Advanced Driver Assist Technologies (ADAT): Electromotive Vehicle Systems Ltd - Business Management System Assessment Answers

Business Management System Assignment

Assignment Task

• Introduction

• Purpose

The purpose of this document is to define the scope of work for the preparation of a system safety plan that is to be prepared for the Advanced Driver Assist Technologies (ADAT) project.

This document is intended for the ADAT project team

• Background/Context

The new business stream will provide autonomous technologies as aids to drivers, before developing into driverless vehicle technologies. Although driverless cars will inevitably become ubiquitous, the time it will take for transformation from human to machine driving will depend on the willingness of drivers to relinquish control. Some driverless technologies are already in mass-produced cars, in such forms as assisted (hands-free) parking, maintaining safe following distances, lane management in steady traffic, automatic braking when an imminent collision is sensed. These discrete elements can be combined, using sophisticated software, into an integrated driver-assist architecture, which will be the start of the next phase of business growth for EVS, culminating in fully autonomous, driverless architectures.

EVS has established the Advanced Driver Assist Technologies (ADAT) project to develop this new business stream. ADAT has the project identification number 4064-7164.162.

ADAT will start with the integrated driver-assist architecture that incorporates current functionality that exists only in discrete sub-systems, and develop it into a limited autonomous architecture. The major elements of the system are likely to feature:

• Communications sub-systems that will allow cars to form ad hoc mesh networks while on the road. Cars within those networks will be able to communicate critical safety information such as their speed and heading and whether they’re braking or accelerating, and they will also be able to link up with roadside sensor nodes and eventually a larger cloud-based intelligence. They will also communicate with the intelligent transportation systems of the highways infrastructure for broad area situational awareness
• Monitoring technology that uses sensors for close-in situational awareness to warn of imminent dangers (a pedestrian collision, lane departure, or forward collision) as well as headway monitoring, intelligent high-beam lights, traffic-sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and speed limit indications
• A built-in security solution that processes and authenticates every incoming information packet received by the vehicle, making them highly resistant to intrusions from hackers
• An autonomous controller for decision making, using a combination of cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and data to automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic

Task 1 – Team Preparation

• • Obtain WHS Regulations
  • Obtain the 4064.7164.162 Document Register
  • Obtain other resources as may be required, especially related relevant regulations

    • Obtain the necessary resources from the EVS Business Management System:

      • COR 005 TPL Meeting Minutes
      • PEM 050 HBK System Safety
      • COR 050 HBK Work Health and Safety
      • DES 050 TPL System Safety Plan
      • PCX 005 CWI Numbering of Project Documents
      • EPC 001 EPR Document Version Control

   

Task 2 – Team Work Plan

• • Evaluate all the requirements of this SOW and the system safety plan template, and identify and understand the section(s) which comprise the core of the document. Be sure to understand in advance of document preparation what is required in Section 3 of the template, especially Section 3.2 Safety Legislation and Standards
  • Prepare a Work Plan for the team that clearly shows how all team members contribute to the core section(s)
  • Clearly identify all necessary checking tasks in your Work Plan (including checking that it meets its established purpose and scope, that the document is internally consistent between sections/subsections, as well as checking content, clarity, accuracy and relevance of all sections/subsections), and ensure that all team members are equally engaged in checking activities. Every section must be checked by another team member before it is incorporated into the draft document and this checking activity must be shown in your Work Plan
  • The team leader for this SOW must sign that all checking activities have been completed in accordance with the Work Plan
  • Upload the work plan onto your group work space

   

Task 3 – Identify Relevant System Safety (Design) Regulations

• • There are various regulations in Australia and internationally that apply to the safe design of technologies used in the ADAT solution need to be evaluated for their applicability.

   

Task 4 – Prepare Draft of the System Safety Plan

• As a team, work together to prepare the core section of the document
• Prepare other sections in accordance with your work plan
• Record actual completion dates for each task so that the schedule performance of each team member can be assessed

Task 5 – Review and Amend the Document

• Systematically review the entire document to ensure that each section is complete and meets the intent of the template, and that the individual sections are fully coherent with all other sections
• Ensure that the document is fully complete and professional in appearance
• Ensure that the document revision history is representative of its development

Task 6 – Evaluate Team Task Performance

• Record actual dates/times of completion of tasks against the scheduled dates/times that were specified in the agreed Work Plan
• Record the actual performance of each team member in terms of: schedule, quality (fitness for purpose of submitted material), and overall performance (not assessed).

2.0 System Safety Administration

2.1. Organizational Structure Overview

2.2 System Safety Engineering

Safety engineer is amongst the most important person in the manufacturing industry. A safety engineer must be well experienced and should have common knowledge with enough training. A safety engineer must be able to relate with the immediate environment in order to anticipate and identify any hazardous conditions within the work environment. The engineer is also responsible for developing a control system, procedures, designs and methods to prevent hazardous conditions within the work environment. Besides that the engineer must be able to implement and administer all the control programs within the system effectively. That is best done through measurement, audit and evaluation of the effectiveness of the control systems and programs designed by the safety engineer. Due to the nature of the work it is important that the engineer design future safety requirements and plans based on real time experience. Advanced driver assist technology requires a safety engineer with good personality and is able to sell their failures to other practitioners for further safety development. For that reason, the safety engineer must be willing and able to work closely with the research and development team in order to sustain safety features.

It must also be noted at this case that the responsibilities and duties of a safety engineer may be in multiple cases and must be shared amongst the rest of the engineering team. That is because safety is a collective responsibility that begins with an individual. However, the safety engineer must ensure that they adhere to the qualities and work definitions to avoid transfer or contracting of responsibilities. For that reason, the Primary duty of care as prescribe in section 19 of the Act requires that the safety engineer practices reasonable care to workers engaged in the nearby environment as well as workers whose activities may be directly or indirectly influenced by the work of a safety engineer (PEM 050 HBK System Safety).

Under the same act the safety engineer has responsibilities of ensuring that the working environment is free from risks and hazards such as health and safe access. The engineer is also responsible for ensuring that the plant and the entire engineering environment is safe and is not posing any danger to the workers and the environment. The safety engineer must also be able to ensure that while they are handling chemicals, transporting them, storing substances that may be toxic must be done with outmost care. The welfare of workers at work is also the responsibility of the safety engineer especially through the washrooms and other places like lockers and dining areas.

2.3 System Safety Process

The Advanced Driver Assist Technology is a sophisticated software that requires proper designing and testing before it is established and rolled out. The general safety management process requires proper planning. That is then followed by identification of the hazard and that is mostly done with real time experience. The next thing that follows is the analysis of the hazard and then assessment before a decision is reached regarding the risk. It is always advisable that at the beginning of the designing activity that risk and hazards be eliminated. However, it is has been noticed that the hazard cannot be minimized it is necessary that the risk is reduced to an acceptable level. In most cases the advanced driver assist technology will come with hazards that cannot be eliminated completely and hence there will be the need to incorporate other safety features and designs (DES 050 TPL System Safety Plan). That will need to come with the warning devices in order to alert the user of the impending danger. That helps to reduce the danger or hazard. The warning signals could be lights at the dashboard of a car. That will help assist the driver or the car operator to notice any impeding danger and check on it before any accident occurs. At this point it is therefore very important to engage the personnel on training and procedures necessary to correct or reduce the possibility of hazards and accidents depending on the level of the hazard.

3.0 Approach to Safety

3.1 Corporate Safety Policy

The corporate safety policy of the firm is aimed at ensuring that there is zero harm as a principle that is guiding the operations of the business. The zero harm will ensure that individuals, group values, attitudes, perceptions and competences patterns and behavior is demonstrated towards showing zero harm. The other corporate safety policy is embedded on the safety culture. The organization aiming at ensuring that there is positive safety culture which is shared amongst the community with individuals committing and accounting for safety within the organization. Safety corporate policy is also attached to the customer satisfaction. The company aims at ensuring that the consumers are satisfied with the products provided. For that reason the organization uses an integrated management system which helps in supporting customer satisfaction across all the stages of production. Factors like reliability, performance, compliance, delivery and quality have been factored in addition to environmental conservation (COR 050 HBK Work Health and Safety).

3.2 Safety Legislation and Standards

The Work Health and Safety Act is a safety legislation that must be adhered while establishing the advanced driver assist technology for the motor vehicles. That is because the vehicles will need to detect through radar and Google Map and also the drones to identify possibility of a hazard. In addition, the vehicles are using roads which are also used by other road users and that may pose danger to the other road users. For that reason, it is necessary to work with the Work Health and Safety Management plan that adheres to the rules and safety plan. They include;

• Provision of automotive lifecycle that supports the tailoring of the necessary instruction during the life cycle phrases which include decommissioning, services, production, development, and management (ISO 26262)
• Provision of an automated and specific risk based approach that helps in classifying the risks. That ensures that there is proper coordination between the drivers and other road users in terms of alert such as road signs and signals (Automotive Safety Integrity Levels ASILs).
• To develop a control system that is part of an overall safety relating Equipment Under Control which helps in correct functioning of the E/E/PE safety systems mainly aimed at reduction for external risks. This will other road users to develop a harmonious safe roads and environment in general by promoting information and technology about the advanced driver assisted technology vehicles (IEC 61508)
• To adhere to the principle of ALARA which states that the residual risk should be that that is very low reasonably achievable. That will also ensure that the vehicles are fitted with emergency kits for safety and health of the drivers passengers and the third parties (ALARA)
• Ensure compliance and enforcement measures to ensure safety and health standards are maintained (WorkSafe SA Work Health and Safety Regulations)

3.3 System Safety Precedence

The order of precedence requires that the advanced assisted driver technology vehicles be designed in such a way that the risk of hazard is eliminated at an early stage. It is also advisable that if the risk cannot be reduced to the acceptable levels of the management authority then other safety devices be incorporated. Since it is difficult to fully eliminate hazards on the road due to possibilities of instant braking due to emergencies and hitting of obstructions on the road selection and designing of safety devices like signal is paramount according to the standards of the management authority. The features in this case will be automatic and the functions of the system will be applicable through the computer box of the motor vehicle. The next precedence level will be the provision of the warning devices. Sensors in the rear and front of the car will be used as warning devices. The information will be relayed in the notice board of the car and the driver can either engage automatic driving or engage manual driving of the car depending on the position. That could be well applied if the vehicle is maneuvering a sharp corner, in a jam, or during the parking. Upon the completion of the testing the next thing will be to develop the procedure of training. Since it is not practical to reduce any impeding danger on the road there is need to train the personnel on how to reduce the hazard. The training should be done depending on the category of the hazard to minimize the risk (PEM 050 HBK System Safety).