Functional Safety Assessments
Improve Plant Safety with a Comprehensive FSA
A functional safety assessment (FSA) will assess and judge the functional safety of your facility’s safety instrumented systems (SIS) and other protection layers. A well-designed and effective SIS will detect dangerous process conditions and automatically respond to prevent or mitigate a hazardous event or failure.
Our team supports every stage of a safety system’s lifecycle. We will evaluate the reliability and effectiveness of your SIS and provide practical recommendations to help you maintain compliance with IEC 61511.
We conduct a comprehensive FSA to provide independent verification audits that will ensure your SIS is achieving the required performance. We work with you to enhance safety and mitigate potential failures.
Why Choose Equity for a Functional Safety Assessment
Regulatory Compliance
The results of an FSA will measure the functional safety performance achieved by the SIS and/or other protection layers and determine whether they are aligned with IEC 61511.
Evidence-Based Investigation
Our team conducts evidence-based investigations to provide recommendations that demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of your SIS performance and compliance.
Review of Safety Lifecycle
We thoroughly conduct all five stages of the FSAs required throughout the SIS safety lifecycle and consider the conclusions and recommendations from past assessments to enhance the effectiveness of our assessment.
Management of Functional Safety
We help implement functional safety management under the existing Process Safety Management (PSM) program. Our extensive offerings provide mechanical integrity, quality assurance, training, and more, ensuring a holistic approach to safety.
Customization
Each facility has a unique set of operational and production challenges that require a personalized approach to functional safety. We know that one size does not fit all, so we customize our FSA approach to your facility, system, and the needs of your team.
Proactive Risk Management
Equity pioneered risk-based inspection (RBI) and integrates a risk-based approach into all FSA consulting projects. Integrating a variety of proactive risk management strategies will help mitigate incidents and accidents.
Continuous Improvement
We recognize that safety systems evolve with changing technologies and industry best practices; thus, we are committed to continuous improvement by offering ongoing support, monitoring, and reassessment.
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Instrumentation, Controls, & Electrical Engineering Expertise
Equity’s Instrumentation, Controls, & Electrical Engineering Team combines industry experience with a multidisciplinary approach to support your system program improvements and modernization goals.
Our experts:
- Field and plant experience in oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical, food & beverage processing, and commercial facilities
- Certified Functional Safety Professionals (CFSPs) and IEC 51611 experts
- Provide technical expertise in the field for new installations, turnarounds, and safety system validations and proof testing
- Have broad experience with applying instrumentation technology, communication protocols, using device diagnostics, and implementing alarm management systems
- Active members of IEEE, ISA, and API SOICS
