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Identifying Required Safety Instrumented Functions for HIGH-TECH & SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING

This paper will discuss the issues, decisions, and challenges encountered when attempting to initially apply the concepts of the Safety Life

How Taking Credit for Planned and Unplanned Shutdowns Can Help You Achieve Your SIL Targets

Achieving Safety Integrity Level (SIL) targets can be difficult when proof test intervals approach turnaround intervals of five years or mor

A Database Approach to the Safety Life Cycle

A systematic database approach can be used to design, develop and test a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) using methodologies that are in co

Functional Safety Specialists May be Stuck in the Past – Do our SIL calculations Reflect Reality?

Functional safety specialists may be stuck in the past and doing industry a disservice. The current industry trend is to only consider rando

How About a Stage Zero Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)?

Inspired by “Conducting an Effective Functional Safety Assessment” presented at 2019 ISA PIC 2019—Process Industry Conference. by Greg...