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Can Stage 3 FSA Confirm Your Safety Instrumented System Is Ready for Operational Use?

Verify your Safety Instrumented System's readiness with a Stage 3 FSA, ensuring safe operation and compliance with design specifications.

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

A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined by the IEC 61511 standard as an “investigation, based on evidence, to judge the...

The 2nd edition of IEC 61511 now requires – by use of the word “shall” – that a Stage 4 Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) be conducted...

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

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

Functional Safety & Bayesian Networks Functional safety engineers fol low the ISA/IEC 61511 standard & perform calculations based on...