Functional Safety 2014

Disclaimer:

The content in this paper is loosely based on experiences, and have been embellished to bring out the salient points

against the objectives of this paper.

References

IEC 61511 International Standard, Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process

industry sector – Part 1, 2 and 3, International Electrotechnical Commission

API Recommended Practice 14C, Recommended Practice for Analysis, Design, Installation, and Testing of

Basic Surface Safety Systems for Offshore Production Platforms, American Petroleum Institute

Author

obert (Bob) Nicol

Nicol Instrument Engineering Limited

Bob has been in the process industry, mainly oil and gas, for over 46 years. He has held roles with design

engineering contractors and end users at engineering or senior engineering roles, consultant, technical

authority and subject matter expert.

Whilst IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 are relatively new standards and now considered good practice, all

career roles have has some form of Functional safety to some standard.

List of companies worked for includes; BP, Shell, Crawford and Russell Inc., Ralph M Parsons, Borg

Warner, Smith and Taylor, South Scotland Electricity board.