New approach to functional safety work products for advanced automotive projects

The dynamically developing automotive industry poses increasing challenges to manufacturers due to the increasing complexity of electronic systems used in cars and high safety requirements. The ISO 26262 standard gives guidelines for project management in the field of functional safety. It included lists of work products, which usually prepare fundamental documents in the field of functional safety, such as development interface agreement or functional safety plan, etc.. The degree of implementation of the mentioned work products helps in the arguments about the ultimate safety of the product. ISO 26262 is a standard aimed at the possibility of its wide application (also for the simplest products), unfortunately for highly complex products such as integrated safety systems, such high-level work products can be too general without contributing key information at the start of the project. The article presents a list of additional, more precise work products dedicated specifically to highly advanced safety systems in automotive projects. It can be used at the request for quote stage when building documentation for functional safety. In addition, the list of work products listed and introduced to the additional process helps to determine the scope of responsibilities in the organization at the beginning of the project. Especially where the issues of functional safety and safety of the intended functionality are presented. This helps to avoid the risk of security liability gaps with potentially fatal consequences for the end-user.