Overview

A Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) reduces the likelihood of a specific hazard occurring. IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 describe requirements for the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of these systems.

In this webinar, real world examples of human factors shall be presented under a number of major design aspects that should be considered when installing any Safety Instrumented Function; SIF effectiveness, SIF integrity, SIF independence/Common Cause Failure, SIF testing and auditability, actions to be taken on SIF activation and SIF spurious trip rates.

This webinar is aimed at recent chemical engineering graduates, project engineers, project managers, process and instrumentation engineers involved in the design, build, commissioning, operation and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Functions.

This webinar is supported by Engineers Ireland, Chemical and Process Engineering Division.

Speaker

Jonathan Thompson, Senior Process Safety Engineer, MSD

Jonathan has 15 years experience in the identification, specification, design, commissioning, operation, testing and maintenance of safety instrumented systems at COMAH regulated sites in the pharmaceutical industry.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the All Ireland Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend, but if you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand then you will need to be a member of the All Ireland Members Group.