EN 61508-1:2001

Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 1: General requirements

Sets out a generic approach for all safety lifecycle activities for systems comprised of electrical and/or electronic and/or programmable electronic components (electrical / electronic / programmable electronic systems (E/E/PESs)) that are used to perform safety functions. This unified approach has been adopted in order that a rational and consistent technical policy be developed for all electrically-based safety-related systems. Is intended to facilitate the development of application sector standards. Has the status of a basic safety publication in accordance with IEC Guide 104.

Funktionale Sicherheit sicherheitsbezogener elektrischer/elektronischer/programmierbarer elektronischer Systeme - Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen

Sécurité fonctionnelle des systèmes électriques/électroniques/électroniques programmables relatifs à la sécurité - Partie 1: Prescriptions générales

Présente une approche générique de toutes les activités liées au cycle de vie de sécurité de systèmes électriques / électroniques / électroniques porgrammables (E/E/PES) qui sont utilisés pour réaliser des fonctions de sécurité. Cette approche unifiée a été adoptée afin de développer une politique technique rationelle et cohérente concernant tous les appareils électriques liées à la sécurité. Déstinée à faciliter l'élaboration de normes par secteur d'application. A le statut, d'une publication fondamentale de sécurité conformément au Guide 104.

Funkcijska varnost električnih/elektronskih/programirljivih elektronskih varnostnih sistemov - 1. del: Splošne zahteve (IEC 61508-1:1998 + popravek 1999)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 20-Dec-2001
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Jul-2004
• ICS: 13.110 - Safety of machinery
• ICS: 25.040 - Industrial automation systems
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• ICS: 35.240.50 - IT applications in industry
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 65A - System aspects
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 65A - IEC_SC_65A
• Parallel Committee: IEC/SC 65A - IEC_SC_65A
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 01-May-2013
• Completion Date: 01-May-2013
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61508-1:2007 - Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems -- Part 1: General requirements

Relations

• Replaced By: EN 61508-1:2010 - Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 1: General requirements
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61508-1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM December 2001
ICS 13.110;25.040;29.020;35.240.50
English version
Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems
Part 1: General requirements
(IEC 61508-1:1998 + corrigendum 1999)
Sécurité fonctionnelle des systèmes Funktionale Sicherheit
électriques/électroniques/électroniques sicherheitsbezogener elektrischer/
programmables relatifs à la sécurité elektronischer/programmierbarer
Partie 1: Prescriptions générales elektronischer Systeme
(CEI 61508-1:1998 + corrigendum 1999) Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen
(IEC 61508-1:1998 + Corrigendum 1999)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2001-07-03. CENELEC members are bound to
comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European
Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and
notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
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© 2001 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 61508-1:2001 E
Foreword
The text of the International Standard IEC 61508-1:1998 including its corrigendum May 1999,
prepared by SC 65A, System aspects, of IEC TC 65, Industrial-process measurement and control,
was submitted to the Unique Acceptance Procedure and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61508-1
on 2001-07-03 without any modification.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2002-08-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2004-08-01
Annexes designated "normative" are part of the body of the standard.
Annexes designated "informative" are given for information only.
In this standard, annex ZA is normative and annexes A, B and C are informative.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
IEC 61508 is a basic safety publication covering the functional safety of electrical, electronic and
programmable electronic safety-related systems. The scope states:
"This International Standard covers those aspects to be considered when electrical/electronic/
programmable electronic systems (E/E/PESs) are used to carry out safety functions. A major objective
of this standard is to facilitate the development of application sector international standards by the
technical committees responsible for the application sector. This will allow all the relevant factors
associated with the application, to be fully taken into account and thereby meet the specific needs of
the application sector. A dual objective of this standard is to enable the development of
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic (E/E/PE) safety-related systems where application sector
international standards may not exist".
The CENELEC Report R0BT-004, ratified by 103 BT (March 2000) accepts that some IEC standards,
which today are either published or under development, are sector implementations of IEC 61508. For
example:
� IEC 61511, Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector;
� IEC 62061, Safety of machinery – Functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable
electronic control systems;
� IEC 61513, Nuclear power plants – Instrumentation and control for systems important to safety –
General requirements for systems.
The railways sector has also developed a set of European Standards (EN 50126; EN 50128 and
prEN 50129).
NOTE  EN 50126 and EN 50128 were based on earlier drafts of IEC 61508. prEN 50129 is based on the principles of the
latest version of IEC 61508.
This list does not preclude other sector implementations of IEC 61508 which could be currently under
development or published within IEC or CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61508-1:1998 including its corrigendum May 1999 was
approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 61355:1997 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61355:1997 (not modified).
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
This European Standard incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other
publications. These normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the
publications are listed hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any
of these publications apply to this European Standard only when incorporated in it by amendment or
revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies (including
amendments).
NOTE When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
ISO/IEC Guide 51 1990 Guidelines for the inclusion of safety--
aspects in standards
IEC Guide 104 1997 The preparation of safety publications--
and the use of basic safety publications
and group safety publications
IEC 61508-2 2000 Functional safety of EN 61508-2 2001
electrical/electronic/programmable
electronic safety-related systems
Part 2: Requirements for
electrical/electronic/programmable
electronic safety-related systems
IEC 61508-3 1998 Part 3: Software requirements EN 61508-3 2001
+ corr. April 1999
IEC 61508-4 1998 Part 4: Definitions and abbreviations EN 61508-4 2001
+ corr. April 1999
IEC 61508-5 1998 Part 5: Examples of methods for the EN 61508-5 2001
+ corr. April 1999 determination of safety integrity levels
IEC 61508-6 2000 Part 6: Guidelines on the application of EN 61508-6 2001
IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3
IEC 61508-7 2000 Part 7: Overview of techniques and EN 61508-7 2001
measures
INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD
61508-1
First edition
1998-12
BASIC SAFETY PUBLICATION
Functional safety of electrical/electronic/
programmable electronic safety-related systems –
Part 1:
General requirements
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61508-1 © IEC:1998 – 3 –
CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD . 7
INTRODUCTION . 11
Clause
1 Scope . 15
2 Normative references . 21
3 Definitions and abbreviations. 21
4 Conformance to this standard. 23
5 Documentation. 23
5.1 Objectives. 23
5.2 Requirements . 25
6 Management of functional safety . 27
6.1 Objectives. 27
6.2 Requirements . 27
7 Overall safety lifecycle requirements . 31
7.1 General. 31
7.2 Concept . 49
7.3 Overall scope definition. 49
7.4 Hazard and risk analysis . 51
7.5 Overall safety requirements. 55
7.6 Safety requirements allocation . 57
7.7 Overall operation and maintenance planning . 69
7.8 Overall safety validation planning . 71
7.9 Overall installation and commissioning planning . 73
7.10 Realisation: E/E/PES. 75
7.11 Realisation: other technology . 75
7.12 Realisation: external risk reduction facilities . 75
7.13 Overall installation and commissioning . 77
7.14 Overall safety validation . 77
7.15 Overall operation, maintenance and repair. 79
7.16 Overall modification and retrofit. 85
7.17 Decommissioning or disposal . 89
7.18 Verification. 91
8 Functional safety assessment. 93
8.1 Objective . 93
8.2 Requirements . 93

61508-1 © IEC:1998 – 5 –
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Example documentation structure. 99
A.1 General . 99
A.2 Safety lifecycle document structure . 101
A.3 Physical document structure . 107
A.4 List of documents. 111
Annex B (informative) Competence of persons. 113
B.1 Objective . 113
B.2 General considerations . 113
Annex C (informative) Bibliography . 115
Tables
1 Overall safety lifecycle: overview . 39
2 Safety integrity levels: target failure measures for a safety function, allocated to
an E/E/PE safety-related system operating in low demand mode of operation . 65
3 Safety integrity levels: target failure measures for a safety function, allocated to
an E/E/PE safety-related system operating in high demand or continuous mode
of operation.65
4 Minimum levels of independence of those carrying out functional safety assessment
(overall safety lifecycle phases 1 to 8 and 12 to 16 inclusive (see figure 2)) . 97
5 Minimum levels of independence of those carrying out functional safety assessment
(overall safety lifecycle phase 9 - includes all phases of E/E/PES and software safety
lifecycles (see figures 2, 3 and 4)) .
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