2015 Dates for UK based Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Training for Safety Instrumented System Professionals

Exloc Instruments (UK) Ltd are pleased to announce 2015 dates for UK based Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Training for Safety Instrumented System Professionals, presented by Worldwide renowned Functional Safety Expert, Tino Vande Capelle.

Tino is an accepted course provider within the Functional Safety Program for Safety Instrumented Systems (Read More) 

(SIS) of TÜV Rheinland.  The course focuses on functional safety aspects for the process, oil & gas, petrochemical and chemical industries according to IEC 61508 / 61511.

Course objective

The main objective is to provide all engineers involved in safety instrumented systems with elementary and necessary knowledge about functional safety, based on the leading international functional safety standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.
A second objective is to give anybody attending the course the opportunity to have his or her functional safety competency confirmed by the TÜV Rheinland upon successfully passing the exam.

Who Should Attend?

• Plant and quality managers
• System integrators and independent consultants
• Control and process engineers
• Maintenance and instrumentation engineers
• Managers of engineering departments
• Risk, reliability, safety and quality engineers
• Loss prevention engineers
• Sales engineers - Sales managers - Marketing specialists for safety-products, systems and services
• Technical staff involved in any part of SIS lifecycle that need or want to develop their competency in Functional Safety

Why Should You Attend?

IEC 61508 ed2.0, released in April 2010, clearly indicates as a ‘Normative’ requirement, that anybody involved in safety lifecycle activities shall be competent to carry out the activities for which they are accountable.
Take advantage of this course, examination and certification to prove your clients, peers and management, your competency in the field of Functional Safety. Success in the final examination certifies your functional safety knowledge on your personal name, adding a great value to your professional career and image.

Participant eligibility requirements:

In accordance with the FS Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) Program:

• Minimum 3 years experience in the field of functional safety
• University degree (Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering) or equivalent engineer level responsibilities status certified by employer

Course Duration

3.5 days: 3 consecutive days vocational training with student exercises, + 4 hours closed book exam in the morning of the fourth consecutive day.

Introduction to functional safety

• What is safety?
• Legal status IEC61511
• Overview of legal requirements
• Layers of protection
• Safety Instrumented System
• Safety integrity level
• Problems with safety systems
• Safety system failures    
• What is functional safety?
• Functional Safety Standards

The basics of functional safety

• Functional safety management
• Lifecycle concept
• Documentation
• Verification & Validation
• Assessments & Audits
• Modifications
• Competency of people

Hazard & Risk Analysis

• Hazard & Risk definition
• Tolerable risk
• Risk management
• Hazard Identification Techniques, FMEA, FTA, HAZOP
• Hazard Analysis Techniques ETA
• Risk Reduction Techniques, risk matrix, risk graph, LOPA
• Safety Functions
• Safety Requirement Specification

Planning the Safety System

• Planning for end users (integrators)
• Realisation safety system
• Three important documents
• Requirements for suppliers

Hardware design

• Hardware lifecycle
• Hardware concepts
• Hardware fault tolerance
• Diagnostics, Proof test
• Safe failure fraction
• Architectural constraints
• Reliability analysis
• Markov modeling
• FMEDA
• Failure Data

Software design

• Software lifecycle
• Safe software
• Three types of software
• Software testing
• V-model
• Measures to avoid failures
• Measures to control failures

Certification and Proven In Use

• Certification & compliance
• Safety Manual requirements
• Certificates & reports
• Proven in use, how to use?
• Reliability data, sources

Using the Safety System

• Installation and commissioning
• Safety Validation
• Operation, maintenance and repair
• Modification and retrofit

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