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Promoting a Sustainable Process Safety Culture
Promoting a sustainable process safety culture can be difficult. The Chemical Safety Board just issued their report on the November 2014 incident at the DuPont La Porte plant in which 4 people were killed:
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Summary of the Report
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How to Use Your Process Historian to Generate Automated Safety Lifecycle Manager (SLM) Events
Capturing Events in SLM generally requires manual entry of data by a user. However, this doesn’t need to be the case. It is possible to automatically extract Event data from a Process Historian. Setting it up takes some initial work, but once the setup has been done, the process of Event generation can be automated.
First, the...
Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) – “A” is for Assessment
Functional Safety Assessment VS Functional Safety Audit
When I chair a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) for a Safety Instrumented System (SIS), there is usually a brief kickoff meeting with the personnel that will be involved in the assessment such as Engineering,
When Should You Conduct a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)?
When Should You Conduct a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)?
The ISA 84.01.00 and IEC 61511 ed. 2, Part 1, clause 5.2.6 safety standards require that every safety instrumented system (SIS) shall have a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) performed prior to being placed into service. A FSA is required in order to provide assurance that a SIS has been...
What really should be in a Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)?
IEC 61511 ed.2 and ISA 84.00.01 require that a Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) be prepared for each Safety Instrumented System (SIS). Clause 10 describes the requirements for the SRS. Clause 10.3.2 lists the minimum items that shall be addressed in the SRS. A total of 29 items are listed.
In my experience (over 40 years) reviewing SRS’s produced by multiple...
5 Reasons You Should Invest in a Safety System (other than Safety)
When it comes to Safety Systems, there are two perspectives:
Those who have experienced a major incident VS those who have not.
Most of those who have experienced a major incident have no desire to experience another one. Those who have not are often unable or unwilling to recognize that they could be next. Unfortunately, these...