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How to acquire SIS expertise
How to acquire SIS expertise

One of the key indicators of competency besides experience is training. This article discusses some of the training options available to develop skills in SIS engineering, and to help engineers become competent in this area to meet the requirements of IEC 61511.
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Explosion, fire injures 37 at Exxon Mobil refinery in Texas
Explosion, fire injures 37 at Exxon Mobil refinery in Texas

Many workers suffered minor burns as a result of the explosion at the Houston-area facility.
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Safety Engineering Meets Behavioral Science | Automation World
Safety Engineering Meets Behavioral Science | Automation World

Technological advances might require safety engineers and machine operators to rethink safety needs. Our latest survey reveals how the human side...
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Diagnostics effects on SILs and spurious trips
Diagnostics effects on SILs and spurious trips

How reliability data validation (RDV) should be applied to properly determine if safety system devices are individually capable of satisfying the target safety integrity level (SIL) rating, and verify if the whole safety system implementation performs according to design.
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Layer of Protection Analysis: Key points to improve a layperson’s understanding
Layer of Protection Analysis: Key points to improve a layperson’s understanding

PM Group's Richard Coffey outlines a number of points to help improve communication and provide a better understanding of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) among safety professionals, operations personnel and production managers
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Philadelphia Energy Solutions files for bankruptcy after refinery fire
Philadelphia Energy Solutions files for bankruptcy after refinery fire

Philadelphia Energy Solutions filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the co...
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The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems - Chemical Engineering
The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems - Chemical Engineering

A safety instrumented system (SIS) is important to ensure the safe operation of a plant. The SIS requires up-to-date sensors — recent developments in vortex flowmeters are presented here
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Safety & Security – The last line of defence is restored
Safety & Security – The last line of defence is restored

Safety in process plants extends to mitigating the effect of any plant failure. Considerable efforts are made to protect people, the environment and plant assets from damage caused by the plant. Safety is a balance between the residual risk of damage and the effort being taken to reduce such risk. In this article, Dr. Alexander…
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ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference To Focus On The Latest Automation And Manufacturing Technologies
ISA’s 2019 Process Industry Conference To Focus On The Latest Automation And Manufacturing Technologies

The best and brightest minds in the process industries will return to Houston this fall to present solutions to the most pressing challenges in...
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Manufacturers Can Make Safety a Profit Center | Automation World
Manufacturers Can Make Safety a Profit Center | Automation World

Schneider Electric outlines how the soon-to-be announced Safety Advisor technology, based on Triconex and EcoStruxure, will create a “profitable...
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Limits of LOPA
Limits of LOPA

Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis
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Combat Cybersecurity Threats To Process Safety
Combat Cybersecurity Threats To Process Safety

Poor management-of-change (MOC) procedures for industrial control systems have contributed to major catastrophes. The heightened emphasis on cybersecurity ratchets up the importance of effective MOC.
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