Practical

SAFETY INSTRUMENTATION
& EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN
SYSTEMS for Process Industries
using IEC 61511* and IEC 61508

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN:

• Be able to determine required SIL ratings using at least 3 different
methods as listed in IEC 61511
• Take away a checklist to assess your plant’s compliance with the
latest international safety standards
• Walk away with a solid fundamental knowledge of IEC 61511 and
IEC 61508 which you can apply immediately to your plant
• Ability to help your company to comply with the best available
practices for their safety control systems
• Get a practical understanding of the key sections of IEC 61511 and
61508 without wading through hundreds of pages of standards
documents
• Be able to configure safety systems to minimise or avoid spurious
trips and create the potential to reduce production losses.
• Know what can be done and what should not be done with PLC's
and smart sensors

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Instrumentation and control engineers and technicians
• Design, installation and maintenance engineers and technicians in
the process industries
• Managers and sales professionals employed by end users
• Engineering firms
• System integrators
• System consultants

* The IEC 61511 standard is effectively the operating company's guide to

the management, planning and execution of state of the art risk reduction
measures using instrumentation and control equipment. IEC 61511
effectively merges the established USA standard ANSI/ISA S 84 - 1996
with the European practices founded in IEC 61508.

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THE WORKSHOP
For project managers and engineers involved with
hazardous processes, this 2 day workshop focuses
on the management, planning and execution of
automatic safety systems in accordance with IEC
61511, the newly released international standard for
process industry safety controls. (See over for
background to IEC 61511).
IEC 61511 has been recognized by European safety
authorities and by USA based process companies as
representing the best practices available for the
provision of automatic safety systems. The new
standard captures many of the well established
project and design techniques that have been
described since 1996 in ANSI/ISA standard S84
whilst introducing many newer principles based on
the master standard IEC 61508. The newly released
standard IEC 61511 (published in 3 parts) combines
the principles of IEC 61508 and S84 into a practical
and easily understood code of practice specifically
for end users in the process industries.
This new IDC Workshop is structured into two
major parts to ensure that both managers and
engineering staff are trained in the fundamentals of
safety system practices. The first part of the
workshop, lasting for the morning of day 1 provides
an overview of the critical issues involved in
managing and implementing safety systems.
The subjects covered in the overview portion of the
workshop include:
• Hazard/risk management principles applied to
protection systems
• The legal framework such as major accident
hazard regulations and control of substances
hazardous to health
• An overview of standards IEC 61508 and 61511
• An introduction to the safety life cycle as defined
in IEC 61511
• Process hazard analysis and its link to protection
systems
• The meaning of SILs and risk reduction
• The problems and rewards of SIL determination
• Basics of safety instrumented system failure
• Why programmable systems need special
treatment
• Economics and cost of ownership
• Competency requirements and conformity
assessment programs
• Management of functional safety
• Conclusion: What should management be doing
towards compliance?
Safety authorities are now expecting companies to
work to established international standards and often
insist on compliance with them. For automatic
safety systems the general standard IEC 61508 and
the process industry version IEC 61511 describe
principles for their planning, management and
implementation. There is an increasing demand for
conformity assessment to be carried out by
independent bodies who will examine the abilities of
a company to manage its safety activities. In
particular, safety systems are not considered to be
acceptable unless they are supported by suitable
management systems with competent staff.
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This training workshop provides the essential
grounding in IEC 61511 and its safety management THE PROGRAM
principles needed to develop conformity and
competency in safety systems.
DAY ONE
The remaining 1½ days are allocated to training of
engineers and technicians in aspects of safety
lifecycle practices. Some of key issues covered in Module 1 : Overview of Safety
this stage include; Instrumented Systems for Managers
• The role of HAZOP studies and hazard analysis in Module 2 : Introduction to IEC 61511 and
deciding what safety measures are needed. The the Safety Lifecycle
training includes an outline of basic HAZOP
methods and trains participants in fault tree Module 3 : Hazop methods and hazard
analysis methods used to predict accident rates.
analysis for defining risk reduction
• Understanding safety integrity levels (SILs) and requirements
their impact on capital and operating costs. PRACTICAL EXERCISE
• Methods for the determination of SIL
requirements. This subject is known to cause Module 4 : Principles of risk reduction and
difficulties and confusion in the early stages of safety allocation
process development projects and the subject has PRACTICAL EXERCISE
now been covered in depth by IEC 61511. This
workshop examines the various SIL Module 5 : Practical SIL determination
determination methods presented in IEC 61511 methods based on IEC 61511
and provides practical exercises to ensure
PRACTICAL EXERCISE
participants are able to carry out their own SIL
determinations with confidence.
• Why safety PLCs are special and need to be
certified for safety.
DAY TWO
• Safety system architectures such as 1oo2 and
2oo3 and which versions to use to meet
performance needs of reliability and availability. Module 6 : Practical SIS configurations
for both safety and availability targets
• What IEC 61511 requires from instruments,
sensors and valves to qualify them for safety PRACTICAL EXERCISE
applications. Are smart transmitters acceptable for
safety? How can a smart positioner improve Module 7 : Practical selection of sensors
safety performance? and actuators for safety duties
• How to perform reliability analysis to predict and Module 8 : Practical reliability analysis
verify safety system reliability and spurious trip
methods and programs to IEC 61511
rates.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE
• Guidelines on documentation and validation of
completed installations. Module 9 : Practical selection of safety
• Essentials of maintenance and proof testing. The controllers
benefits of diagnostic systems in reducing test
frequencies. Module 10 : Practical system integration
and application software for safety
controllers
ON-SITE TRAINING Module 11 : Practical documentation and
validation of SIS systems
Module 12 : Practical diagnostics and
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