Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) and “Soft” Controls are those parts of your plant that prevent a major incident or that mitigate its consequences. These typically include devices such as emergency trips, pressure relief valves, critical operating alarms, safety instrumented systems and critical management systems such as emergency response procedures or permit to work. For safe operations, you need to be sure that all of these devices are being cared for and monitored so that they are suitable throughout the life of the facility. Control verification is a critical part of a facilities risk assurance program.
All controls must undergo both design/suitability verification and in-situ verification.
| Initial Suitability Verification | |
| Safety assessment | Hazard identification, risk assessment, identification of safety functions |
| Safety Design | Protection layers, C&E, protection functions, SCEs, barriers, P&ID, performance standards |
| Engineering Design | Device selection, SIS design, detail design |
| Fabrication | Manufacture, assembly, FAT |
| Installation | Construction, SAT, commissioning, handover |
| In-Situ Verification | |
| Operating tests | Routine tests, periodic exercises |
| Maintenance | Planned and corrective maintenance |
| Impairment | Planned response to failure of a control measure |
| Modification | Management of change, initial suitability of changes |
| Safety Management System | Performance monitoring, audit, review |
Safety Solutions can perform an independent verification assessment of your critical controls as part of your risk assurance program.
Contact us to discuss any control verification requirements you may have.
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