What is Safety goal?

The top-level safety requirement defined for each hazardous event found in the HARA. It is phrased like "prevent unintended sudden acceleration" and inherits the ASIL of that event.

Japanese name: 安全目標

Safety goal appears in 4 practice questions across 1 topic, including Automotive Semiconductors and Functional Safety.

Field: Automotive Semiconductors and Functional Safety

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Which correctly describes a "safety goal" in ISO 26262?

  1. AA top-level safety requirement determined from the results of hazard analysis and risk assessment, expressed for example as "do not cause unintended sudden acceleration," and assigned an ASIL
  2. BA target number of safety-related tests to be performed within a development project, where more tests are judged to mean higher safety
  3. CA target failure-rate value set for each component, independent of ASIL, with the same value used for all components
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Answer: A. A top-level safety requirement determined from the results of hazard analysis and risk assessment, expressed for example as "do not cause unintended sudden acceleration," and assigned an ASIL

A safety goal is a top-level safety requirement defined at the vehicle level to prevent a hazardous event identified in HARA. For electronic throttle control, for example, it is expressed as "do not cause unintended sudden acceleration," and it inherits the ASIL of that hazardous event. The safety goal is broken down step by step into functional safety requirements, technical safety requirements, and hardware and software requirements. It is neither a target number of tests nor a uniform failure-rate value unrelated to ASIL.

For PMHF, the metric for the probability that a safety goal is violated due to random hardware failures, the target guideline for ASIL D is less than 10 FIT. What is this expressed as a probability per hour?

  1. A1×10⁻⁶ /h
  2. B1×10⁻⁸ /h
  3. C1×10⁻¹⁰ /h
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Answer: B. 1×10⁻⁸ /h

1 FIT is one failure per 10⁹ hours, or 1×10⁻⁹ /h. Therefore 10 FIT is 10 × 10⁻⁹ = 1×10⁻⁸ /h. PMHF (Probabilistic Metric for random Hardware Failures) is the probability per hour, averaged over the vehicle's service life, that a safety goal is violated due to random hardware failures. Target guidelines are less than 100 FIT (10⁻⁷ /h) for ASIL B and C, and less than 10 FIT for ASIL D.

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Questions that mention Safety goal (4)

  1. Which correctly describes a "safety goal" in ISO 26262?
  2. For PMHF, the metric for the probability that a safety goal is violated due to random hardware failures, the target guideline for ASIL D is less than 10 FIT. What is this expressed as a probability per hour?
  3. Which is the correct target guideline for the single-point fault metric (SPFM) required for ASIL D?
  4. Which correctly describes FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis) performed in functional safety assessment?

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Related terms

ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) SPFM (single-point fault metric) ISO 26262 HARA (hazard analysis and risk assessment) FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) AEC-Q100 CAN bus Diagnostic coverage ECU (electronic control unit) FTTI (fault tolerant time interval)

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