A practical training course for engineers or designers

who require more detailed training in the concepts and

principles that underpin the IEC 61511 functional safety

standard and its use for calculating the Safety Integrity

Level of a proposed or existing safety instrumented

function.

 A two day training course

8th - 9th October 2014 - Leeds, Marriott Hotel

11th - 12th March 2015 - Manchester

 Achieved SIL

 ABB Consulting Events

 

 Achieved Safety Integrity Level

Process Industries rely upon the performance of

Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) to protect

and maintain operating assets. Engineers

and designers are required to calculate the

probability of failure of these SIFs to be able to

express this performance as a Safety Integrity

Level (SIL).

 ABB Consult ing has created this two day course

for engineers or designers who require more

detailed training in the concepts and principles

that underpin the IEC 61511 functional safety

standard and its use for calculating the Safety

Integrity Level of a proposed or existing safety

instrumented function.

What the course will cover 

 The training course is structured around

instruction and workshops that initially explain

the underlying concepts of SIL calculation

demonstrated on simple Safety Instrumented

Functions, then progress through more

complicated designs and techniques that are

required for higher Safety Integrity Levels.

Who will beneft and what will they gain?

 The course is a imed at engineers and

designers involved in calculating or verifying

the performance of new or existing safety

instrumented functions. The course has plenty

of workshops to enable delegates to practice

using the formulae on ever increasing complex

examples.

Following the course you wil l be able to:

 − Understand the concepts underpinning SIL

calculation

 − Identify what information is essential before

starting the SIL calculation

 −  Apply correct formulae for serial or parallel

instrument configurations

 − Derive instrument failure rates from commonly

available sources

 −  The benefi ts and disadvantages of

manufacturers certificates

 −  Appreciate the complexit ies of a ‘human in the

loop’

 − What checking and approval is needed for

different Safety Integrity Levels

 − Calculate the SIL

 

Duration: 2 days

Price:

£1185 + VAT

Course leader 

Paul Lucas is a principal safety consultant in

 ABB Consult ing and TuV approved functional

safety engineer with over 25 years experience

of real-time computing and safety in the

process chemical, oil & gas and pharmaceutical

sectors. Paul is part of a team deli vering ABB’s

training courses and seminars on the practical

implications for end users, system integrators

and instrument technicians in the use of the

IEC61511 functional safety standard.

 

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Four easy ways to book 

Send completed registration form to address below

Call Jackie Kendall on +44 (0)1642 372121

Fax your form to +44 (0)1642 372296 f.a.o. Training courses

 jack ie.kendal l@gb.abb.com

 All correspondence should be addressed to:

Freepost - RRGLSALUCCAJ, ABB Consulting, Billingham, TS23 4EB

 Agenda Day 1 - 09:30 to 17:00

Registration and coffee

Introduction

SIL as part of functional safety

 − Why do we need functional safety and safety instrumented systems?

 − Functional safety standards; IEC61511 and IEC61508

 − ‘Three Steps’ to SIL; SIL Determination, Achieved SIL, Operations and Maintenance

Setting the target SIL

 − Risk and risk reduction

 −  Reminder of hazard identification and SIL determination

Safety requirement specification

 −  Information to be specified to design group or external company

Designing a Safety Instrumented Function

 −  Safe and dangerous failures

 −   The relationship between instrumentation and SIL

 −  Use of basic calculations

 −  Humans and alarms as part of Safety Instrumented Functions

 −  Importance of dangerous failure rates for instrumentation

 −  Instrument data sources and instrument certificates

Summary and conclusions

Close

 Agenda Day 2 - 08:30 to 16:00

Review of Day 1

 Testing as part of the SIF Design

 −  High and low demand rate safety functions

 −   Time to test and errors introduced during testing

 −  Relationship between PFDavg, instrument failure rates and test intervals

 Advanced architectures (1oo2, 2oo3) and constraints

 −  Calculations

 −  Hardware fault tolerance

 −  Diagnostic coverage and safe failure fraction

 −  More on manufacturers certificates

 −  Systematic controls

 −  Common cause and common mode failures

 −  Sharing equipment between SIF and Control system

 −   Testing final elements and part ial testing

Installation and commissioning

 −   Validation, verificat ion, audits and functional safety assessment

Operate and Maintaining the Safety Instrumented Functions

 −  Proof testing requirements

 −  Overrides and bypasses

 −  Maintenance and modification

 −  Importance of recording and reviewing demands and test results

Review and feedback 

Close

 

8th - 9th October 2014 - Leeds, Marriott Hotel

11th - 12th March 2015 - Manchester

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