Introduction to IEC 61511

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"5.2.2. Persons, departments or organizations involved in safety life-cycle activities shall be competent to carry out the activities for which they are accountable."

IEC 61511 - Part 1

About the course

This course introduces the fundamental and basic principles of safety instrumented system (SIS) design according to IEC 61511. This course is for managers and engineers who want to understand the important aspects of SIS design and selection of safety products, systems and the design of applications.

This course is ideal for engineers and managers that are new to functional safety and IEC 61511. The course is a good preparation for the Risknowlogy Functional Safety Certification Courses (FSCC).

Length: One day
Course hours: 9:00 - 17:00
Price: Price available upon request
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You will be able to:

• Communicate with safety engineers and experts in the field that talk the specialized and technical safety language
• Apply the lifecycle concept to your organization
• Communicate the functional safety management principles too your peers and management
• Manage hazard and risk analysis and apply the principles to your end-users
• Design safety instrumented systems architectures
• Calculate the probability of failure on demand of the safety function
• Select the right safety equipment
• Read product certificates and third party approval reports

You will cover:

• What functional safety means
• The link between the different functional safety standards
• Why the design of safety systems needs special attention
• Management of functional safety for SIS
• Hazard and risk analysis concepts
• Hazards and risk analysis techniques like HAZOP, Fault Tree, Event Tree, LOPA
• Fundamental hardware design concepts
• Architectural constraints and hardware fault tolerance
• The different between diagnostic tests, periodic proof tests
• Reliability analysis and reliability data
• Application software design
• And more

Class room activities:

• Video on safety accident
• Perform a hazard analysis
• Design safety system

What you will get:

• Handouts of the course material
• Case studies and class room exersises
• White papers on the practical implementation of IEC 61511
• Certificate of Attendance

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