Resources for teams building safety-critical products
Job description templates, standards guides, a glossary, training and the company directory: everything CSA publishes to help you plan, staff and run a functional-safety program.
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Start with a template, then use the guides, glossary and training to run the program behind the hire.
Job description templates
Searchable, ready-to-adapt job descriptions for functional-safety roles, filtered by standard, industry, seniority and region. Word download on every page.
Browse templates →GuidesStandards guides
Plain-language guides to ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISO 10218, UL 4600 and the rest of the map, by industry.
Open →ReferenceTopic library
Focused session topics across standards, evidence types and lifecycle phases, each with the documents it produces.
Open →ReferenceGlossary
Definitions of SIL, PL, ASIL, HARA, SOTIF, FMEDA and the rest of the vocabulary, linked from every template.
Open →CoursesTraining
Standards courses and workshops, including the 4-day certification course, delivered on site or remotely.
Open →ProgramIn-Process Charter
Recognition for teams doing active functional-safety lifecycle work, with the evidence states explained.
Open →DirectoryAll Companies
Tracked robotics and autonomy companies: segment, funding, safety status, incidents and open safety roles.
Open →JobsFSTalent job board
Open functional-safety roles refreshed daily from company career sites, with a template for every posting.
Open the board →Job description template library
184 functional-safety job description templates (open and archived roles), each downloadable as a Word document. Metadata such as funding stage and company size comes from the company directory. Every filter combines with the others (any of the values picked inside a filter, all filters together); free text searches the title, metadata and template body.
How the metadata is derived: role family and seniority from the title; standards, tools, certifications, languages, work mode, employment type and clearance from the template text; stage, segment and company size from the company directory when the employer is listed there. Anything the text does not say is shown as Unknown. Data file: templates.json.
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