Health, Safety and Security

Functional Safety and Regulatory Compliance for Process Operations

A safety instrumented system is a promise that a specific hazard will be brought to a safe state a specific proportion of the time, and that promise is broken quietly by bypassed interlocks and untested trips long before anything happens. This course covers keeping it. Delegates work through hazard and risk assessment and arriving at a required integrity level from the consequence rather than from convention. The safety lifecycle follows, from specification through design, installation, validation and operation. Architecture, redundancy and how failure rate data supports a claimed integrity level are covered. Proof testing and the interval that keeps the claim true are addressed. Bypass and override management is covered directly, since that is where most degradation occurs. Management of change and functional safety assessment follow. The course closes on regulatory expectations and on demonstrating compliance to an inspector.