This new code is designed to help companies assess and maintain the competence of their engineering staff particularly in safety critical areas and industries. It sets out the competencies expected and evidence required to prove competence in specific tasks and helps organisations create schemes for monitoring and measuring the competencies of its employees.   Human error is still recognised as the most frequent cause of problems within systems and the field of safety critical systems / “functional safety” continues to develop along with the complexity of systems


About the Author:

Chair of the Functional Safety TPN and lead technical author for the Code of Practice is Dr Carl Sandom.   


Carl is the Director of iSys Integrity Limited; a UK-based independent safety consultancy operating worldwide and specializing in safe systems acquisition, development and certification within the Aerospace and Defence domains. Carl is a member of the British Standards Institute committee contributing to IEC 61508 development, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a registered Member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.  Carl has published and presented numerous peer-reviewed papers and articles on the subject of Systems Safety.


The working group also features several of the Functional Safety TPN Exec Team  - 

Ron Bell,Engineering Safety Consultants Ltd

John Canning, Virkonnen  Ltd

Ron Pierce, JDF Consultancy