COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Safety Instrumented Function Conceptual. It covers the safety instrumented systems (SIS) and the importance of SIS in process industries; the difference between SIS and basic process control systems (BPCS); the safety lifecycle phases, safety instrumented function (SIF), safety integrity level (SIL) and risk reduction factor; the hazard identification methods, risk assessment and layers of protection analysis (LOPA); the basic concepts of redundancy and the types of redundant architectures; the levels and significance of SIL, SIL determination methods and SIL verification; and the failure modes of instrumentation, hardware fault tolerance and software considerations.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the key design principles of SIF and the common cause failures; the safety instrumented equipment, SIS logic solvers and field devices in SIF; testing and validating SIF and methods and frequency of testing; the proper documentation and testing and verification best practices for safe commissioning and planning; the execution of proof testing and periodic inspection; the functional safety management and competency in operation and maintenance; the change management, failure reporting and analysis; and the human factors in SIS, auditing and assessing SIS health and measuring and monitoring SIS performance.