SIL Verification and Calculation (IEC 61511)

Why do you need this SIL Verification and Calculation workshop?

Imagine your company has been working on a major project and it’s now time to prove that the safety instrumented functions that you’ve designed, meet all the requirements of IEC 61511.

• How do you do that?
• How do you know your people did the work according to the standard?
• And, crucially, how do you prove this to your customer?

This course will help you streamline your SIL verification processes. It will teach you how to demonstrate that SIFs are SIL compliant. This course will make the difference for you:

• It will show your customers that your are competent in SIL Verification and SIL Calculation
• It will give you a better position within your company and thus job security
• It might even give you a higher salary, since you will be more qualified then others.

Course objective

Following the Risknowlogy program will ensure that your safety engineers do the work correctly. And if the work is done correctly, by competent people, then we at Risknowlogy can certify the work you’ve done quickly and easily. You know you did it right, we know you did it right and your customer knows you did it right too.

The objective of the course is to give Functional Safety Professionals in depth and practical experience of SIL Verification and Calculation according to IEC 61511 and is the next stage in their professional development.

Delegates who successfully complete the post-course case studies will have their competence certified. And, when you are certified, if you follow the program developed by Risknowlogy for SIL Verification and Calculation, you can get your next project assessed and certified through the Risknowlogy Functional Safety Certification.

Course information

• Course dates: See our public schedule, in-house training available upon request
• Course and case study material language: English
• Course instruction language: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Duration: 2 days + post-course case studies

Get Your Personal Certificate

Risknowlogy offers the opportunity to get your competence in SIL Verification and Calculation certified. In order to achieve certification the following eligibility requirements apply:

• Delegates need to be certified Functional Safety Professionals, Functional Safety Engineer, FSEng, or Functional Safety Expert
• Delegates need to follow this course
• Delegates need to submit the post-course case studies for approval

Prerequisites

You can attend this course if you are a certified Functional Safety Professional.

What will this course cover

The course will cover:

• Introduction to SIS and Verification
• Introduction to SIL Verification
• The safety function
• Safety requirements specification
• Architecture and hardware
• PFDavg and PFH calculations
• Application software and device configuration/parametrization
• Basic safety & user documentation
• Validation (FAT, iFAT, and SAT)
• Risknowlogy Certification Program

What you will get

All delegates receive:

• An invoice before the course starts (ha ha)
• The course material in printed format
• Access to our online Calculation Tool during the course (valid for 1 month following the course)
• A Risknowlogy Certificate of Completion
• Upon successful completion of the post-course case study, a Risknowlogy certificate and a listing on our website
• The Risknowlogy certification is valid for life
• The Risknowlogy certification is recognized world wide