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Robot Safety Fundamentals: ISO 10218 & ISO 3691-4
A grounding course for teams building industrial, collaborative, and mobile robots. We move from item definition and hazard analysis through risk reduction and verification — the safety lifecycle that ISO 10218 and ISO 3691-4 expect for robots that share space with people.
What you’ll learn
Outcomes your team can apply on real hardware.
01
Write a clear item definition and operational boundary
02
Run a bottom-up FMEA to isolate sensor and actuation failure modes
03
Apply ISO 10218 and ISO 3691-4 risk-reduction measures
04
Plan verification & validation for human-shared operation
Curriculum
Module outline.
A structured path from fundamentals to audit-ready evidence. Expand any module to see its lessons.
- Standards landscape
- Collaborative vs. industrial
- Mobile robots (AMRs)
- Performance boundaries
- Operating modes
- Foreseeable misuse
- Bottom-up FMEA
- Sensor & actuation failure modes
- Speed & separation
- Safety functions
- ISO 3691-4 zones
- Requirements specification
- Test planning
- Physical V&V
- Evidence for assessors
5 modules · 15 lessons · Certificate of completion
Standards covered
Grounded in the standards that matter.
ISO 10218-1/-2·ISO 3691-4·ISO 13849·IEC 61508
Your instructor
Taught by a principal safety engineer.
Ben Twombly
Founder & CEO · Principal Safety Engineer
Ben Twombly is the founder of Critical Systems Analysis and the principal engineer behind every CSA program. He holds an FS Engineer certification from TÜV Rheinland and the Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP) certification.
Before founding CSA in May 2023, Ben spent six years as a Senior Safety Engineer at TÜV Rheinland, preparing clients for safety assessments across a wide range of safety-critical systems. He earned his degree in robotics from the Colorado School of Mines. At CSA he works with robotics companies, autonomous vehicle manufacturers, industrial machinery firms, battery management system developers, and rail transit organizations across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
FS Engineer · Certified by TÜV Rheinland IFSP · Industrial Functional Safety Professional B.S. Robotics · Colorado School of Mines
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