News

Control, September 2011
By Béla Lipták
Watch out for outdated and/or unreliable instruments. These can cause major disasters.

Control, September 2011
Oil and gas operators have a lot to do before November 15, 2011, to meet the new SEMS requirements.

Control, September 2011
By Dan Hornbeck, Rockwell Automation
The combination of global safety standards, advanced safety technologies and innovative design approaches are turning safety into a core function that delivers significant business and economic value.

HazardEx, September 2011
The UK is leading the way in the adoption of hazardous area mobile computing solutions, which include ATEX certified personal digital assistants and laptops used in conjunction with specialist software and often wireless infrastructure.

HazardEx, September 2011
Recent incidents at offshore installations, and petroleum refineries and storage facilities in various parts of the world have highlighted the increasing importance of effective process safety management.

Nuclear Engineering International, September 2011
By Robin Pearce
Because of their design complexity, microprocessor-based devices are difficult to prove to be fault-proof. But substantiation of reliability is an essential requirement in the nuclear power industry. The UK nuclear industry has developed a working group and consensus standards to help manage these issues.

InTech, October 2011
By Jeremy Shook and Mark Burzynski
The ISA-84 series of standards addresses functional safety of safety instrumented systems through a more proactive approach, as opposed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) reactive approach in its regulations.

By Philip B Allen, Grace Engineered Products
September 2011
White paper addresses questions and common concerns related to permanent electrical safety devices (PESDs) for lockout and their compliance with OSHA and the NFPA 70E.

Carrying IECEx-i certifications, the 750-606 permits one WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM node to serve hazardous and non-hazardous environments by separating intrinsically and non-intrinsically safe sections.

Honeywell will deploy its Experion Process Knowledge System and Safety Manager emergency shutdown and boiler protection system at a Fortum waste-to-energy facility in Klaipeda, Lithuania.