TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Technician training

Course content

Day 1

Introduction to the Machinery Directive

• Conformity assessment procedure
• Application of EN ISO 13849-1
• Implementation of the requirements with the support of Sistema
• Technical protective measures (EN ISO 13855, EN ISO 13857)
• Practical implementation of the technical measures for functional safety in the
• safety life cycle for machinery

Day 2

Phase 0: Risk assessment of the machine

• Determination of the acceptable residual risk
• Determining the machine limits
• Identifying hazards
• Assessing and evaluating the risks
• Definition of suitable risk parameters
• Risk reduction through suitable measures (constructive, technical, indicative)
• Determining the required safety integrity (SIL/PL)
• Documentation of the results

Day 3

Phase 1: Safety planning

• Creating the project description
• Strategy for achieving functional safety
• Defining measures
• Planning the safety-relevant documentation
• Planning activities and resources
• Planning verification and validation

Day 4

Phase 4: Realisation

• Installation of the planned security hardware
• Parameterisation of the safe devices
• Programming the safety-related application software in
• accordance with the software specifications

Phase 6: Code simulation

• Creation / inspection of a test specification for code simulation
• Code simulation of the safety functions

Phase 7: Validation

• Functional testing of the safety functions
• Summarising all results of the inspections and tests in the verification and validation report
• Configuration management: Checking all documents and project files and summarising them in the
• configuration management plan

Day 5

• Summary of the topics
• Answering questions from participants
• Examination

FS Technician (machinery)-Certificate

• The certificate will be issued by TÜV Rheinland
  Phoenix Contact is recognised course provider

• The "FS Technician (TÜV Rheinland)" certificate confirms that:
  -the holder has participated continuously in a training referring to a specified topic
  -the exam of this training has been passed
  -special knowledge in the according application area has been achieved
  -the participant has obtained the title "FS Technician (TÜV Rheinland)" in the according application area of the training.

FS Technician (machinery)- Prerequisites

Participants of the FS Technician trainings shall fulfil the following requirements

• proof of further technical education or vocational technical training or reference letter of employer confirming equivalent experiences and responsibilities
• 2 years of work experience in the acc. application area (for example machinery or in safety instrumented systems)
• Persons who do not have the according business experience may participate in the training as well as the exam
• If they pass the exam successfully the FS Technician (TÜV Rheinland) certificate will be issued to them as soon as the necessary 2 years of business experience are achieved.

FS Technician (machinery) - Validity

The FS Technician (TÜV Rheinland) certificate is valid for 5 years

The validity of the FS Technician (TÜV Rheinland) certificate can be extended after 5 years. Holders of this certificate will be contacted by ]TÜV Rheinland by email and will have to forward the following documents to TÜV Rheinland:

• An official letter from their employer in which their current and continuous work in the specified area of certification (SIS) is described and/or confirmed.
• a form sheet filled in with all necessary information describing projects which have been carried out during the last 5 years of their professional life describing the gathered experience in functional safety of the past year.