
Explain functional safety and how a safety instrumented system prevents malfunctions from random, systematic, and common cause failures, while acknowledging perfect safety is unattainable and we strive for safety.
Identify three major accident drivers in functional safety for safety instrumented systems. They are human failures from training gaps, random failures (such as power loss), and equipment failures.
Explore hazard analysis and hazard and operability analysis, distinguishing hazard, hazardous events, and hazard likelihood. Learn how probability governs whether a hazard leads to harm.
Identify hazards to understand risk, analyze consequences and probabilities, and reduce risk with safeguards; connect safety functions to hazards using techniques like checklist analysis, what-if analysis, and fault tree analysis.
We reduce risk from hazardous events to tolerable levels using layers of protection, including a safety instrumented system, and define achieved risk reduction as the move to residual risk.
Analyze undesired system states with fault tree analysis using Boolean logic to identify failure causes, visualize weaknesses with gates and symbols, and support risk reduction decisions.
Learn event tree analysis (ETA) as a hazard and risk reduction technique, tracing initiating events, safety barriers, and outcomes to judge system acceptability and guide improvements.
Explore how safety instrumented functions integrate sensor, logic, and actuator subsystems, classify type a and type b failures, and evaluate safe failure fraction and hardware fault tolerance for safety designs.
Transforms user requirements into design and code guided by the SRS, producing safe software that preserves safety functions under faults and follows functional safety standards and testing.
Welcome to this online course on Functional Safety for Safety Instrumented Systems. You will understand and learn about the topics which you will not find anywhere in the domain of Functional Safety.
The course introduces you to Safety Instrumented Systems SIS, Alarm Systems, Interlocks, Risks management, SIL calculation, their functions and how they are used in a system, in detail.
This course also includes in-depth study of:
Layers of Protection Analysis
Reliability Block Diagrams
Failure Mode & Effects Analysis
Fault Tree Analysis
Markov Analysis
Event Tree Analysis
Hazard & Operability Analysis
The knowledge gained in this course will help you to understand all process Safety loops and systems.
Finally, included in the course are access to numerous downloadable resources, real industrial examples of process control and the keys to interpret them in high quality video lectures. You will be able to practice and become even more proficient with these bonus items that you will find throughout the course.
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Who this course is for:
All personnel involved in calculation, design, selection, manufacturing, safety, quality and maintenance of systems and equipment in industrial processes
Plant Operators and engineers in the Process and Power Plant Industries as well as Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Process control engineers & technicians
Instrumentation engineers & technicians
Design engineers & technicians
Piping engineers & technicians
Maintenance engineers & technicians
Instructional designers and those involved in writing manuals and operational procedures
Security, Safety and Environment Officers (SSHE)
Anyone else with an interest in how Safety Systems should be designed, maintained and used.