Overview

Safety Integrity Level (SIL) rated protective systems need to be tested to prove that they not only meet the requirements of the Safety Requirements Specification, but also that they act in the expected manner, at the expected set points and produce the expected results.

This technical talk will present a testing methodology which meets the requirements of the functional safety standards, BS EN IEC61511 and IEC61508.  

Speaker

Nick Howard, TÜV Rheinland

Nick is a safety engineering consultant and the Director of 6 Engineering Limited, with a BEng Chemical Engineering degree from Teesside University and a Master’s degree in Environmental Technology. Nick is a functional safety engineer with a background in Process Engineering and more recently Process Safety Engineering. He has tested/witnessed testing of over 60 SIL protective systems and has prepared over 110 test procedures on a number of different types of sensor and final element technologies.