AI & Functional Safety: Building an EU AI Act Risk Management System (Article 9)

Date
2027-03-12
Location
Online
Host
Zach L

About this event

A live 30-minute expert session on Building an EU AI Act Risk Management System (Article 9) (AI / ML — AI & Machine Learning Safety). What We'll Cover: What Article 9 risk management is and how it runs across the whole AI lifecycle, not just design The core loop step by step: identify, estimate, evaluate, mitigate, test — including residual-risk acceptance decisions How Article 9 maps to HARA/SOTIF analyses and the risk register, test evidence and review records it produces Common mistakes: one-shot risk assessments with no post-market feedback loop into the risk file The living risk-management documentation and update history an AI Act auditor or notified body looks for Related topics: ai act article 9 · ai risk management · high risk ai · residual risk ai · risk register · post market mo

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About Functional Safety Foundations

This online session delivers expert-led instruction on the regulatory landscape and implementation approach for Functional Safety Foundations.

The cross-sector fundamentals underlying every functional safety standard: risk as severity × likelihood, the safety function concept, integrity levels, the safety lifecycle, and the split between random and systematic failures.

What it regulates

Shared vocabulary and reasoning: hazard → risk → risk reduction allocation → safety requirement → verified implementation → maintained integrity in operation.

Who must comply

Everyone entering the field — the conceptual base of the entire catalog.

Key requirements of Functional Safety Foundations

  • Hazard and risk fundamentals
  • Safety function anatomy: sensor-logic-actuator with defined safe state
  • Integrity ladders (SIL/PL/ASIL/DAL) as risk-reduction currencies
  • Random vs systematic failure treatment
  • Lifecycle and management of functional safety incl. competence

Key concepts: Functional Safety Foundations

Functional safety management
Planning, competence, documentation and assessment wrapped around technical work.
Risk reduction allocation
Distributing required risk reduction among mechanical design, safeguards, control functions and procedures.
Random vs systematic
Hardware wear-out/chance failures quantified statistically versus design/process errors controlled by rigor.
Safe state
The defined condition a function drives the equipment to on demand or fault.

Frequently asked questions: Functional Safety Foundations

Why can't testing alone prove safety?

Rare-event targets (like 1e-7/h) are unverifiable by test duration, and systematic errors evade random testing — hence the standards' dual machinery of quantified hardware analysis plus process rigor and independent assessment.

Standard information based on the published text of Functional Safety Foundations. Event content is provided by the host. For authoritative guidance, consult the official standard body.