Practical SAFETY INSTRUMENTATION & EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN SYSTEMS for Process Industries using IEC 61511 and IEC 61508

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

What your company should be doing to manage safety control projects in accordance with the international standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
The meaning and tasks of: "The Safety Life Cycle"
How HAZOPS are done and how they are used to define safety functions
Understand Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) and to set target values using the methods described in IEC 61511
How to identify what kind of instruments and PLCs must be used in safety controls
How networks can be safely used for protection systems
How to design safety systems to meet SIL targets and avoid spurious trips
How to calculate SIS failure rates and verify SIL performance
To identify where your safety instrumentation practices may need upgrading

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Project Engineers and Project Managers
Instrument/Electrical Engineers and Technicians
Control Systems Engineers
Chemical or Energy Process Engineers
Maintenance Supervisors
Instrument Suppliers Technical Staff
Automation/Machinery Design Engineers

THE WORKSHOP

For project managers and engineers involved with hazardous processes or high energy plants, this two day workshop focuses on the management, planning and execution of automatic safety systems in accordance with IEC 61511, the widely accepted international standard for functional safety in the process industries. IEC 61511 has been recognised by safety authorities in Europe, the USA and in Australia as representing the best practices available for the design and management of automatic safety systems. It combines wellestablished safety design principles with the special techniques required when using programmable devices such as transmitters and PLCs in safety related applications. Regulating authorities do not consider safety shutdown systems to be acceptable unless they have suitable life cycle management systems supported by competent staff.

This workshop provides the essential grounding in the safety management principles and technical requirements needed to achieve conformity and competency in safety systems. It is designed to ensure that both managers and engineering staff understand the key issues and are trained in the fundamentals of safety system practices. This workshop is structured into two major parts to ensure that both managers and engineering staff are trained in the fundamentals of safety system practices. The first section is designed to introduce managers as well as specialist engineers to the tasks involved in managing and implementing safety control systems. The second section is allocated for training of engineers and technicians in the specification and delivery of safety control systems.

Section 1 A wide-ranging overview of the subject

Risk management principles applied to
protection systems
An introduction to IEC 61508 and 61511
Principles and stages of the safety life cycle
The basics of an SIS and the meaning of Safety
Integrity Levels (SILs)
The importance of setting SIL targets and how
this is done
How to design the SIS to meet SIL targets
Why regular PLCs are not suitable for safety
duties
Qualifying instruments for safety duties
How to reduce spurious trips
Essentials of maintenance and proof testing
Planning for compliance with IEC 61511

Section 2 Selected detail topics

Role of HAZOP studies and hazard analysis
Understanding SILs and their impact on capital
and operating costs
SIL determination methods presented in IEC 61511 with practical exercises
Principles of safety PLCs and the types available
Planning and implementing the application software
Selecting instruments for SIS. The meaning of safety-certified instruments
Principles of fault tolerance and voting architectures such as 1oo2 and 2oo3
Using smart positioners to improve testing performance
Reliability analysis and sources of failure rate data
The benefits of diagnostic systems in reducing test frequencies
Installation, testing and modification of the SIS
Documentation and software tools

PRACTICAL SESSIONS

There are 12 practical exercise sessions availableto give you the hands-on experience with subjectsfrom hazard studies through to SIL determinationand reliability calculations.

Note: To gain full value from this workshop, please bring your laptop/notebook computer