You have seen the SLM demonstration and are impressed. Every process safety, safety engineering and operations challenge that you threw at the demonstration team has been answered. The software has a well-designed and user-friendly solution for every problem except one: How do you sell this to your management? Your management has limited funds available. The decision to purchase SLM competes with other priorities such as installing a new pump or replacing that corroded piping. You know you need this software and that it would save a lot of time and money, but how do you communicate that?

This paper discusses how safety lifecycle software purchases may be effectively justified to your senior management through both business and safety case studies from actual customer experiences. Your numbers will likely differ from the numbers used in these case studies, but this paper should help you understand where to look.

By leveraging the power of real-world device event data and incorporating that data into a SIS Safety Lifecycle Management (SLM) software, plant operations and maintenance teams can gain powerful insights into the performance of their Safety Instrumented Systems...

Safety Lifecycle Management roles and functions cross multiple organizational boundaries and require active and continual sharing of data that often does not occur in traditional process facilities. This paper discusses the business reasons for adoption of an...

IEC 61511 and ISA 84.00.01-2004, Clause 10, requires that a Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) be prepared for all Safety Instrumented Systems (SISs). The Clause presents a number of items to cover in the SRS, but provides little or no guidance on how a SRS...

Over the past 25 years, the process safety and functional safe- ty disciplines have evolved from the implementation of safety legislation and the creation of governing authorities, to the de- development of best practices and the adoption of applicable stan- dards. As...

The IEC and ISA standards for Safety Instrumented Systems (SISs) describe basic requirements for Functional Safety Assessments (FSAs) (FSAs), but do not provide specifications or guidance on how to execute or document an FSA. This commonly results in FSAs that are...

As increasing attention falls upon managing Safety Instrumented Systems (SISs), industry leaders are looking for more reliable device and equipment options when designing their safety instrumented functions – the goal being to achieve the highest possible Risk...