TÜV Rheinland certified Functional Safety Experts and approved trainers

All training will be undertaken by a FS Expert (TÜV Rheinland) for the acc. application area Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) who have been approved by TÜV Rheinland to provider their training program.

Training Manuals

Training manuals containing all the presented material and exercise examples will be provided for each student.

Day 1 and the Morning of Day 2 Agenda

Objectives:

This section is intended to give participants an understanding of Functional Safety in line with the international IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards, and the role of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) in reducing process related risk.  They will be given a basic introduction to risk assessment so that they understand how Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) are established for SIS and how the SIL relates to risk reduction. The basic concepts of SIS subsystem design will be discussed to give an appreciation of how this is related to the SIL.

Content:

• An Introduction to Functional Safety and the Safety Lifecycle.
• A brief overview of the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards.
• The concept of process related hazards and associated risks.
• An overview of the approaches and objectives of risk assessment.
• Achieving risk reduction in line with ALARP principles.
• The role of Safety Instrumented Systems in risk reduction.
• The importance of testing and maintenance in Functional Safety Management.
• The basic concepts of SIS subsystem design.
• The relationships between SIS designs and testing requirements.
• Human factors and common cause failure issues.

The workshop will use numerous practical examples and team exercises drawn from real life experience to support understanding.

The Afternoon of Day 2 and Day 3 Agenda

Objectives:

To give participants a firm understanding of the good practice principles of testing techniques and procedures for the most common types of SIS subsystems in line with the international IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. To demonstrate how appropriate testing and maintenance is important to sustaining reliability. To learn how testing and maintenance should be recorded to enable better reliability analysis of hardware components used in SIS subsystems and how an optimised testing and maintenance regime improves plant safety and availability.

Content:

• SIS installation and commissioning.
• Overall SIS Validation.
• The Relationship between SIS testing, failures and reliability.
• Safe failure modes and dangerous failure modes.
• To understand and evaluate the effects of testing and maintenance on SIFs.
• Proof testing techniques for SIS, and associated operational constraints:
• Proof testing practices for measurement subsystems;
• Proof testing practices for final elements;
• Content of proof testing procedures;
• Format of proof testing procedures;
• Planning and scheduling;
• Proof test records.
• Partial closure testing of valves.
• Alarms and Diagnostics.
• Modifications and management of change.

Day 4 Agenda

A two part proficiency examination comprising:

• Part 1 - multiple choice questions
• Part 2 - written questions

The pass score criterion is 75% in both parts.

The last day consists of a four hour two-part examination with

Part 1: Multiple choice questions (60 marks available)

Part 2: Open written questions (40 marks available)

Course Approval Criteria
the pass score requirement is 75 %

Please note: Price is in accordance with the FS program minimum pricing policy from TÜV Rheinland and will depend on location, please contact KPC for more information.

Special prices are available for in-house, site and tailor made trainings.

Cost includes:

• Course material
• Registration fees and FS Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) certificate (If requirements are fulfilled and the pass mark is achieved.)
• Any required stationary ,Refreshments and Lunch (however the last day (exam day) there is no lunch foreseen as every participants is allowed to leave once he/she completed the exam)