Standards Development

Scope

This document provides a terminology and basic principles for coordinating multiple risk assessments conducted respectively by different stakeholders of a system of interest (SoI) for implementing coexistence and/or collaboration in manufacturing systems.

The document additionally provides:

–        a generic classification of systems with machine(s) and human(s) as constituent;

–        a generic classification of risk assessments for SoI;

–        a generic classification of stakeholders involved in the life cycle of SoI;

–        principles for providing SoI models for risk assessment coordination;

–        principles of exchanging information concerning risk assessments between the stakeholders.

Requirements for risk assessment itself are excluded from the scope of this document.

While this document intends to be applied to systems for industrial automation, it can be applied to other systems where humans and machines coexist.