An Industry-Based Survey on Development and Integration of Safety Element out of Context

ISO 26262 introduced the concept of Safety Element out of Context (SEooC), a generic element which is developed to be used across many applications, hence, saving a lot of time, effort, and cost. The objective of this paper is to report about the industrial experience applying the SEooC approach. The knowledge about the good practice of this approach is limited regardless of its recommendation by ISO 26262. An industry-based survey was carried out, consisting of two parts: (i) description of the target group and challenges in functional safety and (ii) the SEooC approach.