Safety Certifier

Definition

Safety Certifier

the role that is played when a person independently certifies a system as being adequately safe for operational use

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Safety Certifier is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineer
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Safety Certifier are to:

• Assess the safety of the system:
  • Assess the technical validity of the safety case.
  • Obtain advice from the safety auditor and safety evaluator as to whether or not to certify the safety of the system.
• Produce the safety certificate.

Safety Certifier typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, safety certifiers typically should have the following expertise, training, and knowledge:

• Expert knowledge of and experience with safety engineering tasks, techniques, and tools.
• Expert knowledge of safety architectural mechanisms and components.
• Solid knowledge of safety requirements.
• Basic knowledge of the customer’s business and application domain(s).
• A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or the equivalent.
• One of the following safety certifications:
  • TBD

Tasks

Safety certifiers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Safety Engineering:
  • Safety Certification

Safety Certifier typically inherits common role tasks from the role method component.

Teams

Safety Certifier typically performs these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Safety Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, safety certifiers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Safety Work Products:
  • Safety Certificate

Guidelines

• The person playing the role of safety certifier may also play the role of safety auditor.
• The person playing the role of safety certifier must be managerially and commercially independent of the customer organization and the development organization.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles process component.