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Functional Safety
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Cardiff
16 & 17 June 2015
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Harvey T. Dearden
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what You will learn:
• Walk away with a solid fundamental knowledge of IEC 61511 and IEC 61508
which you can apply immediately without wading through hundreds of pages
of standards documents
• Know how to set up functional safety management procedures to meet the
requirements and be prepared for independent assessments
• The ability to plan and integrate all stages of a safety system project
• An understanding of risk assessment and SIL determination approaches and
the potential pitfalls
• An understanding of ALL the requirements for compliance
• An understanding of implementation and realisation approaches
• An understanding of equipment selection and certification issues together
with ‘proven-in-use’ and ‘prior-use’ approaches
• How to demonstrate personnel competency in compliance with the standard.
• Avoid unwarranted difficulty and expense from inflated SIL targets, impractical
design proposals or wrongheaded management approaches
• Insight into these valuable topics from an independent, unbiased, company
that is not trying to sell you anything and with a significant track record in
presentation of effective training solutions
who should attend:
• Control systems engineers
• Chemical or energy process engineers
• Instrument/electrical engineers and technicians
• Instrument suppliers technical staff
• Maintenance supervisors
• Project engineers and project managers

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Harvey has over 35 years’ experience in the process industries, having
worked for end users, contractors, vendors and consultants, and is
known for his expertise in process control and protection and related
risk assessment and management concerns. Latterly he worked as site
engineering manager for a major chemical company in the UK and now
has an independent consulting practice.
Harvey combines these varying perspectives with a real passion for the engineering discipline
and is the author of ‘Professional Engineering Practice: Reflections on the Role of the
Professional Engineer’. He is known to many through his involvement with the Institution of
Measurement and Control and his numerous articles in the technical press.
An engaging speaker, Harvey strives not to simply convey information, but to establish real
understanding of lasting value to the audience. With his extensive experience and excellent
communication skills, you will walk away from this workshop with valuable know-how that you
can apply immediately to your work.
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For project managers and engineers involved with hazardous processes, this workshop focuses
on the management, planning and execution of protection systems in accordance with IEC
61508/61511, the international standards for process industry safety instrumented systems.
This IDC workshop is structured into two major parts to ensure that both managers and
engineering staff are trained in the fundamentals of safety system practices. The first part of the
workshop, approximately the first third, provides an overview of the critical issues involved in
managing and implementing safety systems.
Safety authorities are now expecting companies to work to established international standards
and often insist on compliance with them. For automatic safety systems the general standard IEC
61508 and the process industry version IEC 61511 describe principles for their planning,
management and implementation. There is an increasing demand for conformity assessment to
be carried out by independent bodies who will examine the abilities of a company to manage its
safety activities. In particular, safety systems are not considered to be acceptable unless they are
supported by suitable management systems with competent staff.
This training workshop provides the essential grounding in IEC 61508/61511 and the safety
management principles needed to develop conformity and competency in safety systems.
The workshop manual provided with this course covers the workshop content and provides details
beyond the scope of two days of training.

3. The fee for each workshop covers all materials
including workshop manual, lunches
and refreshments
for the Process Industries
the program
Day ONE
Overview of Safety Instrumented
Systems for Managers
Description of the role of safety instrumented
system as part of the overall risk reduction
measures that a company will typically install to
manage a hazardous process. An explanation of
the basic technical features of a safety system and
what tasks must be carried out to ensure that the
protection measures are properly defined and
implemented. Description, in non-technical terms,
of the key features of safety systems and their
relevance to the capital and operating costs.
Past failures of safety systems have very often
been attributed to human errors in their design and
implementation. Authorities responsible for
enforcement of safety have come to the realisation
that the management of all safety activities is
therefore as important as the actual equipment
used to carry out the safety functions. This is why
the standards define the management of safety life
cycle activities as one of the critical issues in
establishing compliance.
This content identifies the requirements for
management of safety life cycle activities and
discusses issues such as third party audits and
assessments, staff competency requirements and
conformity assessment schemes.
Introduction to IEC 61508/61511
A presentation of the background to functional
safety principles and an introduction to IEC 615108
and IEC 61511. An explanation of their joint
purpose and the split of responsibilities between
Vendors (where IEC 61508 is generally applicable)
and Users (where IEC 61511 predominates).
With this background in place, a description of the
safety lifecycle phases and explanation of the key
points relevant to each phase.
Principles of risk reduction and
safety allocation
Training in the principles of recognising layers of
protection and the allocation of risk reduction
measures to both instrumented, and non-
instrumented, protection systems. Exercises in risk
layer analysis.
Practical SIL determination methods
Training in the methods for SIL determination and
the pitfalls to be avoided.
Worked examples are presented for quantitative
and qualitative SIL determination and these are
followed by practical exercises to ensure
participants understand the possible pitfalls.
Practical SIS configurations for
both safety and availability targets
An explanation of SIS architectures (such as 1oo1
and 2oo3) and how the two performance objectives
of safety and avoidance of spurious trips can be
satisfied by the arrangement of redundant sensors,
logic solvers and actuators. An explanation of the
constraints on the SIL ratings that can be achieved
by various architectures. Exercises in architecture
selection.
Day TWO
Practical reliability analysis
methods and programs to IEC 61511
How to carry out simple reliability calculations to
evaluate the design of a safety function in terms of
its probability of failure on demand and how to
verify that the required SIL rating has been
achieved. Training in first principles using the
simplified reliability formulae in IEC 61508 Part 6.
Includes calculation exercises.
Practical selection of equipment
for safety duties
What to look for when selecting instruments for
safety deployment.
Practical system integration and
application software for safety
controllers
Review of key stages in the hardware and software
implementation activities. It will help participants
plan the engineering of hardware and in the
configuration of the application programs for
safety controllers.
Practical proof testing and
diagnostics
Training in practical methods for proof testing and
how auto-diagnostic methods can be applied to
field instruments.
Practical management approaches.
How to plan for the management challenges
associated with the safety life cycle.
Background: Why functional safety
is important for your organisation.
The international standards for functional safety
systems have far reaching impact on the way
automatic safety systems are managed and
installed in hazardous process plants. In essence,
the standards establish the operating company’s
guide to the management, planning and execution
of risk reduction measures using instrumentation
and control equipment.
Many process plants have the potential for
hazardous events such as explosions, fires or toxic
gas release. Sometimes a business faces a major
asset loss due to a malfunction of critical
equipment such as a cooling system or from
sudden disturbance to the process. In such cases
automatic safety shutdown systems are essential
and the company and its personnel must have a
high degree of confidence in the ability and
reliability of the safety system to do its job. Its is
also important that authorities and the public in
general are reassured that the safety systems are
of the highest quality and are being continually
maintained and kept in service in good working
order. Health and safety legislation in most
countries makes it compulsory for companies to
prove that they have implemented the best
reasonably practicable safety measures for the
protection of personnel and the environment
inside and outside of their plants
Safety authorities have recognised that having
technically sound equipment is not sufficient to provide
assurance that processes are adequately protected
against catastrophic events. The correct management of
all activities associated with protection measures is also
critical to their success and many fatal accidents have
been attributed to failure to manage safety activities. To
add to the concerns, safety engineers recognised that
there are increased complexities and risks associated
with the use of computers and programmable control
systems to perform the safety monitoring and trip
response tasks.
However, thanks to an industry wide effort across many
countries, consensus has been reached on a set of
safety engineering principles, including those involving
software and programmable devices. These are
embedded in the functional safety standards
IEC61508/61511.
Familiarity and, ultimately, compliance with both of
these standards will signify that a process company is
following the best available safety practices.
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