional Safety is part of the overall safety of a system or product, including electrical, electronic and programmable electronic parts, which ensures the correct behaviour during the normal operation and under fault conditions.

Nowadays, Functional Safety plays an important role in protecting against the risk of physical injury or health damage and indirect threats to property or the environment, causing possible damage and destruction of valuable assets.

RINA, related to the Functional Safety, offer the following services:

• Independent third-party Assessment of Functional Safety Management, Products, Systems
• Certification of Functional Safety Management, Products, Systems
• Training

Functional Safety Assessment

Thanks to the significant experience acquired in the industrial Product and System sector, RINA is able to assess product/system functional safety and/or following lifecycle steps:

• Hazard Analysis with the identification of the product safety functions and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) target Assessment
• Specific safety requirements
• Functional Safety Management Evaluation
• Safety functions design assessment by means of customer documents review audits and test witnessing to assess the correct application of the appropriate safety techniques during the whole product/system life-cycle.
• Verification that all the safety functions are compliant with the assigned SIL
• Assessment of the production line (Product)
• Assessment of the system installation and configuration (Plant)
• Safety Manual with the verification of the exported safety application condition and environmental constrain
• Proof Test procedure
• Assessment of product/system upgrading and evolutive maintenance

Service OUTPUT: Assessment Report

Functional Safety Certification

RINA can issue the functional safety certification regarding:

• Functional Safety Management System of the Company
• Software-Hardware-Product/System Safety design
• Product including Software and Hardware design and production line management
• System including Software and Hardware design, configuration and installation

Service OUTPUT: Assessment Report and Certificate of Conformity. After obtaining the certificate, RINA allows the Company to applicate its Functional Safety mark on the product.

Functional Safety Training

RINA provides different types of specific training courses on Functional Safety:

• Personnel Qualification courses both in-house or not
• On-site training activities on industrial plants
• Application on order

Service OUTPUT: RINA will issue a Certificate of Competence after passing the competence certification  exam.

Why RINA?

RINA is EN 17065 and EN 17020 ACCREDIA Accredited Body related to IEC EN 61508, IEC EN 61511, IEC EN 62061, IEC EN 13849 and IEC EN 16590 standards.