Safety Critical Systems Handbook

Electrical, electronic and programmable electronic systems increasingly carry out safety functions to guard workers and the public against injury or death and the environment against pollution. The international functional safety standard IEC 61508 was revised in 2010 and this is the first comprehensive guide available to the revised standard. As Functional Safety is applicable to many industries, this book will have a wide readership beyond the chemical and process sector, including oil and gas, power generation, nuclear, aircraft, and automotive industries, plus project, instrumentation, design, and control engineers. This is the only comprehensive guide to IEC 61508, updated to cover the 2010 amendments, that will ensure engineers are compliant with the latest process safety systems design and operation standards. It helps readers understand the process required to apply safety critical systems standards. Real world approach helps users to interpret the standard, with case studies and best practice design examples throughout.

ISBN 0080967817   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780080967813 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 739 Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology   Published in Oxford Imprint Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd   Previous ISBN 9780750662697 Format Hardback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 08 Nov 2010   Width (mm) 191 DEWEY 363.1162094   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC23   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		A quick overview
		The 2010 version of IEC 61508
		Acknowledgements
PART A		THE CONCEPT OF SAFETY INTEGRITY		1
Chapter 1		The Meaning and Context of Safety Integrity Targets		3
1.1		Risk and the Need for Safety Targets		4
1.2		Quantitative and Qualitative Safety Targets		7
1.3		The Life-cycle Approach		10
		Section 7.1 of Part 1		10
1.4		Steps in the Assessment Process		13
Step 1		Establish Functional Safety Capability (i.e. Management)		13
Step 2		Establish a Risk Target		13
Step 3		Identify the Safety Related Function(s)		14
Step 4		Establish SILs for the Safety-related Elements		14
Step 5		Quantitative Assessment of the Safety-related System		14
Step 6		Qualitative Assessment Against the Target SILs		14
Step 7		Establish ALARP		14
1.5		Costs		15
1.5.1		Costs of Applying the Standard		15
1.5.2		Savings from Implementing the Standard		16
1.5.3		Penalty Costs from not Implementing the Standard		16
1.6		The Seven Parts of IEC 61508		16
Chapter 2		Meeting IEC 61508 Part 1		21
2.1		Establishing Integrity Targets		22
2.1.1		The Quantitative Approach		22
2.1.2		LOPA (Levels of Protection Analysis)		30
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