Safety Track
Protection of life, limb, and property is a daily concern to anyone working in automation and control environments. Even with the sophisticated technology available today, calamities such as plant explosions, gas and oil leaks, mining disasters, and environmental emergencies still occur far too often.
Avoiding gas leaks, fires, structural failures, and other types of industrial accidents is the goal in every hazardous environment—and every environment is hazardous without safety standards, training, and regulatory precautions. Getting the plant back on line even after a minor incident is costly in time, materials, and lost opportunity.
ISA Automation Week wouldn’t be complete without a technical track devoted to topics such as alarm management, safety instrumented systems, fire and gas detection, maintenance, test and measurement, boiler safety, and management of safety-related projects. This track is designed to be a learning tool for those following any career path —because safety is everyone’s responsibility.
Technical Sessions devoted to Safety:
- Identification of Required Shutdowns—Procedures and Legal Implications
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Management Academia/R&D/Scientist
Open Q&A with a panel of end users, safety consultants, and legal authorities discussing the process of identifying required safety instrumented functions with a focusing on PHA & LOPA as a design tool and legal implications. - Safety Field Bus for the Process Industry
Tuesday, 5 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Open Q&A with a panel of experts representing different “bus” communication technologies available for use in the process industry. - Field Instrumentation—Proof Testing and Validation of Your Reliability Data
Tuesday, 5 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician
What is the objective of proof testing? Demonstrate that a SIF works as expected or…try to reveal any failures not revealed during normal operation? If the function works as expected does that means all failures have been detected, what kind of coverage can one claim for a proof test? During this workshop a team of experts will discuss how reliability predictions are made based on a number of conditions including, diagnostic coverage, calibration, set point selection and environmental conditions. - Alarm Management and the Functional Safety Lifecycle
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Management
Operator overloading with alarms is a major problem that results from increased automation in the industry. The introduction of layer of protection analysis results in increased claims for operators being a layer of protection. To effectively use operators as protection layers, alarm rationalization is a must. This tutorial will relate alarm management and functional safety and provide an introduction to the ISA S18 standard. - SIS/Alarm Management Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
This roundtable/panel discussion will be an open question and answer session with 5 experienced expert and active members of the ISA84/ISA18 committees. The panelists represent major end users, consultants, and engineering/construction firms. There is no need to be bored with yet another basic presentation that you’ve probably already heard! Come play hardball with the experts! Ask questions that you won’t get answered anywhere else. - What’s Up with SIS?
Wednesday, 6 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist Marketing
With over 20 years of work, you would think that the ISA 84 committee would be done with issuing standards and guidance on using instrumentation and controls in safety applications. But, new technology and improved practices ensure that the committee remains very active. This tutorial will discuss draft standard ISA 84.91.01, expected changes to ISA 84.00.01, the latest efforts on technical reports, and their impact on you. - Fire & Gas (F&G) System Design—Performance Based Modeling for your Mitigation Layer
Thursday, 7 October 8:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician
This interactive workshop shall focus on the selection of the most appropriate fire & gas detector technology for various design scenarios and applying performance based techniques in the design of fire & gas systems with small breakout groups covering example exercises. Groups will then compare and discuss their results. - Safety Application Workshop—Guidance on Identifying Safety Instrument Functions (SIF) on Your Burner Management System (BMS)
Thursday, 7 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician
This interactive workshop shall focus on applying performance based techniques to both burner management and fire and gas applications with small breakout groups covering example exercises with groups and then comparing and discussing their results.
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