Functional Safety Matters - the eFunctionalSafety blog
Why do people attend training courses, and what can online eLearning provide for your competence management system that a traditional classroom course cannot?
Is 100% functional safety compliance possible?
Achieving complete compliance with "risk-based" functional safety standards like IEC 61511 is a great objective to have, but is it, in fact, possible?
Safety instrumented systems and security standards
If you are responsible for a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) with Safety Integrity Level (SIL) rated functions, then you might be wondering where to start with cybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS).
10 steps to duty holder SIL conformance
Perhaps you have installed safety systems which date from the 1990's or early turn of this century. If so, you might be wondering whether you need to follow IEC 61511 edition 2 for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) conformance?
Get a step-change in safety culture from hybrid training
How do you get valued staff and contractors to engage with Process Safety, Functional Safety and similar "tricky" subjects? Send[...]
We don’t need no education
The headline, extracted from a popular song lyric*, uses the double-negative "don't need no", quite intentionally - to help emphasize[...]
How to assess IACS cyber vulnerability using a Security CHAZOP
The recently updated process sector safety instrumented system (SIS) standard IEC 61511 now requires that a "security risk assessment is[...]
Killer tools for improving safety and reducing project cost
Read on to see the software buyer's guide table...a comparison of 4 cloud-based software solutions. This blog will will look[...]
How to avoid making mistakes with management of safety projects
Without effective functional safety assessment and audit, you may never know whether your safety system will perform when it is[...]
Process SIS Operations Blog #3
For the third blog of this series, the focus is on proof testing. This article will look at what proof testing[...]
Key safety instrumented system operations advice
Operation and maintenance procedures for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) will vary from company to company. However, there are some specific[...]
10 things to know about SIS operations
How do you ensure a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) will maintain its original design integrity for a lifetime of 15+[...]
Process SIS standards are changing – learn more
The process sector standard IEC 61511 is aimed at applications where instrumented systems are used for risk reduction in the[...]
5 reasons you should assess functional safety during operation
Hazardous process industry sites must carry out periodic functional safety assessment (FSA) of safety instrumented systems. But why?Many hazardous process[...]
Since launching our IChemE accredited online Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) e-Learning course in 2016, we have now reached customers as far[...]
No such thing as a free lunch?
My Father used to say this a lot. "There's no such thing as a free lunch". I never got the[...]
Costly competence
The headline poses a tricky question. Process accident history is awash with many examples of apparent incompetence involving safety instrumented[...]
What is LoPA?
LoPA -Layer of Protection AnalysisProcess facilities should be designed as far as possible to be inherently safe. Inherent safety involves[...]
Is functional safety assessment required in operation?
Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) has been a requirement in IEC 61511 - Safety Instrumented Systems for the process industry sector,[...]