4-Day Course Overview

This course will cover functional safety standards and concepts related to earth moving machinery.

Applicable standards covered in this training include the EU Machinery Directive, ISO 19014:2018, Methodology to determine safety related parts of the control system and performance requirements, and ISO 25119:2018, Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry – Safety-related parts of control systems. UL experts will cover such topics as hazard identification and risk assessment in accordance with ISO 12100:2010, Safety of Machinery – General principles for design – Risk assessment and risk reduction. Case studies on a range of topics, including motor drives and safety product life cycles, will also be used to provide examples of how the requirements and concepts of the standards are applied.

ISO 25119, ISO 19014 and the EU Machinery Directive Training Topics

  • Role of ISO 19014 and ISO 25119 in machine safety regulations
    • EU Machinery Directive
    • Tractor Mother Regulation (TMR)
  • Comparative overview of ISO 19014 and ISO 25119
  • Hazard identification and risk assessment according to the ISO 12100 standard
  • Design in accordance with ISO 25119
    • Agriculture performance level (AgPL) assignment
    • Risk reduction and required performance level
    • Determination of required performance level
    • Parameters of performance level
    • Mean time to dangerous failure (MTTF), diagnostic coverage (DC)
    • How to perform failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA)
    • Specification of requirements for safety related control functions (SRCFs)
    • Software safety requirements and Software Requirement Level (SRL)
    • Functional decomposition
    • Realization of subsystems
    • Determination of the safety performance of the subsystem
    • Estimation of the rate of dangerous failure per hour (PFHD) of subsystems
    • Contribution of CCF
  • Design in accordance with ISO 19014 (considering overlaps with ISO 25119)
    • Performance level (MPL) assignment
    • Measures to avoid common cause failures (CCF)
    • Failures to be considered and fault exclusion
    • Evaluation of performance level (simplified procedure)
    • Software-based parameterization
    • Combination of safety-related parts of control systems (SRP/CS) to achieve MPL
  • The future of ISO 25119 and ISO 19014
  • Identify the required risk reduction and functional safety ratings (PL and AgPL) to be provided by control systems
  • Develop a safety concept that satisfies the requirements of both ISO 19014 and ISO 25119
  • Apply the steps required by both ISO 19014 and ISO 25119 to achieve the required risk reduction and validate it

Optional UL-CFSP Exam

Participants who complete all 4 days of training are eligible to take a two hour certification exam. Those who pass the exam are individually certified as a UL Certified Functional Safety Professional in Agricultural Machinery.