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WHY are Failures Occurring at a Different Rate from Our Other Site?
  • by Ted Stewart, CFSP, exidaCSP
  • Thursday, January 14, 2016
  • Certification

WHY are Failures Occurring at a Different Rate from Our Other Site?

Site audits have shown many differences in how things are done from site to site. This impacts many variables in a safety instrumented system!

A key metric for process industry designs is called average Probability of Failure on Demand (PFDavg).  After several studies of many field failure and proof…

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