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About This Book: Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis

This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis". The book presents methods for applying quantitative risk analysis to select safety integrity levels for safety instrumented systems. It is based on international standards for these types of systems and expands upon the safety lifecycle framework. The goal is to explain safety integrity level selection in a clear and approachable way. The book is authored by two engineers from an automation consulting firm who help clients develop safety-critical solutions and perform process safety analyses.

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About This Book: Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis

This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis". The book presents methods for applying quantitative risk analysis to select safety integrity levels for safety instrumented systems. It is based on international standards for these types of systems and expands upon the safety lifecycle framework. The goal is to explain safety integrity level selection in a clear and approachable way. The book is authored by two engineers from an automation consulting firm who help clients develop safety-critical solutions and perform process safety analyses.

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Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis

About this Book


The material for this book was developed from a series of training courses
and seminars we have written and delivered over the past few years. The
Exida training course (which bears the same name as this book and is
co-sponsored by ISA under the catalog number EX-01) and numerous
related on-line courses provided a major source of material for this book
and also provided an outline for organizing its contents.
Much of the material in this book is based on the application of the
safety life cycle as it is described in the international standards ANSI/ISA-
84.01-1996-Application of Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process
Industry and IEC 61508/61511. This book expands upon the framework
developed in these standards. In addition to describing the tasks that
users should perform during the safety life cycle, this book also provides
detailed procedures for accomplishing these tasks. These procedures are
based on risk analysis and reliability engineering principles from a variety
of disciplines.
This book is intended to demonstrate the application of quantitative
risk analysis techniques and tools to the problem of selecting SILs. Its
goal is to bring this topic down to earth and explain it in a clear and
approachable way, distilling the essential theory into a format that the
practicing control systems engineer can apply quickly and effectively in
everyday work. This book is not intended to be a generic theoretical dis-
sertation, nor a comprehensive treatment of the topic of quantitative risk
analysis. It presents a focused process for applying simple, yet powerful,
tools of quantitative risk analysis specifically to the problem of selecting
SILs for safety instrumented systems.

About the Authors


Edward M. Marszal, P.E., C.F.S.E., and Dr. Eric W. Scharpf, MIPENZ, are
principal engineers and partners in Exida, an engineering consulting firm
that helps users and vendors of automation systems develop safety-criti-
cal and high-availability automation solutions. At Exida, both authors
are responsible for safety life cycle services for end users, including pro-
cess hazards analysis, SIL selection and verification, and functional safety
assessment of safety critical systems.
Mr. Marszal started his career with UOP, a licensor of process units
to the petroleum and petrochemical industries, where he performed
functional assessments of control and safety instrumented systems at
customer sites worldwide. At UOP, he designed and managed the devel-
opment of custom control and SIS projects. After leaving UOP, he joined
the Environmental Resource Management companies in their Business
Risk Solutions consulting group. In this position, he specialized in finan-
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