Yokogawa Europe B.V. - The Netherlands

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TÜV Certified Functional Safety Engineer - Safety Instrumented Systems

Course objective

The objective is to provide instrument engineers, application engineers, site engineers, project managers, operation engineers, maintenance engineers and all those who are involved in the design, realisation, maintenance and operation of safety systems with elementary and necessary knowledge about functional safety, based on the international standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.


Course information

Duration:    
3.5 days

-    The first two days is the training program: 09:00–12:00, 13:00–17:00
-    Third day in the morning is the training program: 09:00–12:00
-    Third day in the afternoon is the opportunity to ask questions (optional)
-    Fourth day in the morning is the examination – 4 hours (maximum)


Price:    
€ 1.950.00 per participant

-    Including course material
-    Including fee for examination
-    Including lunch


Participant eligibility requirements
In accordance with TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Program.

-    A minimum of 3 years experience in the field of functional safety.
-    Bachelor degree as a minimum or equivalent engineer level responsibilities status as certified by the
     employer.
-    Filled out eligibility forms must be sent in two weeks before training date at the latest.


Trainers
Three trainers have been certified as TÜV Functional Safety Expert

- Mr. Jeff Beijk
- Mr. Bonne Hoekstra
- Mr. Arian Slagt

Language
English

- Alternatively Dutch

Examamination
Rules

-    Prerequisite to do the examination is that the applicant has to attend Yokogawa's training course “TÜV
     Functional Safety Engineer SIS”.
-    Pass score is 75%.
-    There are 60 multiple (3) choice questions. At the most 2 good answers per question are possible, which is
      indicated if applicable. The answers will be valued as follows:
 

 -    There are 7 safety cases. The maximum points to be earned per case are mentioned.
 -    The examination questions and exercises will be handed over at the start of the examination.
 -    It is not allowed to bring any documents or (hand held) pc to the exam.
 -    It is not allowed to take any documents or notices from the exam.
 -    Check of the examination results will be done by two functional safety experts of Yokogawa.
 -    Counter check will be done by TÜV Rheinland.
 -    Discussion about the results is not possible.
 -    Applicants who succeed will receive their certificate from TÜV Rheinland, which may take some weeks.

Re-examination - for those who did not pass the examination
-    Within one year after a failed examination, applicants may sign up once for another examination, free
      of charge.
-    If applicants sign up for attending the training course again, they have to pay full course price.

Location:
at various Yokogawa premises world wide
-     Alternatively in house trainings at customer premises can be organized.


Schedule:    
locations and dates will be published on the TÜV website (tuvasi.com)   
-    Also available on Yokogawa website.
-    Registration for attending the training will be closed two weeks before training date.


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Ms. Natascha Fannan-Rothe

Course agenda overview

Day 1

Morning 09:00 - 12:00

- General Introduction

Module 1: Introduction to Functional Safety
- What is safety?
- Why safety?
- What is a safety system?
- Position of SIS in the total equipment under control

Module 2: International safety standards IEC 61508 and 61511
- The five main pillars of the standards


Afternoon 13:00 - 17:00

Module 3: HAZOP - SIF - SIL
- Hazard and risk assessment
- Determine Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF)
- Determine Safety Integrity Levels (SIL)
- Group exercises

Day 2

Morning 09:00 - 12:00

Module 4: Safety Engineering
- De-energize To Safe state (DTS)
- Energize To Safe state (ETS)
- Redundancy
- Safety architectures
- Reliability modeling (Reliability Block Diagram - RBD)
- Group exercise on RBD
- Sensor validation
- Overrides - by-passes - inhibits
- Process safety time and system response time
- Logic Solver architectures


Afternoon 13:00 - 17:00

Module 5: Functional Safety Management
- Implications for organizations involved throughout the safety life cycle

Module 6: Failures and Hardware Fault Tolerance
- Random hardware failures and their modes
- Failure mode effect analysis
- Safe Failure Fraction (SFF)
- Hardware Fault Tolerance (HFT)
- Group exercise on HFT


Day 3

Morning 09:00 - 12:00

Module 7: Common cause influences and other failure types
- The beta factor
- Systematic failures
- Human Failures

Module 8: Safety calculations
- Safety parameters
- Formulas
- Proof testing
- Group exercises on PFD average calculations


Afternoon 13:00 - 17:00

Session for your questions
- The attendance of this session is optional
- Opportunity to do more exercised (optional)
- time for self study

Day 4

Morning 09:00 - 13:00

Examination

- 60 Multiple choice questions
- 7 Cases
- those who have finished may leave earlier.