If you’re like me then you’ve been waiting for the new draft of IEC 61511 to be officially issued since its release has been delayed for some time. However, a draft has been released and can help in preparing end users for what’s to come. The question…
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Entries tagged with: Safety Lifecycle
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Thursday, November 15, 2018
- Functional Safety
Are You Undertaking Periodic Personnel Performance Assessments?
One of the changes that was made in 2016 to the IEC 61511 standard was the inclusion of periodic personnel assessments (clause 5.2.2.3), whereby a procedure is required to manage the competence of all those involved in the SIS lifecycle; “periodic” assessments are to be carried out to document…
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Tuesday, November 03, 2015
- Functional Safety
Best Practices in Achieving Functional Safety in Turbine Applications - Part 2
The adoption of the functional safety standards continues to gain momentum in turbine applications. Both industrial and power turbine sites are now requiring compliance to IEC 61511. This blog will review both technical requirements and market trends related to functional safety system design. Market trends will cover which standards…
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Wednesday, January 21, 2015
- Functional Safety
Field Data Validation with Predictive Analytics
Who cares about field failure data? Why are we even here?
IEC 61511 – Fundamental Concepts
The fundamental concepts from our functional safety standards are the probabilistic performance based design. Many of you know that this was terribly controversial when this was first proposed. Even to this day, there…
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Thursday, November 04, 2021
- Functional Safety
Measuring Performance – Why Are We Not Doing This?
Part of the changes to the IEC61511 standard in 2016, some five (5) years ago now, was to emphasize the need to do a better job with regards to the Operations and Maintenance phase of the safety lifecycle. One of the key aspects of the Operation and Maintenance phase…
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Thursday, June 30, 2016
- Functional Safety
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Practical SIL Target Selection - Risk Analysis per the IEC 61511 Safety Lifecycle
Each month at exida, we strive to spotlight one of our products that makes the job easier for today's industry professional. In this blog, I wanted to talk about the exida publication Practical SIL Target Selection - Risk Analysis per the IEC 61511 Safety Lifecycle which is based on numerous…
- by John Yozallinas, CFSE
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021
- Certification
Spend Your Product Development Time Wisely
Want to improve your safety lifecycle and be more compliant with IEC 61508? Focus on the things that have the most benefit. Like what? What are some of these valuable things?
One of the major deficiencies I see while doing certification assessments is…
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Wednesday, May 17, 2017
- Functional Safety
Why Is Functional Safety An Important Piece of Process Safety Management?
It’s interesting to note that with the release of the 2016 edition of IEC61511, there’s more emphasis being placed on the need for better functional safety management. Having taught many courses on Functional Safety over the past few years, I find that most of the…