In San Antonio, Emerson Exchange 2010 featured a new Meet the Experts concept that provides participants to interact with recognized experts on focused topics. Emerson’s Mike Boudreaux provided a 2 hour session on Safety Lifecycle Management. This was an interactive short seminar that has been designed to help business leaders and managers in the process industries have a general understanding of existing industry standards and best practices for safety instrumented systems. This seminar provides a practical overview of the safety lifecycle, including key considerations for each phase. In addition to the typical design concepts related to safety instrumented functions and safety integrity levels, important concepts such as organizational design, competency management, planning, and continuous verification will be discussed. Part 3 introduces the concept of safety lifecycle management and explains how organization structure, competency management, and other safety management systems can improve protection against systematic failures of a safety instrumented system.

1. Safety Lifecycle Management

2. The IEC 61511 Safety lifecycle

3. Safety Lifecycle Management

4. Functional Safety Management

7. Competency management

8. Documentation structure and control

9. Configuration management

11. CompetencyRequirements

13. Activity / phase objectives Safety Requirements Specification Process Hazards Analysis Safety Management System

14. Verify

15. Source: IEC 61511-1, Figure 12 – Software development lifecycle (the V-Model)

17. Safety Life-cycle Structure and Planning

18. Safety Lifecycle Planning

19. Verification Planning

20. Safety life-cycle structure

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