Bastion Technologies offers two safety engineering and management courses that are taught by a system safety subject matter expert and a Fellow Member of the International System Safety Society. Each course is 5 days in duration and is approved and sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center. Each course attendee will receive a certificate of completion and 3.6 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) from the University of Cincinnati. These courses also meet the BCSP criteria for continuation of certification (CSP) credit.

System Safety Management Course – SSM-102

The SSM-102 is a 5-day introductory course for the establishment of a system safety engineering program to support the common best practices of industry and the contractual requirements of the government using a Mil-Std 882 approach. The course includes a week-long exercise to demonstrate the concepts of each lecture session. The course will include an introduction and study of:

  • The system safety discipline to include the definition of commonly used terms such as mishap, hazard, failure mode, probability, severity, risk, risk management and risk acceptance
  • System safety standards and compliance
  • Functional Hazard Assessments and the identification of safety-related functions. Defining the difference between safety-critical and safety-significant
  • The system safety process within acquisition life cycle models to include the Waterfall, “V” and Spiral models
  • Mishap and Hazard analysis methods and techniques to include the common analysis methods of Mil-Std 882
  • The integration of software safety engineering into the traditional system safety engineering approach. An introduction to both software assurance and software safety processes
  • Defining safety requirements for design, safety systems, warning devices, procedures and training
  • The management tasks of a system safety engineering program
  • Fault tree analysis and other traditional root cause analysis methods
  • Producing the Safety Case with the require system safety engineering artifacts

Software Safety Engineering – SSE 201

The SSE-201 is a 5-day introductory course for the establishment and execution of both software safety assurance and software safety hazard analysis processes and tasks. This course introduces the concepts of the DOD Joint Software System Safety Guidebook and Mil-Std 882D Rev1. The course includes a week-long exercise to demonstrate the concepts of each lecture session. The course will include and introduction and study of:

  • The concepts of both software safety assurance and software safety failure analysis
  • Software safety as an integrated element of the traditional system safety management and engineering approach
  • Software safety standards and compliance
  • The Functional Hazard Assessment to identify, document, and trace software-related safety-critical and safety-significant functions in the system and software design architecture
  • Performing the mishap and hazard analysis to include software specific causal factors
  • Mishap and hazard elimination, mitigation and/or control to acceptable levels of risk
  • Fault tree analysis and the identification of software-specific causal factors
  • Software safety requirements identification, allocation, and traceability
  • Defining good safety requirements for software. Includes fault detection, isolation, annunciation, tolerance and recovery techniques
  • Software safety testing
  • Developing the Safety Case for software-intensive, safety-critical systems

Course Instructor

Mr. Steven Mattern has accumulated a broad range of government, commercial and education-related experience in acquisition management and engineering on major system procurements. He possesses over 27 years of USAF active-duty and private sector systems engineering, system safety and software safety experience. Steven is one of the primary authors of the DOD Software System Safety Engineering Handbook and a key contributor to updates of Mil-Std 882. He is a Fellow Member of the International System Safety Society and a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Please contact Mr. Mattern for further attendance information or the scheduling of courses for your company or government agency.


Steven Mattern
Bastion Technologies
1308 Bellevue Blvd North
Bellevue, NE 68005-4013
(402) 502-3657 – Direct
(256) 783-0195 – Cell

smattern@bastiontechnologies.com

 
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