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Functional Safety

In any automated system there is a requirement to ensure that if the system fails it will not harm personnel because of the system failure. To achieve an acceptable level of functional safety, several issues need to be considered as part of the normal design process. These issues are considered to be requirements in these international standards. 

The Safety Lifecycle is an engineering process that contains all the steps needed to achieve high levels of functional safety during conception, design, operation, maintenance of instrumentation and control systems

The following presents an overview of functional safety

Instrumented Safety Lifecycle

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The above model is reproduced from IEC61511 and shows the safety lifecycle phases indicating verification planning and the lifecycle stages requiring Functional Safety Assessment

 

 

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