No better way for a process safety expert to kick off the New Year than beef up training on back-to-back Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS/SIF/SIL) Courses from Process Improvement Institute in January, but time's running out to join both courses! These courses are being held online, so you still have [...]
Greetings virtual conference-goers, and welcome to the second day of the 2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety! Please note that Process Improvement Institute has one presentation on Tuesday, August 20th: (30b) Is Your SIF Trying to Do Too Much?: Arthur Dowell III (PII); 11:20 AM CDT. This is a [...]
We're about go into the last month of 2020, and even though many of us would like to get into the new year as fast as we can, December offers up the opportunity to beef up your process safety training with five great online course offerings from Process Improvement Institute! Human Error Prevention (12/7-12/8) This [...]
There's a new infographic poster in the Safety Instrumented System section of PII's Free Resources area, entitled A Proven Streamlined Approach to SIL Assessment Requirements. This infographic shows how to apply the qualitative definition of independent protection layers (IPLs) within the setting of a process hazard analysis (PHA) to get most of the gain from [...]
There's a new paper in the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) section of PII's Free Resources area, entitled SIL-3, SIL-2, and Unicorns (There Is a High Probability Your SIL 2 and SIL 3 SIFs Have No Better Performance Than SIL 1). This paper shows that specific human error during testing, calibration maintenance, and restoration of a [...]
