Safety Instrumented Systems

1.1 A review of the TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Program

1.2 What is Functional Safety?

1.3 International Standards IEC-61508 / 61511 (ANSI/S84.01-2004)

1.4 Other relevant international standards

1.5 Definition according to IEC 61511/ANSI/S84.01-2004

1.6 Introduction to Safety Life Cycle.

1.7 What is a Safety Instrumented System

1.8 What is a Safety Integrity Level (SIL)

1.9 Risks, Hazards and Protection Layers.

1.10 Introduction to Techniques for Determining SIL of the SIF

• 1.10.0 Methods for determining NIL / SIL
• 1.10.1 As Low As Reasonably Practicable
• 1.10.2 Quantitative Method described in IEC 61508
• 1.10.3 Risk Matrix
• 1.10.4 Safety Layer Matrix
• 1.10.5 Risk Graph
• 1.10.6 Calibrated Risk Graph
• 1.10.7 Layers of Protection Analysis LOPA

2.0 SIL Selection working examples

2.1 Management of Functional Safety.

2.2 What is Safety Requirements Specification (SRS).

2.3 How to build a SRS

2.4 Guideline and important points of a Safety Requirements Specification.

2.5 Design and Engineering in Safety Instrumented Systems.

2.6 Requirements for Hardware Fault Tolerance

2.7 Requirements for Application Software, Including Selection Criteria for Utility Software

3.1 Verification and Validation.

3.2 Determination of PFD

3.2.1 Determining the Failure Rate.

3.2.2 Determination of Mean Time Between Repairs.

3.2.3 Determination of diagnostic coverage.

3.2.4 Determination of Safe Failure Fraction.

3.2.5 Identification of Common Cause Failures

3.2.6 Determination of the Test time.

3.3 PDF equations

3.4 Validation Methods SIS.

3.3.1 Reliability diagrams.

3.3.2 Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

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