It is a full fledged e-learning course with interactive animations, simulations, graphics and text. It also has many worked out example problems, to help understand the logic behind designing and operation of Safety Instrumented Systems.

• Design and Electrical Engineers
• Instrument and Process Control Engineers and Technicians
• Mechanical Engineers and Technicians
• Operations and Process Engineers
• Line Managers and Supervisors
• Personnel who are responsible for designing, selecting, specifying, installing, operating, and maintaining safety instrumentation systems
• Experienced professionals who want to broaden their understanding of safety instrumentation systems (SIS)
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This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

The course has SEVEN modules as outlined below:

1. Introduction to Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short)
2. Hazards, Risks & their analysis
3. Failures & Reliability
4. Safety Integrity Level
5. SIS Standards
6. SIS in practice
7. SIS Testing & Maintenance

Detailed course contents

MODULE 1- Introduction to SIS

• What are Safety Instrumented Systems?
• Basic Ideas about SIS
• Functional Safety
• Instrumented Systems & Safety Instrumented Systems
• BPCS
• BPCS and SIS
• Safety Instrumented Function
• Safety Instrumented Function-2
• Safety Instrumented Function-3
• Emergency Shutdown Systems
• Need for a separate SIS
• Simulation exercise
• Learnings from the exercise
• Typical architecture
• Integrated BPCS & SIS
• Integrated BPCS & SIS-2
• Differences between BPCS & SIS  

MODULE 2-Hazards, Risks & their analysis

• Hazards & Risks
• Types of hazards- Fire & Explosions
• Types of hazards-Toxic Material
• The Safety Lifecycle
• Steps in analysis
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis
• HAZOP
• HAZAN
• Consequence Analysis
• Risk
• Risk graph
• Risk Reduction
• Risk Reduction-2
• The ALARP principle
• Risk Reduction in process plants
• Risk Reduction explained
• Risk reduction using an SIF
• Risk reduction using an SIF
• Layers of Protection
• Layers of Protection in the process industries
• Preventive & Mitigative layers
• Safety Requirement Specification
• Safety Requirement Specification-2
• Diversity  

MODULE 3-Failures & Reliability

• Failures
• Types of failures
• Types of failures-2
• Types of failures-3
• Dangerous & Safe failures
• Dangerous & Safe failures
• Safe Failure Fraction
• SFF Pie Chart
• Proof Test Interval
• Diagnostic Coverage
• Common Cause Failures
• Common Cause Failures-2
• CCF Example
• Diversity
• Reliability
• Failure Rate
• MTTF
• MTTR
• MTBF
• Failure Data
• Software Reliability & fault injection
• Reliability Block Diagrams
• Reliability Block Diagrams-2
• Reliability Block Diagrams-3
• Redundancy and Reliability
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Fault Tree Analysis Example- 1
• FTA and RBD
• Fault Tree Analysis Example-2
• Fault Tree Analysis Example-2
• Fault Tree Analysis-Probabilities
• Event Trees
• Event Tree Components
• Event Tree Analysis Example
• Fail-Safe and Fail Danger modes
• FMEA
• FMEDA
• FMEDA report
• How to use the FMEDA report
• Example FMEDA report
• Redundancy
• Redundancy and Voting
• Voting Systems 1oo1
• Voting Systems 1oo2
• Voting Systems 1oo2D
• Voting Systems 2oo2
• Voting Systems 2oo3
• Spurious Trips
• Concept of Demand
• Demand in a plant
• Low Demand & High Demand
• PFD  

MODULE 4-Safety Integrity Level

• Introduction to Safety Integrity Level
• What SIL is not
• Is SIL applicable to me?
• SIL 1 to SIL 4
• SIL for Demand Mode
• SIL for Demand Mode-Example
• SIL for Continuous/High Demand Mode
• The SIL process
• Common SIL questions
• Common SIL questions-2
• Target SIL-Qualitative & Quantitative methods
• Risk Reduction Factor-1
• Risk Reduction Factor-2
• Safety Availability and PFDavg
• SIL calculation Example
• SIL calculation Example
• SIL calculation Example (contd)
• SIL calculation Example (contd)
• SIL Calculation example-(modification)
• SIL Calculation example-additional layers
• SIL Calculation example-caution
• Consequence Only Method
• Hazard Matrix Method
• Hazard Matrix Method- (contd)
• Hazard Matrix Method-Example
• Risk Parameter Graph-1
• Risk Parameter Graph-2
• Risk Parameter Graph-3
• Calibrated Risk Graph-1
• Calibrated Risk Graph-2
• LOPA method
• Conducting a LOPA
• More about LOPA
• LOPA Example
• LOPA Example contd
• LOPA Example contd 2
• LOPA Example contd 3
• Target SIL & SIL verification
• SIF design process
• PFD of simple loop
• SIL verification example-1
• SIL verification example-2
• SIL verification for complex loops
• Markov Modeling-1
• Markov Modeling-2
• Markov Modeling-3
• Markov Modeling-4
• Simplified Equations
• Use of Simplified Equations-Example
• Architectural Constraints
• Architectural Constraints IEC 61508
• Hardware Fault Tolerance-IEC61508
• Hardware Fault Tolerance (contd)
• Architectural Constraints-Example
• Hardware Fault Tolerance-IEC61511
• Hardware Fault Tolerance example
• Conclusion  

MODULE 5-SIS Standards

• Introduction to Standards in SIS
• AK 1 to AK 8
• IEC Standards
• IEC 61508
• E/E/PE systems
• IEC 61508-Safety Life Cycle
• IEC 61511-Basics
• Relationship between IEC 61508 & IEC 61511
• ISA S84 Background
• ISA S84 Differences
• Where to get standards
• What standards apply to me?  

MODULE 6- SIS in practice

• Components of the Safety Loop
• Types of logic Solvers
• Hardwired logic solvers-Trip amplifiers
• Hardwired logic solvers-Gates
• Safety Relays-Electromechanical
• Safety Relays-Electromechanical-2
• Safety Relays-Electromechanical-3
• Safety Relays-Electromechanical-4
• Safety Relays-Electronic
• Safety Relays-Electronic-2
• Programmable Logic Solvers
• Safety PLCs & General Purpose PLCs
• Fault Diagnostics
• Safety PLCs- Inputs
• Safety PLCs-Processors
• Safety PLCs- Outputs
• Safety PLCs-Software
• Safety PLCs-Software-2
• Safety PLCs-Software-Design
• Safety PLCs-Voting architecture
• Safety PLCs-TMR
• Safety PLCs-QMR
• Safety PLCs-Interface to BPCS
• Safety Networks-1
• Safety Networks-2
• HIPPS  

MODULE 7-SIS Testing & Maintenance

• Need for testing
• Testing-Example
• Breakup of failures
• Testing the components of a SIS
• Testing Sensors & Transmitters
• Testing Logic Solvers
• Testing valves
• Valve Testing-Bypass method
• Partial Stroke Testing
• Partial Stroke Testing-ISA method
• Valve Testing- Mechanical Stoppers
• Valve Testing-Smart Positioner method
• PST-Advantages & Disadvantages
• Testing and PFDavg
• Conclusion

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.