Functional Safety from Scratch

Dr. Peter Clarke is a graduate of the University of Oxford and Durham University in the UK. Originally from a chemistry background, he worked in biotech R&D for 5 years before spending 3 years in the UK fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industry in process and safety management roles. He subsequently moved into safety consultancy, where he has extensive experience in process risk management in oil & gas, petrochemical, semiconductors and energy. He has facilitated a considerable number of HAZOP, SIL assessment, LOPA and alarm management studies, in addition to Safety Case, Fault Tree, ALARP and HAZID. Dr. Clarke is the founder and Managing Director of xSeriCon, a consultancy, software and training firm based in Hong Kong and the UK. xSeriCon specialises in Process Hazards Analysis and functional safety. He holds the CFSE certificate, as well as a professional qualification in Occupational Safety & Health, and is a Chartered Chemist.

1. Introduction to functional safety 2. IEC 61511 basics 3. Measuring risk 4. Introduction to SIL assessment 5. SIL assessment methodology 6. SIL assessment: Special topics 7. Key functional safety documents 8. Safety instrumented system design 9. Meeting SIL requirements: SIL verification 10. Assurance of functional safety 11. The SIS operational phase