Protection systems have been around for a long time, going back to having a canary in the mine, and throughout the Industrial Revolution; so they are not a new thing. Various stakeholders were involved in business enterprises: owners, suppliers, consumers, community members, and workers. Usually the business owners held…
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Entries tagged with: Functional Safety Management
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Wednesday, July 02, 2014
- Certification
How Good Is Your Functional Safety Management?
Those operating in the process world should be familiar with the concept of Functional Safety Management (FSM) and the need to have well defined processes and procedures in place. Otherwise, how else will they be able to ensure that their Safety Instrumented System (SIS) and plant…
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Wednesday, March 05, 2014
- Certification
The Problem with the Expert
I recall the first time I was called an “expert.” I thought that sounded nice. I spotted a magazine article on safety and thought “I do not have to read that as I am an expert.” I quickly recovered. The real problem with being called an expert is that…
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Wednesday, May 17, 2017
- Functional Safety
Why Is Functional Safety An Important Piece of Process Safety Management?
It’s interesting to note that with the release of the 2016 edition of IEC61511, there’s more emphasis being placed on the need for better functional safety management. Having taught many courses on Functional Safety over the past few years, I find that most of the…
- by Ted Stewart, CFSP, exidaCSP
- Tuesday, November 12, 2013
- Certification
You Have Been Endorsed
When current Certified Functional Safety Professionals and Experts (CFSP/CFSEs) come to us seeking further education, we commonly point them to the recently established CFSE Endorsement Program. However, we are often posed questions in return:
- What’s an Endorsement program?
- Is there a test involved?
- If…