On 7 April 2014, the IET Bristol Local Network held a joint event with the Safety Community.  Ron Pierce, the current Chairman of the Community Steering Group, gave a presentation titled Functional Safety Made Easy.  His talk introduced some of the concepts and general principals of managing functional safety in critical systems, including some of the insights he has gathered through working as the nominated UK expert on MT61508-3, the standards committee responsible for maintaining IEC 61508 Part 3.  The presentation, liberally illustrated with anecdotes from Ron's career in software engineering, went down well with the audience and inspired a lively Q&A session!



Slides from the talk are available in the Bristol Network's Files Area on MyCommunity.



Volunteers from the Safety Community Steering Group are willing to give presentations to local networks and other groups around the country.  If you are interested, get in touch with Ron Pierce.