IEC 61508-1 Functional Safety of Electrical-Electronic, Programmable Electronic Safety-Related Systems - Part 1: General Requirements

EUROLAB laboratory provides testing and compliance services within the scope of IEC 61508-1 standard. It sets out a general approach to all safety lifecycle activities for systems consisting of electrical and electronic or programmable electronic components (electrical/electronic/programmable electronic systems (E/E/PESs)) used to perform safety functions.

This combined approach has been adopted to develop a rational and coherent technical policy for all electrical-based safety-related systems. The application aims to facilitate the development of industry standards.

This international standard sets out a general approach for all safety lifecycle activities for systems consisting of electrical and electronic or programmable electronic (E/E/PE) elements used to perform safety functions.

This combined approach has been adopted to develop a rational and coherent technical policy for all electrical-based safety-related systems. One of the main targets is the product and application industry international based on the IEC 61508 series.
to facilitate the development of standards.

In most cases, safety is ensured by a set of systems based on many technologies (e.g. mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic, programmable electronics).

Therefore, any security strategy must consider not only all elements in a single system (e.g. sensors, controllers and actuators), but also all security-related systems that make up the total combination of safety-related systems. Therefore, while this International Standard relates to E/E/PE security-related systems, it can also provide a framework within which security-related systems based on other technologies can be considered.

It is recognized that there is a wide variety of applications using E/E/PE security-related systems in various application sectors and covering a wide range of complexity, hazard and risk potentials. In any particular application, the required security measures will depend on many application-specific factors. As this international standard is general, it will ensure that such measures are formulated in future product and application industry international standards and revisions of already existing ones.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with IEC 61508-1 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.