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Partial Stroke Testing with Positioners and/or Logic Solvers

Processing plants contain many valves that perform safety functions that we hope need never be used in earnest. Such use means that something has gone wrong...

Published April 11, 2014 by Ken Bingham under Functional Safety Engineering

Operational Risk Management

Measuring your plant's risk exposure and keeping it operating in the 'safe range' is made easy by using techniques such as contingency planning and utilizing ACM's SafeGuard software designed as a user-friendly decision tool for process operators.

Published April 11, 2014 by Ken Bingham and Patrick Fisher under SafeGuard Sentinel

Risk Analysis: The Understandable Version

Risk analysis uses probability and statistics to determine how safely an industrial process will perform. In other words, risk analysis discovers existing probable risk in a process, and how many risk reduction safeguards are required.

Published April 11, 2014 under Risk Consulting Services

General Safety Requirement Considerations for LV Motor Starters

A Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) may be typically required to shut-off electrical equipment such as pump, compressor motors, etc., to protect or avoid unwanted dangerous events and reduce a specific risk to an acceptable level.

Published April 11, 2014 under Functional Safety Engineering

Risk Performance Indicator

In response to major process industry disasters, regulatory agencies are increasing their demands of industry to provide forward looking indicators for process safety. To respond to these pressures, industry needs clearly defined qualitative process safety indicators which are predictive and are not based on analysis of past hazardous events.

Published April 11, 2014 under SafeGuard Sentinel

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