Additional Training Options
In addition to our Process Safety Training Center, you can get classroom training from Kenexis and the ISA on process safety. In most cases, our experts will also teach those courses.
We also offer some of our courses and customized courses privately to companies upon request.
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Customized Training
These Kenexis classes can be customized to meet your requirements and delivered online, at your facilities, or at your facilities in Houston, Texas or Columbus, Ohio.
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Description:
Traditional fire and gas detection system design techniques are often considered unsatisfactory due to their nature of being rule-of-thumb and experience oriented without any real ability to quantify risk. This has resulted in systems that are either over-designed or under-designed. The advent of the IEC 61511 standard caused a shift toward quantitative analysis for instrumented safeguard design, but failed to solve the fire and gas problem because it was not comprehensive enough to consider the real problem, detector coverage. After release of ISA TR 84.00.07, a comprehensive framework for performance-based fire and gas design established. This course describes the techniques recommended in the technical report, along with hands-on application of the techniques with associated software tools. The course includes a comprehensive case study that involves employing the Kenexis Effigy™ software to develop a complete performance-based design for a sample oil and gas production facility.
Objectives:
- Understand the scope of fire and gas engineering for process facilities and the myriad standards, regulations, and requirements
- Review the fire and gas system design methods and guidelines that are currently available and their strengths and limitations
- Understand the Safety Lifecycle (as per IEC 61511 and ISA TR 84.00.07) and how they can provide a framework for functional safety of Fire and Gas Systems
- Learn how to identify and define the fire and gas zones along with the associated hazards
- Understand quantitative consequence analysis and how it is employed in performance-based fire and gas system engineering
- Analyze the impact on overall risk of the consequence scenario and the beneficial effect of fire and gas systems using consequence integration and event tree analysis
- Apply statistical analysis, industry databases, and data integration techniques to assess the likelihood of fire and gas system relevant events
- Assess the tolerability of the risk posed by a process facility before and after application of fire and gas detection and suppression systems using risk integration techniques
- Experience the strengths and limitations of the technology options for fire and gas detection sensors through live fire demonstrations
- Apply fire detection coverage mapping and gas detection coverage hands-on using the Kenexis Effigy FGS fire and gas mapping software tool
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Description:
The online course provides an overview discussion of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and is designed as a refresher for participants. Layer of Protection Analysis. LOPA is an abbreviated methodology for quantifying the risk associated with process plant hazard scenarios. The methodology uses broad categories, including order of magnitude, consequence, initiating event likelihood, and the beneficial effect of protection layers, such as operator intervention, safety instrumented systems, physical relief devices, and mitigation and emergency response.
Objectives:
- Understand the safety instrumented system lifecycle
- Understand how hazards are assessed to ensure that tolerable risk is achieved
- Understand the concept of an independent protection layer
- Understand how required risk reduction is determined and allocated to independent protection layers
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Description:
Process safety management (PSM) is the process by which unexpected releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable materials in processes involving highly hazardous chemicals are prevented. In the United States, PSM is defined by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) regulation 29 CFR 1910.
This online training module provides an overview level presentation of PSM and the standards that define how PSM programs are developed and what they contain. The module begins a discussion of the origin of the standard, where it applies, and the authority under which it was created. The module then goes on to describe each of the fourteen elements of PSM, starting with Process Safety Information, moving through Process Hazards Analysis, and going on to Pre-Startup Safety Reviews, and much more. Upon completion of the module students will understand where PSM applies, and what is required to implement a compliant PSM program.
Objectives:
- Understand what the PSM rule is, why it was written, and what authority allowed for the creation and enforcement of the rule upon US industry
- Learn to determine what facilities are sections of facilities are covered by the PSM rule based on threshold quantities of highly hazardous chemicals
- Understand how facilities are broken down into monitored areas and how those areas are described in the overview section of each study
- Learn the fourteen (14) elements of the PSM rule and how they are implemented in industry
- Complete a pre-instructional survey, download and read supporting documentation, view lectures, and perform a post-instructional exam
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Description:
The Security PHA Review training module provides an in-depth explanation of the rigorous process for starting with a process risk analysis report, such as a hazards and operability study (HAZOP), and reviewing the document to determine the vulnerabilities that the equipment under study might have to cyber-attack, and then propose and document recommendations to either make the process inherently safe against cyber-attack or recommend an appropriate Security Level (SL) in accordance with the ISA/IEC 62443 standard.
Objectives:
- Provide background on cyber-attacks against industrial control systems
- Present an overview of the contents of the 62443
- Understand the limitations with existing cyber risk analysis processes
- Understand process hazard analysis
- Understand the SPR Study Process
- Discuss the range of non-hackable safeguards used in the process industries
- Review the attributes of 62443 security levels
- Review and perform SPR exercise problems
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Description:
The Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Verification training module provides a detailed presentation on the theory, equations, and concepts required to verify the achievement of target failure measures, typically average probability of failure on demand, of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). The training course presents a discussion of the different attributes that impact a SIF’s ability to achieve its performance targets along with the methods that are used to evaluate or calculate the variety of attributes that impact the overall capabilities of any individual SIF.
Objectives:
- Utilize instrument failure statistics to characterize safety performance
- Apply fundamental statistics, probability and reliability engineering to SIS design verification
- Perform SIL verification calculations
- Consider common cause failures, diagnostics, and test intervals in SIL verification
- Select appropriate equipment and architectures
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Description:
The Safety Requirements Specifications (SRS) training module provides a detailed presentation on the concepts and application of instrumentation and control design techniques that are required to prepare documentation that will become the basis of subsequent detailed design activities and ongoing management of change of a Safety Instrumented System. The training course presents a discussion of the requirements for conceptual and detailed design that are required to be documented. The training course will expand on these topics, presenting the requirements, explaining what the requirements mean, providing a number of different options that are available for fulfilling the requirements, and discussing the strengths and limitations of the options.
Objectives:
- Define specifications in the context of SIS engineering
- List safety requirements specifications (SRS) attributes
- Draw and tag SIS components on diagrams
- Prepare cause-and-effect diagrams for logic description
- Write safety instrumented function (SIF) descriptions
- Distinguish if BPCS and SIS separation is appropriate
- Incorporate diagnostics into SIS design
- Define additional requirements for energize-to-trip systems
- Determine when manual means of final element activation is required
- Describe the methods for bypassing SIS components
- Assess SIS components for the need for semi-automatic reset
- Determine valve leakage requirements
- Define requirements for SIS component response times
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Description:
The Safety Instrumented Systems – Management training modules provide a high-level discussion of what safety instrumented systems are and how they are employed in the process industries to reduce risk. The training course presents a discussion of what safety instrumented systems are and how they are different from basic process controls systems, provides an overview of why safety instrumented systems are employed – including a discussion of the associated legal and regulatory environment, and the presents the lifecycle for implementation of safety instrumented systems as presented in the IEC 61511 standard.
Objectives:
- Identify causes of accidents with SIS implications
- Understand philosophy of Layers of Protection
- Know steps in the Safety Lifecycle
- Understand Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) impact SIS Design
- Know what’s needed in a Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)
- Understand SIS Operation, Maintenance & Testing Requirements
ISA Training Courses
We work closely with the ISA to develop, teach, and market ISA classes. Kenexis teaches the following four classes for the ISA typically at our office in Houston, Texas. It is best to schedule your course through the ISA directly.
Learn more at https://www.isa.org
EC 50 – Safety Instrumented Systems – Design, Analysis, and Justification
SIS Fundamentals Specialist
This course focuses on the engineering requirements for the specification, design, analysis, and justification of safety instrumented systems for the process industries. Students will learn how to determine safety integrity levels (SILs) and evaluate whether proposed or existing systems meet the performance requirements. Learn More
EC 52 – Advanced Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Selection
SIL Selection Specialist
This course focuses on SIL hands-on examples of safety integrity level (SIL) determination using a variety of different techniques. Students will be better able to save their companies time and money through the optimization of system performance requirements. Learn More
EC 54 – Advanced Design and SIL Verification
SIL Verification Specialist Certificate #3
This course focuses on more detailed issues and further hands-on examples of system analysis/modeling. Students will be better able to perform system design and analysis, thus saving their companies time and money in optimizing system designs. Learn More
EC 56P – Fire and Gas System Engineering—Performance Based Methods for Process Facilities
The course describes the techniques recommended in ISA-TR84.00.07-2018 Guidance on the Evaluation of Fire, Combustible Gas and Toxic Gas System Effectiveness, along with hands-on use of the techniques and associated software tools. This course was designed for all audiences from high-level decision makers and users of Fire and Gas Systems (FGS) including a basic understanding of design techniques to a comprehensive case study that involves employing software to develop a complete performance-based design for a sample oil and gas production facility.
If you have attended the Kenexis online training session on Fire & Gas Mapping Class – LPG Special Emphasis (link), this would be an excellent course to enroll in as a next step. This class is provided by the International Society of Automation (ISA).