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Advanced Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Selection (EC52)

Length: 2 days
CEU Credits: 1.4
Course Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
(Except Morristown, NJ location classes are 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Columbia, IL location is 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Certificate Program: $1,295 ISA Members; $1,395 List

This course is required for the ISA84 SIL Selection Specialist Certificate Program

Description:

This course is a follow on to EC50 (Safety Instrumented Systems—Design, Analysis, and Justification). It focuses on further hands-on examples of Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination using a variety of different techniques. Students will be better able to save their companies time and money through the optimization of system performance requirements.

This course is required for the ISA84 Safety Instrumented Systems Certificate Program 2. You can register for the course only or for the certificate program which includes course and exam. If you are registering for the certificate program, you should complete an application and document eligibility criteria to sit for the certificate exam prior to taking the course. ISA Course Safety Instrumented Systems—Design, Analysis, and Justification (EC50) or Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis & Justification (EC50E) is a prerequisite for this course.

Those who successfully complete this course and pass the exam receive the designation of ISA84 SIL Selection Specialist (ISA84 SSS)

You will be able to:

Develop and implement different SIL selection techniques within your organization, including the risk matrix, risk graph, and LOPA (Layer Of Protection Analysis), in order to determine the appropriate level of performance needed of your safety systems. This will prevent you from over or under designing the system requirements and will save your organization time and money.

You will cover:

• Prevention of system requirements over or under design
• Determination of the appropiate level of performance needed for your safety systems
• Safety Integrity Level (SIL) selection hands-on examples: 3-Dimensional Risk Matrix | Risk Graph | LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) | Modified (implicit) LOPA

Classroom/Laboratory Exercises:

• The course consists of multiple application exercises of safety integrity level selection.
• Students are encouraged to bring their own examples to cover in class.

Course Prerequisites:

• EC50 or EC50E
• If applying for ISA84 Certificate 2: ISA84 SIL Selection Specialist (ISA84 SSS), must meet eligibility requirements

• A hand-held/scientific calculator should be brought to class

If you wish to register offline, download the Training Registration Form, complete, and return to ISA with your payment.

Not sure this particular course is for you?
A pre-instructional survey is available for you to evaluate your level of understanding of the course material and to show you the types of questions you'll be able to answer after completing the course.

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