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IEC 61508 / 61511 Functional Safety Courses
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Locations
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Danubius Hotel
Regents Park, London
26/27 November 2008
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Outline of Two-day Training Course
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1. Management of functional safety
- Policy and responsibilities for people, the environment and physical assets
- Safety life-cycle and demonstrating compliance, FAT, Verification & Validation
(V&V), Assessments, Audits and Competency
- Information and documentation requirements
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2. Process hazard and risk analysis
- Hazard identification and analysis
- Risk reduction requirements and ALARP
- Selection of the method for determining required SIL
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3. Allocation of safety functions to protection layers
- Key differences between IEC 61508 and 61511
- Layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and screening techniques
- Common cause and dependent failures
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4. SIS safety requirements specification
- Modes of operation and determining the required SIL
- Architecture and lessons from "Out of control"
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5. SIS design and engineering
- SIL assessment of hardware, fault tolerance,
- diagnostic coverage and safe failure fraction
- SIL assessment of software
- Selection of equipment
- Human factors
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6. Requirements for application software
- Architecture, design methods, and V&V
- Full and limited variability languages
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7. SIS installation and commissioning
- FAT and V&V planning and integration,
- good practice, training and simulation
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8. SIS operation and maintenance
- Inspection and proof testing
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9. SIS management of change
- Modification and decommissioning
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Speakers
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 DR TONY FOORD CEng MIEE is a principal engineer of 4-sight
Consulting and specialist in operational risk, reliability and functional safety. He has 25 years experience of managing major
computer projects in the process, transport and utilities industries. His experience includes design, maintenance and operations
management of oil and petrochemical processes; and more recently risk assessments of powers stations and process plant.
His current focus is on the interactions between safety systems and operators. [Top]
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 BILL GULLAND CEng MIEE MInstMC is a principal consultant
of 4-sight Consulting involved in preparation of safety cases for offshore installations and the independent assessment of safety
-related systems and instrument-based protective systems. He worked for 13 years in the petrochemical industry for ICI, as a
process control engineer, plant manager, and control systems commissioning engineer. In 1980 he joined the oil industry with
BNOC / Britoil / BP Exploration, with whom he held various engineering and project management posts concerned with the
support of existing offshore installations and the design and commissioning of new ones. He was particularly involved in the response to the Piper A
disaster, and in a number of projects which employed high integrity protection systems (HIPSs). [Top]
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 COLIN HOWARD CEng FInstMC MInstP is an independent
consultant with 35 years experience in Instrument, Control and Electrical Engineering, Quality and SHE Management. In his
career he has been responsible for maintenance, control engineering, design, standardisation, and development of the
supply chain and of the design process. He has worked in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries for ICI and
ABB. His recent activities have been in the assessment and implementation of SHE management systems, risk assessments
of process plant, the application development of IEC 61508 and the introduction of the CASS scheme. A focus of this work has
been the integrity and risk potential of control and protective systems and their interface with operating staff. [Top]
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Fees
First booking: £675 + VAT
Additional bookings: £615 + VAT
Payment can be made by:
- Cheque drawn on a UK bank
- Sterling banker's draft on a UK bank
- Crossed international money order
- Sterling traveller's cheques
- Credit or debit card
Cheques or orders should be made payable to 4-sight Consulting.
Substitutions may be made at any time, but an administrative charge of £50 will be made for any bookings
cancelled up to 14 days before the start of the course. After this time no fees are refundable. [Top]
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Booking
By phone: +44 (0)1582 462324
By fax: +44 (0)1582 766715
By post: 4-sight Consulting
Southern Office
51 Cowper Road
Harpenden, Herts
AL5 5NJ
[Print Booking Form]
By email:
Training@4-sightConsulting.co.uk
[Book Online]
Accommodation
The course runs from 9am to 5pm.
Lunch and refreshments are included, and although overnight
accommodation is not included, a discounted rate at the hotel is available on request. [Top]
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