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IEC 61508 is an international standard that sets requirements for electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic safety systems to ensure they are designed, implemented, operated and maintained to provide the required safety integrity level. It defines four safety integrity levels based on the risks involved, with the highest level, SIL4, protecting against the greatest risks. The standard has seven parts that cover general requirements, requirements for components, software requirements, definitions, methods for determining safety integrity levels, guidelines for application, and an overview of techniques.

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Baseefa ATEX Certification Services

IEC 61508 is an international standard that sets requirements for electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic safety systems to ensure they are designed, implemented, operated and maintained to provide the required safety integrity level. It defines four safety integrity levels based on the risks involved, with the highest level, SIL4, protecting against the greatest risks. The standard has seven parts that cover general requirements, requirements for components, software requirements, definitions, methods for determining safety integrity levels, guidelines for application, and an overview of techniques.

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IEC 61508 - Safety Systems

IEC/EN 61508 is the international standard for electrical, electronic and


programmable electronic safety related systems. It sets out the requirements
for ensuring that systems are designed, implemented, operated and
maintained to provide the required safety integrity level (SIL). Four SILs are
defined according to the risks involved in the system application, with SIL4
being used to protect against the highest risks.
IEC 61508 is the base standard for EN 50495 Safety Devices for ATEX.

The standard is in seven parts:

IEC 61508-1, General requirements


IEC 61508-2, Requirements for E/E/PE safety-related systems
IEC 61508-3, Software requirements
IEC 61508-4, Definitions and abbreviations
IEC 61508-5, Examples and methods for the determination of safety integrity
levels
IEC 61508-6, Guidelines on the application of IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3
IEC 61508-7, Overview of techniques and measures

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