Member Event: Introduction to Functional Safety & International Standards

The morning seminar is presented by FSCL’s Mr Amir Akhlaghi, and PSL’s Kevin Magee and provide delegates an overview of the International Standards for Functional Safety Services IEC 61508 (the original standard) and thus its process industry derivative IEC 61511.

IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 are considered risk and performance based standards, whereby the engineering of the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) must meet specific performance requirements based on the level of risk reduction it provides. The main aim of these performance requirements is to ensure the SIS is fit for purpose through systematic functional safety lifecycle.

The presentation will detail the requirements placed on the designer of SIS and how these requirements can be managed throughout the project.

Topics covered will be:

Functional safety design lifecycle management. Managing competencies. Safety requirement specifications. Selection of field devices and logic solvers. Systematic capability. Verification and validation. Proof testing.

FSCL is an independent company providing a wide range of safety engineering and consultancy services to the Oil, Gas, Manufacturing, Nuclear and other industries where safety is of paramount importance. FSCL is recognised worldwide as experts in the field of Functional Safety and the application of International Standards to safety systems; the FSCL consultants are activity involved in the global evolution of Function Safety.

Proeon Systems Ltd. Have been offering specialist systems development for clients for well over a decade in industry sectors including; Energy, Process, Manufacturing, Food & Bev, Pharmaceutical etc where Machinery Safety Systems, Automation Systems, Fire and Gas Systems, Gas Turbine Control Systems, Hazardous Area Control Systems, Telecoms Systems, Subsea Control Systems, Emergency Response Management Systems, often require conformance to Functional Safety requirements and are mandatory for many processes.

The event should last no more than 3 hours and refreshments will be available. Proeon’s facilities will be open following the event for attendees to come and see what Proeon does and talk to team members.

Eur ING Mr Amir Akhlaghi BEng (Hons.) TUV-FSEng MSaRS MIET CEng

Amir has worked in control, protection and safety-related applications for the past 10 years. As a Functional Safety Consultant, he conducts and facilitates, HAZOP, Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination, HAZAN (LOPA and FTA) studies in the UK and Middle East. Amir has valuable experience in detailed consequence analysis, HIPS studies and QRAs.

Kevin Magee has nearly 30 years’ experience in the design of complex control and safety systems for a wide variety of industries with particular emphasis on the Oil & Gas and energy sectors. Specialties: Engineering Design and Management, Control and Safety Systems Design, Gas Turbine Control Systems, Subsea Control Systems, Functional Safety

The event will be at the Hethel Engineering Centre, Norwich, NR14 8FB, and ample parking is provided.

To register for this free event or speak to us about you Functional Safety requirements, please contact Proeon on +44(0)1953 859110 or email Nicolle Matthews on [email protected]