Functional Safety in the Process Industry

Course Duration: 2 days

COURSE OVERVIEW

Functional safety in the process

Process safety is essential in the operation of major hazard facilities. This course provides engineers and managers with a compact, and yet comprehensive knowledge necessary to design, implement and operate Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) in compliance with the international safety standards IEC61508 and IEC61511. Mainly intended for experienced safety system practitioners, this course addresses all phases of the safety lifecycle, from hazard and risk assessment through design and implementation to ongoing operation and maintenance. The primary aim of the course is to equip the participants with a conceptual and practical understanding of the process safety based on the international standards and industry best practice.
This course is particularly recommended for HSE and risk engineers, instrumentation and control engineers, safety systems engineers, corporate safety managers, and plant maintenance engineers.

COURSE OUTLINE

This course covers the following topics:
•   Introduction to functional safety
•   Safety standards IEC 61508/ IEC 61511
•   HAZOP and Process hazard Identification
•   Risk assessment and ALARP
•   SIL determination and LOPA
•   Safety requirement specification
•   Reliability data and quantification of failure
•   Diagnostics and proof testing
•   SIS design and verification
•   Human interface and SIS security
•   SIS realization and validation
•   SIS operation and maintenance
•   Functional safety audit and assessment
•   Functional safety management

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Hamid Jahanian is a Senior Key Expert at Siemens Energy, Australia and a certified Functional Safety Expert by TÜV Rheinland. He has Master’s degree in Controls and has worked in the power industry for over 23 years. Hamid has records of innovations in functional safety, including two on SIS monitoring and SIF analysis, which were filed in the US Patent Office. He has published and presented several research papers in international journals and conferences. Hamid has developed the first certified functional safety management system in Siemens globally, and runs Functional Safety Engineering certification courses internationally. In the industry, he conducts Functional Safety Assessments and HAZOP and SIL workshops; and in research, he is currently focused on Failure Mode Reasoning - a new method he invented for analysing SIS Programs.

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