Standards + training helps to reduce health and safety risk
The IEC, in conjunction with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the IEC National Committee of India, is planning an IEC Standards+ Training Course: "Helping to Achieve Functional Safety through IEC 61508", in India in late November 2008.
Co-organized by Book Supply Bureau (BSB), this training course is just one of the additional services that is part of the IEC Standards+ philosophy. IEC Standards+ aims to offer a new approach to various aspects of electrotechnical standardization concentrating on providing value-added services.
The IEC Sales department set up its first training courses in 1999. In 2005, it introduced the concept of IEC Roadshows – a flexible programme aimed at increasing awareness about standards and the benefits of standardization that included such topics as deliverables, services, electronic subscriptions, the IEC webstore and sales statistics.
The proposed IEC Standards+ Training Course, this time geared towards industry as opposed to sales outlets, is to cover some of the key areas concerned with IEC standardization, starting with the management of safety. Indeed, International Standard IEC 61508, Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems, is pan-industry and key to many different business sectors.
Safety forms an inherent part of the administration of any modern industry but is becoming increasingly complex to manage due to the computerized electronic systems that are used to control it. The term "Safety" applies both in the sense of immediate physical risks of human injury or damage to health and through the indirect environmental consequences that can arise. At the same time, it needs to satisfy regulatory requirements imposed by governments and the quality requirements that are desired by partners and clients. Increasingly, safety is part of a growing company culture in which all employees have, to varying degrees, a role to play. That understanding also requires specialist training.
The course will be led by Ron Bell, the convenor of SC 65A /WG 14, which is responsible for the IEC 61508-0 Functional Safety Guide.
"IEC 61508 is a large and complex International Standard and it is difficult to make progress in applying its various aspects without a good understanding of the fundamentals,” he says. “We'll be looking at the essentials of the complex electronic systems that are used to control safety, the risk-based approaches to developing safety requirement specifications and key compliance areas.".
"Registration costs have been kept to a minimum," says Guilaine Fournet, Sales Manager at IEC Central Office. “If you register before 30 August, the one day and a half seminar costs CHF 300.-. After that, we're going to be charging CHF 400.- which is still minimal as a fee for professional training."
The IEC Standards+ training sessions are to take place in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. This follows Guilaine Fournet's visit to India last year. Together with China and Brazil, India is one of the three leading emerging countries in the world and, in recent years, has seen a fast upturn in the use of International Standards.
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