Course Description
Modern railway safety depends on software — interlockings, ATP, CBTC, train control — and EN 50716 is the standard governing how that software must be developed, verified and assured. It replaces and consolidates the previous EN 50128/50657 framework, and compliance is mandatory for safety-critical rail software.
This course develops a working understanding of EN 50716 and safety-critical software development for railways. Participants learn software safety integrity levels, the development lifecycle, verification and validation, tool qualification, and the documentation and assurance evidence required to demonstrate compliance.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the role of safety-critical software in railways
- Understand EN 50716 and its relationship to EN 5012x
- Apply software safety integrity levels (SIL)
- Understand the software development lifecycle
- Apply verification and validation requirements
- Understand tool qualification
- Manage software assurance documentation
- Demonstrate compliance and support the safety case
How the course is delivered
The course combines the EN 50716 framework with practical lifecycle and assurance examples from railway software projects. Participants work through SIL allocation, V&V planning and evidence requirements.
The programme focuses on demonstrating compliance and building the assurance evidence that underpins railway safety cases.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Software and systems engineers in rail
- Safety and assurance engineers
- Verification and validation staff
- Project engineers on signalling systems
- Anyone developing or assuring rail software
Daily programme
- Safety-critical software in railways
- The EN 5012x framework and EN 50716
- Software safety integrity levels
- Roles and independence
- Requirements and architecture
- Design and implementation
- Traceability
- Configuration management
- Verification methods
- Testing strategies
- Validation
- Tool qualification
- Assurance documentation
- The software safety case
- Assessment and approval
- Workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
