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Functional Safety Certification Course - Functional Safety for SIS Professionals and Engineers

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Risknowlogy offers a TUV certified functional safety training course for safety instrumented systems professionals and engineers.

The course focuses on functional safety aspects for the process, oil & gas, and chemical industries according to IEC 61508 / 61511.

Course objectives:

The main objective of the course is to give engineers involved in safety instrumented systems the opportunity to learn about functional safety, current applicable safety standards and their requirements. A second objective is to give anybody attending the course the opportunity to certify their functional safety knowledge through an exam. Certification takes place in cooperation with TUV SUD.

Course information:

Course dates: See our public schedule, in-house training available upon request
Course exam date: One day after the course
Course material language: English, German, Spanish
Course instructor language: English, Dutch, German, Spanish
Course exam: English, German, Spanish
Duration: 3 days + 4 hours exam
Time: 9:00 - 16:00
Price: Per person 1750 EUR + 250 EUR Certification and Exam

Who should attend:

The training course is meant for those individuals involved in functional safety in the oil & gas, chemical, and processing industries, for example:

  • Control engineers
  • Safety engineers
  • Managers of engineering departments
  • Sales representatives for safety, products, systems and services
  • Sales engineers and managers
  • Marketing specialists
  • Anybody who wants to get their functional safety knowledge certified

Why should you attend?

The functional safety standards require that anybody involved in safety lifecycle activities shall be competent to carry out the activates for which they are accountable. Use this course, examination and certification to prove to your clients, peers and management that you are competent in the field of functional safety. When you pass the examination you get your functional safety knowledge certified and can use the certificate to demonstrate your competency.

Prerequisites:

The training course is a review course only. This means that anybody taking the course should already work in the safety industry and have general knowledge about functional safety, IEC 61508 and other functional safety standards. To take the exam and qualify for the certification eligibility requirements have been set:

  • 6 years experience in the applicable industry
  • Education gives credits:
    • Bachelor degree deduct 2 years
    • Masters degree deduct 3 years
    • Ph.D. degree deduct 4 years
  • Two references
  • Follow a training course and successfully pass the associated exam

It is recommended to first follow applicable courses in the professional program, e.g.:

About the exam:

The course is a complete overview course which means that we explain the concepts of functional safety without going into detail for each topic addressed. The course is for everybody involved in any part of the lifecycle of safety instrumented systems. Everybody involved in functional safety will need to know about topics like functional safety management, lifecycle, risk analysis, reliability calculations, etc. But it is not expected that everybody becomes an expert on these topics. Therefore the questions of the exam will be of a nature that anybody should be able to answer them. What you should not expect is questions that ask you to perform a SIL calculation, to perform a detailed HAZOP study. Any question asked can be answered by understanding the fundamental concepts of functional safety. With good reasoning it will be possible for anybody to get to the right answer. Calculators and other tools are not required during the exam. During the course sample questions will be presented and discussed.

You will be able to:

  • Communicate the basics of functional safety to your colleagues, management and peers in industry
  • Apply functional safety management
  • Differentiate between safety functions and control functions
  • Perform hazard and risk analysis
  • Determine the SIL with risk graph and matrix methodology
  • Verify and validate safety instrumented systems
  • Understand the basic requirements of the functional safety standards
  • Create basic designs of safety instrumented systems taking into account architectural constraints
  • Understand the effect of redundancy, diagnostics, proof test intervals, hardware fault tolerance on the SIL
  • Use and apply third party reports, certification and proven in use of devices

What you will cover:

  • Functional safety management:
    • Life cycle concept, documentation requirements, verification, validation, assessments and audits, modifications
  • Hazard & Risk Analysis:
    • Hazard identification, hazard analysis, risk reduction, safety function definition using FTA, HAZOP, LOPA, Risk matrix, risk graph
  • Planning the safety system:
    • Planning for end users, integrators, and realization of safety systems, safety plan, verification plan, validation plan, safety requirement specification, requirements for suppliers, FAT, SAT
  • Hardware design:
    • Hardware lifecycle, energize vs de-energize, low demand, high demand, demand mode, continuous mode, redundancy, diversity, voting, hardware fault tolerance, safe failure fraction, type A/B, architectural constraints, proof testing, diagnostic tests, measures to avoid and control failures
  • Hardware reliability:
    • Reliability modeling, FMEDA, block diagrams, FTA, Markov, failure data, PFD, PFS, SIL, STL
  • Software design:
    • Software lifecycle, embedded software, application software, utility software, fixed programming languages, limited variability languages, full variability languages, software architecture, V-model, measures to avoid failures
  • Operation and maintenance:
    • Installation and commissioning, safety validation, operation, maintenance and repair, modification and retrofit, maintenance override

What you will get:

  • The course material
  • White papers on functional safety topics
  • Certificate of Attendance
  • TÜV certificate upon successful completion of the exam, the permission to use the logo on your business card, and a listing on the TÜV Süd website

Student exercises:

Via 13 case studies the attendance will immediately put the learned theory into practice

Course contents

  • Introduction to functional safety
    • What is safety?
      • Overview of lawslegal requirements
      • What is functional safety?
      • Layers of protection
      • Safety integrity level
      • Problems with safety systems
      • Safety system failures
      • Functional Safety Standards
    • The basics of functional safety
      • Lifecycle concept
      • Functional safety management
      • Documentation
      • Verification & validation
      • Modifications
      • Functional safety assessment
    • Hazard & Risk Analysis
      • How much safety is enough?
      • Risky Business
      • Risk Analysis Techniques
      • HAZOP
      • LOPA
      • FMEA
      • FTA
      • ETA
      • Risk matrix
      • Risk Graph
      • Safety Functions
    • Planning the safety system
      • Planning for end users (integrators)
      • Realization safety system
      • Three important documents
      • Requirements for suppliers
    • Hardware design
      • Hardware lifecycle
      • Hardware fault tolerance
      • Safe failure fraction
      • Type A, B
      • Failure mode and effect analysis
      • Markov modeling
      • Failure Data
    • Software design
      • Software lifecycle
      • Safe software
      • Software architecture
      • V-model
      • Measures to avoid failures
      • Software tools
    • Certification and Proven In Use
      • How to use certification
      • How to apply proven in use
    • Using The Safety System
      • Installation and commissioning
      • Validation
      • Operation, maintenance and repair
      • Modification and retrofit

List of reference:

Use the following references as interesting reading material:
Standards & Technical Reports:

  • IEC 61508 - Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems
  • IEC 61511 (ISA S84.01) - Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector
  • ISA TR84.00.02 - Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Evaluation Techniques Package

Journals:

Books:

  • Functional Safety - A Straightforward Guide to Applying IEC 61508 and Related Standards, ISBN 0-7506-6269-7
  • Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown System ISBN: 0750658045
  • Basic Guide to System Safety, ISBN: 0-471-28519-6
  • System Safety: HAZOP and Software HAZOP, ISBN: 0-471-98280-6
  • Risk Assessment and Risk Management for the Chemical Process Industry, ISBN: 0-471-28882-9
  • Safety Instrumented Systems Verification ? Practical Probabilistic Calculations, ISBN 1-55617-909-X
  • Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification, ISBN 1-55617-956-1
  • Control System Safety Evaluation and Reliability, ISBN 1-55617-636-8
  • Safety Integrity Level Selection -- Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis, ISBN 1-55617-777-1

Papers:

  • Introduction To Diagnostic Systems Of Programmeble Electronic Safety Systems, M.J.M. Houtermans, D.M. Karydas , W. Velten-Philipp, Risknowlogy, 2005
  • The Effect of Diagnostic and Periodic Testing on the Reliability of Safety Systems, W. Velten-Philipp, M.J.M. Houtermans, 1st international safety symposium USA, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 14-15, 2005
  • Risk Reduction Through Partial Stroke Testing, J.L. Rouvroye , D.M. Karydas, M.J.M. Houtermans, PSAM V, Berlin, Germany, 2004
  • Functional Safety Management Explained, M.J.M. Houtermans, Th. Huber, W. Velten-Philipp, ISA EXPO 2003, Houston, USA
  • IEC 61508: An Introduction To The Safety Standards For End-Users, M.J.M. Houtermans, SISIS 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • IEC 61508 and Management of Functional Safety, S. Aschenbrenner, M.J.M. Houtermans, INTECH 2000, Instrument Society of America, New Orleans, August 2000
  • Influence of Design Parameters on the performance of safety-related systems, M.J.M. Houtermans, J.L. Rouvroye, International Conference on Safety, IRRST, Montreal, Canada, October 1999
  • A Practical Approach for the Selection of Programmable Electronic Systems used for Safety Functions in the Process Industry, D.M. Karydas, M.J.M. Houtermans, International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, Barcelona, Spain, May, 1998.

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What others have to say:

"The most important issues of the standards are resumed in an excellent way. Very didactic course"

Pedro Cabrio - Total

"It did not concentrate on the mathematics behind reliability as other IEC 61508 courses I have attended"

Rob Parshby - ABB

"Functional Safety is not the easiest subject to teach and reading the published Standards can be very heavy going but Michel manages to make the subject both interesting and enjoyable."

Ian Baines - Eurotherm

"Very good, learnt a lot. Instructor clearly very experienced and knowledgeable in subject, speaks with authority"

Hemant Patel - ABB

"Best I have had"

Bald Peters - Egemin

"Very good training with a very skilled, experienced trainer"

Ferdi van den Brule - HIMA