Common cause and common sense, designing failure out of your safety instrumented systems (SIS)

ISA Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-299

  Summers, Angela E ^a   Raney, Glenn ^a  

^a Premier Consulting+Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE (CCF); SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS (SIS); SAFETY INTEGRITY LEVEL (SIL);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0033283965     PISSN: 00190578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-0578(99)00017-8     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. ANSI/ISA-S84.01-1996, Application of safety instrumented systems for the process industries, Instrument Society of America S84.01 Standard, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, February 1996.
2. IEC 1508, 65A/255/CDV, Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety related systems - part 6: Guidelines to the application of parts 2 and 3, International Electrotechnical Commission, Draft, 13 April 13, 1998.
3. Common-cause failures in relation to programmable electronic systems used for protection, A. M. Wray, Health and Safety Laboratory, Report to IEC 1508 Committee, August 1996.
4. ISA TR84.0.02, Safety instrumented systems (SIS) - safety integrity level (SIL) evaluation techniques, part 1: Introduction, Version 4, Draft, March 1998.
5. A.E. Summery, G. Raney, common cause and common sense - designing failure out of your SIS, in: Proceedings of the ISA Expo 98, 19-22 October, Houston, Texas, 1998.