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ISO 26262-2:2011(E)
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ISO 2011
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
ISO
26262-2
First edition
2011-11-15
Road vehicles — Functional safety —
Part 2:
Management of functional safety
Véhicules routiers — Sécurité fonctionnelle —
Partie 2: Gestion de la sécurité fonctionnelle
ISO 26262-2:2011(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................ iv
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... v
1 Scope ...................................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Normative references ............................................................................................................................ 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms .......................................................................................... 2
4 Requirements for compliance .............................................................................................................. 2
4.1 General requirements ........................................................................................................................... 2
4.2 Interpretations of tables ........................................................................................................................ 2
4.3 ASIL-dependent requirements and recommendations ..................................................................... 3
5 Overall safety management .................................................................................................................. 3
5.1 Objective ................................................................................................................................................ 3
5.2 General ................................................................................................................................................... 3
5.3 Inputs to this clause .............................................................................................................................. 7
5.4 Requirements and recommendations ................................................................................................. 7
5.5 Work products ....................................................................................................................................... 9
6 Safety management during the concept phase and the product development .............................. 9
6.1 Objectives .............................................................................................................................................. 9
6.2 General ................................................................................................................................................... 9
6.3 Inputs to this clause ............................................................................................................................ 10
6.4 Requirements and recommendations ............................................................................................... 10
6.5 Work products ..................................................................................................................................... 17
7 Safety management after the item's release for production ........................................................... 17
7.1 Objective .............................................................................................................................................. 17
7.2 General ................................................................................................................................................. 17
7.3 Inputs to this clause ............................................................................................................................ 17
7.4 Requirements and recommendations ............................................................................................... 18
7.5 Work products ..................................................................................................................................... 18
Annex A (informative) Overview of and workflow of functional safety management ................................ 19
Annex B (informative) Examples for evaluating a safety culture ................................................................. 20
Annex C (informative) Aim of the confirmation measures ........................................................................... 21
Annex D (informative) Overview of the verification reviews ........................................................................ 23
Annex E (informative) Example of a functional safety assessment agenda (for items that have an
ASIL D safety goal) .............................................................................................................................. 24
Bibliography ...................................................................................................................................................... 26
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Foreword
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ISO 26262-2 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 22, Road vehicles, Subcommittee SC 3,
Electrical and electronic equipment.
ISO 26262 consists of the following parts, under the general title Road vehicles — Functional safety:
Part 1: Vocabulary
Part 2: Management of functional safety
Part 3: Concept phase
Part 4: Product development at the system level
Part 5: Product development at the hardware level
Part 6: Product development at the software level
Part 7: Production and operation
Part 8: Supporting processes
Part 9: Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL)-oriented and safety-oriented analyses
Part 10: Guideline on ISO 26262
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Introduction
ISO 26262 is the adaptation of IEC 61508 to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical
and/or electronic (E/E) systems within road vehicles.
This adaptation applies to all activities during the safety lifecycle of safety-related systems comprised of
electrical, electronic and software components.
Safety is one of the key issues of future automobile development. New functionalities not only in areas such
as driver assistance, propulsion, in vehicle dynamics control and active and passive safety systems
increasingly touch the domain of system safety engineering. Development and integration of these
functionalities will strengthen the need for safe system development processes and the need to provide
evidence that all reasonable system safety objectives are satisfied.
With the trend of increasing technological complexity, software content and mechatronic implementation, there
are increasing risks from systematic failures and random hardware failures. ISO 26262 includes guidance to
avoid these risks by providing appropriate requirements and processes.
System safety is achieved through a number of safety measures, which are implemented in a variety of
technologies (e.g. mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic, programmable electronic) and
applied at the various levels of the development process. Although ISO 26262 is concerned with functional
safety of E/E systems, it provides a framework within which safety-related systems based on other
technologies can be considered. ISO 26262:
a) provides an automotive safety lifecycle (management, development, production, operation, service,
decommissioning) and supports tailoring the necessary activities during these lifecycle phases;
b) provides an automotive-specific risk-based approach to determine integrity levels [Automotive Safety
Integrity Levels (ASIL)];
c) uses ASILs to specify applicable requirements of ISO 26262 so as to avoid unreasonable residual risk;
d) provides requirements for validation and confirmation measures to ensure a sufficient and acceptable
level of safety being achieved;
e) provides requirements for relations with suppliers.
Functional safety is influenced by the development process (including such activities as requirements
specification, design, implementation, integration, verification, validation and configuration), the production
and service processes and by the management processes.
Safety issues are intertwined with common function-oriented and quality-oriented development activities and
work products. ISO 26262 addresses the safety-related aspects of development activities and work products.
Figure 1 shows the overall structure of this edition of ISO 26262. ISO 26262 is based upon a V-model as a
reference process model for the different phases of product development. Within the figure:
the shaded “V”s represent the interconnection between ISO 26262-3, ISO 26262-4, ISO 26262-5,
ISO 26262-6 and ISO 26262-7;
the specific clauses are indicated in the following manner: “m-n”, where “m” represents the number of the
particular part and “n” indicates the number of the clause within that part.
EXAMPLE “2-6” represents Clause 6 of ISO 26262-2.
