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Learn best practices for inspecting, testing and documenting a safety instrumented system. Explore applications for these practices in the field, including valves and simpler instruments.

Plant owners, operating staff & control systems specialists develop the credible performance requirement for the safety instrumented system.

ISA book on safety instrumented system design helps industrial automation professionals meet the requirements of international safety standards.

Electromechanical switches have their place in the modern plant, but a digital upgrade could pay off in many applications

This comprehensive book helps you prepare for exams for the ISA Certified Control Systems Technician credential or license as a Professional Engineer (PE).

According to IEC 61511-1, embedded software should follow software guidelines in IEC 61508-3. IEC 61511 and ANSI/ISA84 are system standards and not product standards.

The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook offers an understanding and tools needed to implement a performance-based FGS design.

exida has certified RPC Radiy’s FPGA-Based Safety Controller (FSC) RadICS for functional safety, ensuring that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

Eliminating Black Boxes in Safety Applications

Using Smart Field Devices to Improve Safety System Performance

The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar.

Topics covered include importing Process Hazards Analysis data, performing SIL Determination studies using Risk Graph and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) Loop Verification/Validation, Safety Requirements Specifications, and Reporting.

Can Early Involvement Improve Operations and Maintenance in the Safety Life Cycle?

Understanding Safety Life Cycles

exida certified SSX and SST Safety Series isolator and splitter for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508:2010.

The Det-Tronics FlexSonic Acoustic Gas Leak Detector meets functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capable per IEC 61508.

Achieving Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 with non-redundant field devices is possible, but not always easy.

The Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) specs include support for FOUNDATION fieldbus H1 (31.25 bit/s) dual-mode devices employing field diagnostics.

By Rajeev Limaye Track: Safety/Environmental This presentation focuses on the design considerations when alarm is used as an Independent Protection Layer—whether or not the instruments and sensors can be shared between different protection layers and how they could be arranged in fault-tolerant configurations to achieve safety, reliability, and independence.

Alarm Floods and Their Connection to Plant Incidents