Safety Life Cycle (SLC)

Safety Life Cycle (SLC) is the process of safety specification and support throughout the development and operational phases of a software application while using in a safety-related system. It comprises a set of best engineering practices that promote safe operation and full compliance with all relevant standards.

SLC contains different stages, including the inception and specifications of safety requirements, covering design and development of safety features in a safety-critical system, and the decommissioning of the system.

Benefits of SLC:

• Provides an optimal Safety Instrumented System (SIS) design that matches risk reduction with process risk while maintaining internal design consistency.
• Helps SIS designers build safer systems.
• Allows creating more cost-effective systems.