Membership
Our members are a mix of roles, responsibilities, and competencies but collectively we have identified some main member benefits.
Benefits of membership (membership fees apply):
Opportunity to discuss and debate with like-minded functional safety practitioners.
Meet with other members across the supply chain to share functional safety application knowledge.
Access to interesting functional safety presentations from members and selected guests.
Sense of functional safety community and associated support.
Opportunity for functional safety biased networking with members and observers.
Opportunity to understand current trends, opportunities, challenges, and solutions in functional safety.
Mechanism for staying abreast of industrial functional safety and associated topics.
Participate in the forming of industry guidance and the updating of standards (incl. CASS templates).
Mechanism for widening / developing your functional safety awareness (other sectors).
Mechanism to demonstrate functional safety continuous personal development (CPD) to relevant stakeholders (e.g., UKAS, HSE).
Opportunity for social interaction with a community of functional safety practitioners.
Opportunity to understand the policies and practices of regulators and conformity assessment bodies.
Apply to join The 61508 Association
As safety systems have become more complex so the need has grown to provide confidence that they will perform in the intended manner whenever they are called upon to do so. IEC 61508, provides a framework for all parties to work together to ensure that systems operate to the required level of integrity. Whether you are a specifier, designer, manufacturer, integrator, installer, operator or maintainer of safety systems, you need to find out how IEC 61508, and related standards, can help.
If you are considering joining our not-for-profit Association, we can offer for prospective members to attend a general meeting in-person as a guest.