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Safety Instrumented Systems

As a part of its complete operational safety offering, GCM Consultants provides complete Safety Instrumented System (SIS) engineering services to help clients operate their installations safely and efficiently.

 

BENEFITS OF FUNCTIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT

  • Safe operation, incidents prevented
  • Risk brought and maintained to a tolerable level
  • Human, technical and operational factors considered
  • Specifications defined according to the best practices in the industry
  • Objective solutions meeting the recommendations
  • Test interval determined according to SIL calculation
  • Production benefits by uncovering embedded reliability and spurious trip issues
  • Meeting high standards in process safety after disaster reconstruction

TECHNICAL SERVICES IN SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS

  • Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Calculations
  • Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)
  • Instrument and logic solver selection
  • Shut-off valve actuator torque validation
  • SIS cradle-to-grave maintenance including SIF (Safety Instrumented Function) test procedures to be performed during commissioning and periodically (FAT, CAT, SAT)
  • SIS assessment
  • SIF modifications to meet required SIL
  • SIS Safety Lifecycle training   

GCM Consultants works with:

  • ANSI/ISA804.01 / IEC 61511 – SIS Functional Safety
  • CSA B149.3 – BMS : Burner Management System
  • ASME/UG-140B Sect. VIII, Div. 1 – Equipment Integrity
  • Law C-21 – Criminal Liability for Workplace Safety

Software according to our client’s preference:

  • exSILentia, Isograph Reliability Workbench (FaultTree+), Microsoft

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Functional Safety Professional (FSP, TÜV)
  • Certified Functional Safety Professional (CFSP, CFSE Governance Board)
  • SIS Fundamentals Specialist (SFS, ISA84)

Our safety instrumented systems experts

Denis Pépin

Denis Pépin

Senior Engineer - Instrumentation and control
François Marchi

François Marchi

Senior Engineer - Instrumentation and Control
Stéphane Forgues

Stéphane Forgues

Senior Engineer - Instrumentation and Control

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