Health, Safety and Environment

Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessment plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) within industrial processes. By evaluating and determining the appropriate SIL

Understanding Tolerable Risk In functional safety, the primary objective is to ensure that a facility remains safe throughout its operational lifetime. This is achieved by implementing Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs)

Permissives and Inhibit Functions of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) play a critical role in process safety by either preventing or allowing a sequence to proceed. These

Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and integrity of industrial processes. Each SIF is composed of three primary subsystems: sensors, a logic solver, and

Ensuring competency in functional safety is a crucial aspect of compliance with IEC 61511, a globally recognized standard for the safety instrumented systems (SIS) used in process industries. The standard

Systematic failures result from errors during the development, design, operation, or maintenance of a system. Unlike random failures, systematic failures are not tied to physical degradation but instead arise from

Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) assumes that Independent Protection Layers (IPLs) are completely independent of both the initiating event and other credited IPLs in the same scenario. However, there are

The Applications and Uses of Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) in Risk Assessment Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a vital tool in industrial risk assessment, enabling companies to evaluate