Functional Safety Awareness Training – 1 Day Training Course Outline

• Session
• Time
• Title
• Coverages

• 1
• 8:30 – 10:30
• Fundamentals of functional safety: #1
• • Essentials of functional safety
  • Safety function: functionality & safety integrity
  • Hazardous Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Target / Risk Reduction models
  • IEC 61508 family of standards
  • Technology/devices applications

REFRESHMENTS

• 2
• 10:45 – 12:00
• Fundamentals of functional safety: # 2
• • Strategy to achieve functional safety
  • Failure modes & failure categories
  • Safety integrity / Safety Integrity Levels
  • Overall design strategy
  • Compliance model

LUNCH

• 3
• 13:00 -14:30
• Fundamentals of functional safety: # 3
• • Modes of operation:
  • (Low Demand/High Demand/Continuous)
  • Implications for SIL determination
  • Example of overall approach
  • Allocation of safety functions

• 4
• 14:30 – 16:30
• Design essentials to achieve a specified SIL (IEC 61508)
• • Framework for the Design requirements:
  • Hardware Safety Integrity
  • Systematic Safety Integrity
  • Systematic Capability
  • Routes to compliance
  • Architectural constraints

REFRESHMENTS INCLUDED IN SESSION

Day 2

• 5
• 08:30 – 09:00
• Simplified example: SIL achievement
• • Achievement of Safety Integrity comprising:
  • Hardware safety integrity (Architectural Constraints)
  • HFT/SFF Systematic safety integrity

• 6
• 09:00 – 09:45
• Assurance Measures (IEC 61508)
• • Functional Safety Audit
  • Functional Safety Assessment
  • Verification & validation
  • Accreditation & Certification
  • Certification models
  • Traceability

REFRESHMENTS

• 7
• 10:00 – 11:00
• Workshop #1 (IEC 61508)
• • Questions on lectures given (multi-choice)
  • Discussio

• 8
• 11:00 – 12:00
• Design essentials to achieve a specified SIL (IEC 61511)
• • Relationship between IEC 61508 & IEC 61511
  • SIF Functionality & SIF Safety Integrity
  • SIF Loop
  • Safety lifecycle
  • Design requirements to achieve a specified SIL; IEC 61508 & IEC 61511 design options
  • BPCS control and protection functions
  • BPCS as a Protection Layer
  • Reliability modelling
  • Prior Use concepts

lunch

• 9
• 13:00 – 16:30
• Design essentials to achieve a specified SIL (IEC 61511)
• • Relationship between IEC 61508 & IEC 61511
  • SIF Functionality & SIF Safety Integrity
  • SIF Loop
  • Safety lifecycle
  • Design requirements to achieve a specified SIL; IEC 61508 & IEC 61511 design options
  • BPCS control and protection functions
  • BPCS as a Protection Layer
  • Reliability modelling
  • Prior Use concepts

REFRESHMENTS INCLUDED IN SESSION

day3

• 10
• 08:30 – 09:15
• Workshop #2 (IEC 61511)
• • Questions on lectures given (multi-choice)
  • Discussion

• 11
• 09:15 – 10:15
• Management of Functional Safety (IEC 61511) (including Functional Safety Assessment)
• • Organisation & resources
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Risk evaluation & risk management
  • Planning
  • Implementing & monitoring
  • Assessment, auditing & revisions
  • Competence (individual and Competence Management Systems)

REFRESHMENTS

• 12
• 10:30 – 12:00
• SIL determination (including Target & Tolerable risk concepts)
• • Legal Requirements (ALARP)
  • Corporate Risk Criteria
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Quantitative & qualitative approaches
  • Risk Reduction concepts/Risk Parameters: (protection layers/conditional modifiers)
  • LOPA, Risk Graphs, Fault Tree Analysis
  • Sector approaches
  • Contribution of the EUC control system (Low Demand Mode)

• 13
• 13:00 – 15:00
• Operation & Maintenance
• • Modifications
  • Overrides
  • Functional Safety Audits
  • Functional Testing
  • Proof Testing
  • Proof Test Coverage
  • Perfect and imperfect proof testing
  • Proof Test Procedures
  • Changes to Proof Test Procedure

REFRESHMENTS

• 14
• 15:15 – 16:15
• Workshop #3 (Operation & Maintenance)
• • Questions on lectures given (multi-choice)
  • Discussion

• 15
• 16:15- 16:30
• Open Forum
• • Discussion/questions on any issues covered on the course