This unit investigates major management aspects of functional safety engineering on organisational and project level. The definition and management of so-called Safety Cases assumes a central role in the functional safety management activities, as safety cases are at the root of modern functional safety engineering methods.
An essential element of introducing standard compliant function safety management is that the implementation of safety activities is monitored, and that the progress is tracked and reviewed. A safety plan documents the process used to analyse system safety and enumerates the mitigation techniques being used to ensure safe system operation.