Taught by practitioners
Principal safety engineers who certify real systems — not career instructors.
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Functional safety training,
built for working engineers.
Practical, on-demand and private courses that turn dense standards into real-world practice — taught by the principal engineers who certify real systems. Train your team on the exact standards your products must meet.
SGS-TÜV Saar approved partner·Certificate of completion·6 programs
Why train with CSA
Training from engineers who certify real systems.
Built around your hardware
Workshops tailored to your team’s active blueprints and components.
Approved partner credentials
Flagship IEC 61508 training delivered as an approved SGS-TÜV Saar partner.
Defensible decision-making
Every course centers on failure modes, lessons learned, and audit-ready reasoning.
Learning tracks
Choose your industry track.
Every program is grounded in the standards and hazards of a specific sector. Pick the track that matches your systems — or browse the full catalog.
4 courses
Robotics
ISO 10218 · ISO 3691-4 · ISO 13849
Safe design for industrial, collaborative, and mobile robots operating in unstructured, human-shared environments.
- Custom Floor-Ready Workshops
- Independent Risk Assessment Facilitation
- Robot Safety Fundamentals: ISO 10218 & ISO 3691-4
- Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP)
3 courses
Rail
EN 50126 · EN 50128 · EN 50129
Fail-safe signaling, train-control architectures, and certifiable safety cases across the RAMS lifecycle.
- Independent Risk Assessment Facilitation
- Rail Safety Case Authoring: EN 50126 / 50128 / 50129
- Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP)
4 courses
Industrial Machinery
ISO 12100 · ISO 13849 · IEC 62061
Compliant, defensible safety architectures and Performance Level verification for fixed and mobile machinery.
- Custom Floor-Ready Workshops
- Independent Risk Assessment Facilitation
- ISO 13849 Performance Level Verification Essentials
- Industrial Functional Safety Professional (IFSP)
Your instructor
Ben Twombly
Founder & CEO · Principal Safety Engineer · Sarasota, Florida
FS Engineer
Certified by TÜV Rheinland
Certified by TÜV Rheinland
IFSP
Industrial Functional Safety Professional
Industrial Functional Safety Professional
B.S. Robotics
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines
Taught by the founder
Learn from the engineer who certifies these systems.
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.
6 yrs
Senior Safety Engineer at TÜV Rheinland
3
Continents of certification experience
1st
IEC 61508-certified collaborative AMR
Private & custom delivery
Want a program built for your team?
Bring any course to your engineers as a private virtual session or an in-person custom workshop — scheduled around your calendar and tailored to your active hardware.