Every major process plant on earth operates safety instrumented systems that must perform on demand — sometimes after years of sitting dormant. The engineer who understands the IEC 61511 lifecycle, can conduct a LOPA, write an SRS, and verify a SIL calculation is the one who protects both the plant and the people working in it.
This course teaches functional safety the way it is practised on major hazard installations. It covers the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle, hazard and risk assessment, SIL determination and LOPA, the safety requirement specification, SIF design and SIL verification, and the operate, test, and management phases that follow.
The work is anchored in IEC 61511 — the process-sector functional safety standard — and its parent IEC 61508, with the LOPA methodology for SIL determination and the PFDavg calculation that proves a safety function meets its target.
