Safety Instrumented Systems Training

Recognising the substantial benefits of fostering intelligent customer capability within your workforce, our training programs are designed to produce individuals who are not only technically proficient but also capable of astute judgment and decision-making regarding functional safety systems. This ensures your staff have the critical ability to challenge and manage external suppliers effectively, maintaining ownership of functional safety throughout your operation while minimising dependency on suppliers. 

Our Functional Course covers the IEC 61508 and IEC61511 safety with touchpoints including:

• Typical issues found by the HSE: Tap into our cross industry experience to identify the areas of weakness typically found by HSE inspectors. 

• Functional Safety Management Systems: Understand the management systems that you require and identify any gaps in your current systems. 

• Functional Safety Planning: Learn what should be present in plans for new projects and an existing site. 

• Function Safety Assessment: Expert-led guidance on the requirements for conducting thorough Functional Safety Assessments 

• Verification, Validation, Audit and Review: Learn the differences between these along with how and when they are used. 

• Legacy installed Systems: There is no need to rip out old equipment. Understand how to manage legacy systems and the standards to use.

• Non-SIL systems: Insights into the regulators expectations on the management of non-SIL systems (termed SILa, SIL0 or sub-SIL)

• Hazard and Risk Assessment: Learn how the risk reduction fits in with Functional Safety. Identify alternate cost effective means of risk reduction. 

• SIL Determination: Understanding on how SIL targets are set, the techniques used. 

• Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) for SIS: Categorical breakdown of the key elements required to formulate precise SRS.

• Design and SIS Engineering Principles: Insights into achieving and verifying compliance with SIL targets through robust design methodologies. 

• Installation, Commissioning, and Validation Processes: Understanding the critical steps for ensuring that SIS meets original specifications post-installation.

• Maintenance and Proof Testing: Education on how proof testing links to the achieved SIL and the importance of performance data collection.  Learn why inspection, functional testing and proof testing are all different activities. 

• Management of Change: Understanding of the functional safety requirements for managing changes and how this differs from typical MoC.