Overview

Functional safety refers to the life cycle that can be applied to safety instrumented systems. This life cycle begins at the initial safety assessment of any process and ends with instrument decommissioning. Process engineers will gain an understanding of how they can consider functional safety when they attend safety assessments and when, for example, they partake in specification of safety instrumented systems.

Speaker

David Sparkes, Technical Director, Method Process Safety Ltd

David is the Technical Director of Method Process Safety Ltd. He is an experienced process safety engineer, registered as an IChemE professional process safety engineer and TÜV Functional Safety Engineer. After graduating from Newcastle University, David worked on capital projects and control systems design, until a project to rebuild a chemical plant after an incident led him to pursue a career in process safety.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed.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

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