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Independent Risk Assessment Facilitation Training
An engineering workshop that trains your internal staff in the investigative mindset of an independent safety challenger. Your team masters the bottom-up detective process of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and the top-down deductive reasoning of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to confidently challenge internal design assumptions.
What you’ll learn
Outcomes your team can apply on real hardware.
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Facilitate a rigorous, blame-free FMEA workshop
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Build and quantify fault trees (FTA) for top events
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Challenge design assumptions like an independent assessor
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Translate findings into prioritized, traceable safety requirements
Curriculum
Module outline.
A structured path from fundamentals to audit-ready evidence. Expand any module to see its lessons.
- Why independence matters
- Facilitation principles
- Common analysis traps
- Functional decomposition
- Failure modes & effects
- Detection & RPN
- Defining top events
- Gates & cut sets
- Quantification
- Preparation & inputs
- Leading the room
- Capturing actions
- Prioritization
- Traceability
- Closing the loop
5 modules · 15 lessons · Certificate of completion
Standards covered
Grounded in the standards that matter.
IEC 61508·ISO 13849·ISO 26262
Your instructor
Taught by a principal safety engineer.
Ben Twombly
Founder & CEO · Principal Safety Engineer
Ben Twombly is the founder of Critical Systems Analysis and the principal engineer behind every CSA program. He holds an FS Engineer certification from TÜV Rheinland and the Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP) certification.
Before founding CSA in May 2023, Ben spent six years as a Senior Safety Engineer at TÜV Rheinland, preparing clients for safety assessments across a wide range of safety-critical systems. He earned his degree in robotics from the Colorado School of Mines. At CSA he works with robotics companies, autonomous vehicle manufacturers, industrial machinery firms, battery management system developers, and rail transit organizations across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
FS Engineer · Certified by TÜV Rheinland IFSP · Industrial Functional Safety Professional B.S. Robotics · Colorado School of Mines
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