Machine Safety blog: UL offers functional safety certification

UL is offering functional safety certification, and the Control Engineering Machine Control blog has additional comments about functional safety certification, with a place to leave your views and questions.

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UL is offering functional safety certification, and the Control Engineering Machine Control has advice on functional safety certification, with a place to leave your views and questions.

In addition to evaluating products for functional safety, UL also said it would:

• Develop Validation Plans
• Develop Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Develop Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Develop Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA)
• Develop Safety Plans
• Develop Software FMEA/Software Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis
• Develop integrated test plan, including identifying appropriate environmental conditions for testing (such as humidity, EMI, vibration, etc.)
• Create safety manual
• Develop safety case, including development of risk analysis
• Draft functional safety management plan
• Calculate or verify Safety Integrity Levels (SIL), Performance Level (PL), or Class, etc.

UL will also provide:

• Functional Safety Component Recognition Mark
• Functional Safety Listing Mark
• Functional Safety Test Reports
• IEC 61508 Introductory Training
• IEC 61800-5-2 Functional Safety in Motor Drives Training
• 3-year Functional Safety Certificate
• Type examination report

Learn more from UL on functional safety.

Read the Machine Safety blog post: Functional Safety - A New "Mark" From UL.