The invention provides a safe torque turn-off function circuit and a control method. The function circuit comprises a first safe torque turn-off STO branch, a control element, a pre-driving element and a power device. Wherein a power supply pin of the pre-driving element is connected with the output end of the control element, and the output end of the pre-driving element is connected with the power device; the control element is used for acquiring the state of the first STO branch; under the condition that the state of the first STO branch is the off state, a first turn-off signal is generated, and the first turn-off signal is used for cutting off a power supply of the pre-driving element so as to turn off the power device. A switch in an existing circuit is replaced by a control element, no series switch is arranged on a bus, in this way, no extra loss is increased, no extra size is occupied, safe torque turn-off is achieved through the control element, the power supply current of the control element is far smaller than that of the switch, the circuit loss is greatly reduced, and the reliability of the circuit is improved. And the size of the control element is smaller than that of the switch, so that the product size is reduced.