SIL & The Process Safety Lifecycle

Hazard Analysis - HAZOPs

• HAZOPs - their current role in safety systems
• Key outputs required from HAZOPs
• Techniques for a successful HAZOP

Safety Requirements Specification - LOPA

• Layer of protection analysis(LOPA) explanation
• Using HAZOP results
• Arriving at Safety Requirements Specification(SRS)
• Define the required SIL Level

Safety System Realisation

• Safety Requirements Specification to actual design
• Safety System architectures
• Detailed design – Hardware & Software

Safety System Validation

• Design stage validation
• Installation validation techniques
• Maintenance and management

Workshop and Case Studies

• Tank Farm Installation - SIL 2 application
• Buncefield Accident - What can we learn?
• Reactor Safety Interlocks
• Nitrogen purging - SIS
• Agitator speed monitoring

This professional Training Course is most suited to:

• Process Engineers
• Chemical Engineers
• Instrument/Electrical Engineers
• Production Managers
• EHS Managers
• Project Engineers/Managers

To gain an understanding of:

•  Undertaking a project using the Process Safety Lifecycle approach
• The application of IEC 61508 & IEC 61511 Safety Standards
• The process of determining the required safety integrity levels (SIL)
• Risk acceptability, targets & calibration
• The risk graphs for SIL determination & LOPA
• SIS architectural expectations
• The process of designing the safety integrity levels required of the safety control system
• The concept of instrument failures & reliability
• SIS design to meet integrity targets
• How to validate the achieved SIL
• An overview of quality assurance, validation, competence, functional safety assessments,process safety implications for operations and maintenance of SIS