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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

Breathing Life into the Alarm Management Lifecycle

‘Evergreen’ and ‘lifecycle’ have become two common buzz words in our industry. They are thrown around in a variety of topics, processes, and

Can we achieve Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) without analyzing Human Factors?

Incorporate quantitative Human Factors into a SIL analysis. Representative operating units at various stages of maturity in human factors an

Stopping the Swirl: Facilitation Tools that Improve PHA Results and Efficiency

Effective Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) facilitators combine soft skills with technical knowledge to guide PHA teams through a thorough iden

Understanding Overpressure Scenarios and RAGAGEP

Introduction to Using RAGAGEP for Overpressure Risk Mitigation

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

What is Truth? Do SIL Calculations Reflect Reality?

Are random hardware failures the only thing that cause a safety instrumented function (SIF) to fail? What if our assumptions are wrong? What