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4 Chapter 1 <strong>Safety</strong> Concepts<br />

SIS Factors<br />

SIL Factors<br />

According to the ANSI/ISA S84.01 and IEC 61508 standards, the scope of an SIS is restricted to<br />

the instrumentation or controls that are responsible <strong>for</strong> bringing a process to a safe state in the<br />

event of a failure. The availability of an SIS is dependent upon:<br />

• Failure rates and modes of components<br />

• Installed instrumentation<br />

• Redundancy<br />

• Voting<br />

• Diagnostic coverage<br />

• Testing frequency<br />

An SIL can be considered a statistical representation of the availability of a safety function at the<br />

time of a process demand. A process demand is defined as the occurrence of a process deviation<br />

that causes a safety function to transition a process to a safe state.<br />

An SIL is the litmus test of acceptable safety function design and includes the following factors:<br />

• Device integrity<br />

• Diagnostics<br />

• Systematic and common cause failures<br />

• Testing<br />

• Operation<br />

• Maintenance<br />

In modern applications, a programmable electronic system (PES) is used as the core of an SIS.<br />

The <strong>Trident</strong> controller is a state-of-the-art PES optimized <strong>for</strong> safety-critical applications.<br />

<strong>Safety</strong> <strong>Considerations</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Trident</strong> <strong>v2</strong> <strong>Systems</strong>

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