Course description
This module can be undertaken as an individual module or altogether as a package on the EI’s learning management system, with recorded presentations and exercises taught by a leading expert in process safety and a former deputy director of the UK Health & Safety Executive.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of specifying normal and safe operating limits,
- Describe how the determination of instrument and alarm systems is linked to operating parameters
- Understand the functional link with Operational procedures
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Training Course Content
Key Points to cover:
Purpose: To determine the safe operating margins to protect primary containment over the designated lifetime of the plant and equipment. To set thresholds of action / intervention for control systems and alarms.
Learning Points:
- Determination of information and control systems – functional safety, SIS and SIL
- Plant status information and action thresholds
- Aligned to primary containment failure or degradation modes
- Human factors taken into account in how maintenance of safety margins is achieved, and alarm set points designated
- Control logic should be clear and well communicated
- Reliable functioning during start up, operation and shutdown
- Capable of withstanding cyber attack
- Recorded and documented – PID, Functional Loops
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