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Quali-SIL ING: preparation for functional safety engineering certification

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Course sheet
Prevention & risk management 4 Jours From 150 000 FCFA

In a nutshell

What this course aims to achieve

Prepare engineers in charge of designing safety instrumented systems for the certification of their functional safety skills

Four days for engineers who design safety instrumented systems: determining the required safety level, specifying requirements, failure probability calculations, and the architecture of safety loops.

Key challenges

  • A safety level claimed without a written requirements specification cannot be demonstrated. That specification is the document nobody writes and every audit asks for.
  • The probability of failure on demand depends as much on the proof-test interval as on the hardware chosen. A good sensor poorly tested does not hold its level.
  • Common-cause failures ruin redundant architectures: doubling a sensor on the same tapping point does not double reliability.

Learning objectives

  • Determine the safety integrity level required for a given function
  • Write the safety requirements specification for an instrumented function
  • Design a loop architecture that reaches the target level
  • Carry out failure probability and diagnostic coverage calculations
  • Define proof-test intervals and the maintenance constraints that go with them
  • Sit the competence certification examination

Detailed programme

  1. 1The safety life cycle and how responsibilities are shared between parties
  2. 2Determining the required integrity level: qualitative and quantitative methods
  3. 3The safety requirements specification: content, pitfalls, review
  4. 4Architectures and hardware fault tolerance
  5. 5Calculations: probability of failure on demand, failure rates, safe failure fraction
  6. 6Common-cause failures and independence of channels
  7. 7Architectural constraints and design validation
  8. 8Proof testing: interval, coverage, consequences for operations
  9. 9The functional safety file and traceability of design decisions
  10. 10Calculation exercises and the certification examination

Target audience

  • Design engineers in instrumentation, automation and process control
  • Safety and reliability engineers involved in design
  • Engineers in design offices and system integrators

Prerequisites

  • Engineering degree or equivalent experience in instrumentation or automation
  • Practical experience of process control systems

Learning methods

Four days face-to-face, with calculations on industrial cases

The certification examination held at the end of the session

Learning assessment

Level determination and calculation exercises assessed during the session

Written functional safety competence certification examination

Scope of application

Reference frameworks: IEC 61508 for generic functional safety and IEC 61511 for the process industries. Competence certification is awarded by the body that administers the Quali-SIL scheme on the basis of the examination and the candidate's file; the course prepares for it without guaranteeing it.

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From 150 000 FCFA per participant

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