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What is a Stage 1 FSA & How Can It Help Discover Critical SIS Flaws?

Discover how a Stage 1 FSA can identify critical Safety Instrumented System (SIS) flaws early in the design process.

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.

Taking credit for unplanned shutdowns as a Proof Test

Exploring the concept of taking proof test credit for an unplanned shutdown in order to delay a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) proof tes

Key Considerations Establishing Site or Corporate SIS Guidelines

Key considerations to developing SIS guidelines, with the SIS lifecycle generalized into three main sections: Concept Through Startup, Opera

Is That Really Why Control Systems Go Wrong? - Video Presentation

Presented by Greg Hardin - Senior Principal Specialist, aeSolutions Why Do Control Systems Go Wrong? The British HSE publication “Out of...

Does Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the Symptom

Is our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...

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

FGS 1400 MK II - Evolution of the traditional Fire panel

To develop the Fire and Gas system requirements needed by industry, we first needed to understand the regulatory requirements, applicable in

Methodologies in Reducing Systematic Failures of Wired IPLs

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

Case Study of a Safety Instrumented Burner Management System (SI-BMS)

This paper will cover: the development of a SIS front end loading package the project cost savings realized attributed to following the saf