The year's flying by with little more than two months remaining! Last chance to sign up for process safety training classes in Charlotte in November and Napa in December! In Charlotte during November, we have training on Process Safety Management, PHA Revalidation, and PHA/HAZOP Leadership. Napa courses in December include Human Error Prevention, Incident Investigation/Root [...]
OK, summer doesn't OFFICIALLY begin until June 21st, but we all know the Memorial Day weekend is the REAL beginning of summer! And there's no better time to sign up for summertime process safety training courses from Process Improvement Institute, the risk and reliability specialists! Here's the summer schedule by month, location, and course offering: [...]
For your immediate review, please download the latest free resource paper from PII, titled Best Practices for Writing Operating Procedures and Trouble-Shooting Guides, co-written by William G. Bridges, PII President, and Revonda Tew, PII Principal Engineer & Instructor, and being presented today at the 13th Global Congress on Process Safety in San Antonio, Texas. http://www.process-improvement-institute.com/_downloads/Best_Practices_for_Writing_Operating_Procedures_and_TS_Guides_2017_R3.pdf [...]
Process Improvement Institute, Inc. (PII) has 15 experts on staff (each with over 25 years of industry experience; including 10 to 35 years of process safety experience) who teach PSM, PHA Leadership, MOC, LOPA, Procedure Writing, and other specific courses on process safety, as well as Human Factors. You can attend publicly available courses or [...]
One critical defect in the SIL standards (and technical reports from ANSI/ISA 84 committees) to remember is they do NOT account for specific human errors of mis-calibration (especially critical for SIFs with multiple sensor) and or leaving in bypass. So, the PFD to use for the IPL is the PFD(avg) from the SIL verification calc [...]
