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Decoding SIS: Are You Doing What’s Necessary to Prevent Disasters?

What is hiding under the radar of a plant SIS? Risk assessments define hazard consequences with assumed initiating event frequencies.

Detection and Mitigation of Hydrogen Releases

Advances in hydrogen safety are forthcoming and continue to evolve. A selection of case studies will be shared in which hypothetical indoor

Designing Operator Tasks to Minimize the Impact of Heuristics and Biases

This paper proposes a combined approach of discussing the cognitive psychology behind System 1 and System 2 thinking, the types of heuristic

Improving the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Design Process with Graphic Diagrams

Examples of the different types of graphic diagrams, methods in which the diagrams were utilized, and the benefits that each provided in th

Lessons Learned on SIL Verification and SIS Conceptual Design

by Richard E. Hanner & Ravneet Singh There are many critical activities and decisions that take place prior to and during the Safety...

Methodologies in Reducing Systematic Failures of Wired IPLs

Common sources of systematic failures and preventative or mitigative measures to prevent their occurrence are presented.

IPL/CMS- Integrity Management of Non-SIS Independent Protection Layers after the LOPA

This paper discusses the identification, selection, implementation and management of Non-SIF IPLs through the process lifecycle.