These functional safety standards deliver benefits to developers, system integrators and users. By following a standard, a development organization builds safer products. A system integrator can state its expectations to a supplier by requiring compliance with a standard. And users have fewer injuries and deaths. This section provides a list of functional safety standards.
IEC 61508 – Functional Safety of Electrical/Electronic/ and Programmable Electronic
IEC 61508 is the foundational source for good software methods, techniques and tools to support functional safety.
ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems – Requirements
ISO 9001:2015 includes requirements for leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and continual improvement.
IEC 62061 – Safety of Machinery: Functional Safety of Electrical, Electronic and Programmable Electronic Control Systems
IEC/EN 62061 defines requirements for system-level design of safety-related electrical control systems in machinery and design of non-complex subsystems and devices.
ISO 26262-6:2018 – Road Vehicles – Functional Safety – Part 6: Product Development at the Software Level
Part 6 covers software and provides lists of recommended and highly recommended techniques for each automotive safety integrity level (ASIL). Only events deemed to be ASIL A, B, C or D need to comply with ISO 26262 .
IEC 62304 – Medical Device Software – Life Cycle Processes
IEC 62304 includes requirements for the software development process, software maintenance process, software configuration management process and software problem resolution process.
EN 50128 & 50129 – Railway Applications – Communication, Signaling and Processing Systems
These two European standards (EN 5012x) define safety-related software process standards, hardware and approval processes for railway applications. EN 50128 provides process standards for software for railway control and protection systems. EN 50129 covers safety-related electronic systems for signaling.
ISO 25119 – Agricultural and Forestry Tractors and Machinery – Safety-Related Parts of Control Systems
This safety standard for agriculture and forestry equipment covers general principles for design and development, concept phase, series development for hardware and software, and processes for production, operation, modification and support.
IEC 61513 – Instrumentation and Control Systems Important to Safety in Nuclear Power Plants
IEC 61513 defines general requirements for systems important to safety in the nuclear power industry.
ISO/SAE 21434 (coming soon) – Road Vehicles – Cybersecurity Engineering
BlackBerry QNX is participating in the development of this automotive cybersecurity standard, which is expected to be released in 2020. ISO/SAE 21434 is bringing the auto industry together with the goal of developing reasonably secure vehicles and systems.