Functional Safety and SIL for Technicians IEC 61511 training

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Course Description

Risknowlogy offers the accredited Functional Safety and SIL for Technicians training course for technicians that work with safety instrumented systems. These technicians are involved in the maintenance, proof testing or repairing of SIL related safety equipment. This course trains technicians according to  the requirements of IEC 61511.

The main objective of this course is to give technicians the knowledge and competency required to maintain, proof test and repair safety instrumented systems according to the functional safety and SIL requirements of the standard IEC 61511. The second objective is to give the technicians attending the course the opportunity to certify their knowledge through an exam.

What you will get

All participants get:

• The course material
• eBook on functional safety and SIL
• Safety Passport

Knowledge Certification

This course comes with an exam and personal knowledge certification.

• Functional Safety Technician certificate for those that obtain 60% or hire on the exam
• Functional Safety Technician certificate with distinction for those that obtain 85% or hire on the exam
• Certificate of Attendance for that that do not pass the exam

Who should attend Functional Safety and SIL for Technician training

Any technician working maintaining, proof testing and/or repairing equipment installed in Safety Instrumented Systems.

Course content

Day 1

• Introduction to functional safety
  • Functional safet shows up in accidents
  • What is safety?
  • Occupational safety versus process safety
  • Layers of protection
  • Safety instrumented systems
  • SIS and SIFs
  • What is functional safety?
  • Two important functional safety standards
  • How IEC 61511 deals with functional safety
  • Safety integrity level – SIL
  • Safety instrumented functions can fail
  • States of the SIF and Process
  • Safety instrumented system failures
  • Random, common cause and systematic failures
• Functional safety management:
  • Why manage safety?
  • Objective functional safety management
  • Safety life cycle concept
  • Need for a functional safety manager
  • Competency of Technicians
  • Verification and validation and the role of technicians
  • Assessment and audit and the role of technicians
  • Assessment and audit stages
  • Audit plan
  • Tools subject to audit
  • Documentation
  • Modifications and the modification procedure
• Hazard and risk analysis
  • What is a hazard
  • What is a hazardous events
  • What is risk
  • From hazard to hazardous event
  • Causes and consequences
  • What is tolerable risk
  • Techniques including HAZOP and LOPA
  • Risk reduction
  • SIF descriptions
  • Role of technicians during hazards and risk analysis
• Planning
  • Safety requirements specification – SRS
  • Functional safety plan
  • Planning verification
  • Planning SAT
  • Planning assessments and audits
  • Requirements for suppliers
• Safety Instrumented System – Hardware
  • De-energise or energise to trip
  • Low demand, high demand, continous mode SIFs
  • Target failure measure: PFD, PFH
  • Redundancy, diversity
  • Voting and Hardware Fault Tolerance (HFT)
  • Hardware fault tolerance for safe failures – (HFTs)
  • Type A and Type B equipment
  • Diagnostic testing and proof testing
  • Safety failure fraction
  • Architectural constraints
  • Proven in use / Prior use
  • Exercise for Technicians

Day 2

• Hardware reliability – PFD
  • Simplified equations
  • Influence of failure rate on PFD
  • Influence of repair on PFD
  • Influence of proof testing on PFD
• Safety Instrumented Systems – Software
  • Software locations in an SIS
  • Safet software is needed
  • Technician software activities
  • Typical features of an application program
• Certification
  • What can be certified
  • Why use certified devices
  • How Technicians use certified devices
  • How the safety manual influences Technicians
  • Certification to prove competence
• Operation, maintenance and repair (OMR) of SIS
  • OMR procedures
  • OMR plans
  • Inspection
  • Proof testing
  • Bypass
  • Repair
  • Configuration management
  • Training for technicians
  • Alarm management
  • OMR documentation
  • Hidden modifications
• Exercises
  • Applying knowledge to your companies OMR procedures
• Exam
  • Open book
  • 1 hour