This one day functional safety course provides an overview of IEC 61511 functional safety. The course will cover the introduction of Safety Instrumented Systems, The Safety Lifecycle, Risk Analysis, Safety Realization, Operations, Functional Safety Management and Basic Reliability concepts.
Course Content
Section 1: Introduction to Safety Instrumented Systems
- SIS Evolution
- The Standards
- SIS Definitions
- Safety Instrumented Functions
- SIS Equipment
Section 2: The Safety Lifecycle - The Big Picture
- Accidents involving control / SIS
- Safety Lifecycle Objectives
- IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 (ISA 84.01) versions of the Safety Lifecycle
Section 3: Risk Analysis
- Risk Tolerance
- Hazard & Risk Analysis
- Consequence & Likelihood
- LOPA
- SIL Selection
- Safety Requirements
Specification
Section 4: Safety Realization
- Safety Requirements Specification
- Equipment/Technology selection
- Prior Use vs. IEC 61508 certification
- Conceptual Hardware Design
- Test Philosophy
- SIL verification
Section 5: Operations Phase
- Validation
- Installation
- Commissioning
- Maintenance Planning
- Proof Testing
- Modification and De-Commissioning
Section 6: Functional Safety Management
- Functional Safety Management Plan
- Roles and Responsibility
- Personnel Competency
- Documentation Objectives
- Functional Safety Assessment
Terminology & Basic Reliability Concepts
- Random & Systematic Failures
- Modes of Operation
- Failure Rates
- Failure Modes
- Common Cause
- Diagnostics
- Basic Architectures
- Software Types