While the IEC's 61508/61511 standards define in much greater detail the full lifecycle of a safety instrumented system (SIS), it's useful to group SIS activities in three sets of continuous activities that are not unlike an athlete's drive to improve performance through repeated cycles of assessment and planning, training and maintenance. ABB, as a pioneer in the development of safety systems for industrial applications, has service operations on all continents and dedicated safety system teams around the world to support operating companies and engineering firms through all phases of the safety system lifecycle. This figure demonstrates the breadth and depth of their offering.
Assess
- Hazard and risk management
- Risk modeling
- Process safety management systems
- Behavioral safety and culture
- Process hazard reviews (PHR)
- Hazard & operability (HAZOP) studies
- Mechanical integrity and asset life assessment
- Determination of safety integrity level (SIL) requirements
- Computer hazard and operability (CHazop) analysis
- Hazardous area risk assessment and classification
- Environment impact assessment
- Occupied buildings risk assessment
Address
- Pressure relief design and calculations
- Safety instrumented system specifications
- Detailed design for up to SIL 3 requirements
- Safety instrumented system delivery
- Engineers with competence certified by TUV
- TUV-certified Safety Execution Centers around the world
- Functional safety management systems
- Comprehensive systems methodology and documentation
- Commissioning
- Validation
Maintain
- Reliability and operations improvement
- Modifications, upgrade management
- Brownfield project delivery
- 24/7 service level agreements
- TUV certified service organizations
- Functional safety management systems
- Performance assurance
- Testing and repairs
- Operating and maintenance procedures
- Training
- Organizational culture/change
- Human reliability assessment
- Safety critical procedure assessment
- Staffing levels and workload assessment
- Pre start-up safety review
- Legacy systems review
- Control room performance assessment
- Alarm management health check
- Management of change auditing
- Mechanical integrity auditing
- Incident investigation support
