The ECSS Q-40 (Safety) training course will provide participants with some basic knowledge about the ESA safety requirements, approach and policy. It aims to create an understanding of the interactions between safety and the other programmatic and technical disciplines of ESA projects as well as of the tailoring of the safety requirements to project/mission specific objectives. An overview of the main safety analyses and activities to support the process for the requirements implementation will also be provided.

The course aims to:

• Develop participants' basic knowledge of the ESA safety policy and principles;
• Develop participants' basic knowledge of the main safety documents applied in ESA Programmes;
• create an understanding of safety requirements and associated activities applicable to ESA projects including a brief overview of Hazard Analysis (HA), Safety Data Package (SDP) and Verification Tracking Log (VTL);
• create an understanding of the safety activities to be developed along the project life and acquisition of basic knowledge of the Safety Reviews process;
• create an understanding of the tailoring process of safety requirements to establish ITT and project requirements.

The course will address the ECSS Q-40 Safety Discipline and ECSS-Q-ST-40C, including the following:

• Overview of the safety discipline;
• Relationships and interfaces between safety and other programmatic/technical disciplines;
• Evaluation of the main safety documents applicable to ESA projects (e.g. ECSS-Q-ST-40 and of the main launch authority safety applicable documents);
• Understanding of safety requirements including their tailoring and flow-down from system to lower levels;
• Overview of the safety analyses and of the safety review process;
• Explanation of the use of safety analyses to control and monitor the safety requirements' correct implementation and verification.

The objective of the ECSS Q-40 Safety course is to provide participants with some basic knowledge about the ECSS Q-40 discipline and the safety activities to be performed in ESA projects, and to address the practical implementation of the requirements in ECSS-Q-ST-40C.

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This ECSS session will be recorded and will be made available online afterwards.