This document provides information about a 3.5 day training course and examination to become a TÜV Functional Safety Engineer in Safety Instrumented Systems according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. The course is taught by three certified TÜV Functional Safety Experts and provides elementary knowledge about functional safety. Participants who pass the examination will receive a TÜV Rheinland certificate valid for 5 years. The certificate can be renewed by submitting work experience and paying a renewal fee to maintain certification for another 5 year period.
This document provides information about a 3.5 day training course and examination to become a TÜV Functional Safety Engineer in Safety Instrumented Systems according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. The course is taught by three certified TÜV Functional Safety Experts and provides elementary knowledge about functional safety. Participants who pass the examination will receive a TÜV Rheinland certificate valid for 5 years. The certificate can be renewed by submitting work experience and paying a renewal fee to maintain certification for another 5 year period.
This document provides information about a 3.5 day training course and examination to become a TÜV Functional Safety Engineer in Safety Instrumented Systems according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. The course is taught by three certified TÜV Functional Safety Experts and provides elementary knowledge about functional safety. Participants who pass the examination will receive a TÜV Rheinland certificate valid for 5 years. The certificate can be renewed by submitting work experience and paying a renewal fee to maintain certification for another 5 year period.
This document provides information about a 3.5 day training course and examination to become a TÜV Functional Safety Engineer in Safety Instrumented Systems according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. The course is taught by three certified TÜV Functional Safety Experts and provides elementary knowledge about functional safety. Participants who pass the examination will receive a TÜV Rheinland certificate valid for 5 years. The certificate can be renewed by submitting work experience and paying a renewal fee to maintain certification for another 5 year period.
Yokogawa Safety Instrumented Systems Yokogawa Europe Solutions IEC 61508 / IEC 61511 Electric Corporation The Netherlands Tokyo, Japan
Its a safe world after all
Yokogawa Yokogawa Corporation of America Engineering Asia Houston, USA Singapore
A three and a half days training course with examination.
Students who pass the examination will receive the TV Rheinland certificate:
TV FS Engineer They may apply the TV logo on their business card Yokogawa Training Course TV Functional Safety Engineer page 2 of 5 Update: 2009-07-27
Yokogawa Europe B.V. The Netherlands
TV Certified Functional Safety Engineer Safety Instrumented Systems
Course objective The objective is to provide instrument engineers, application engineers, site engineers, project managers, operation engineers, maintenance engineers and all those who are involved in the design, realisation, maintenance and operation of safety systems with elementary and necessary knowledge about functional safety, based on the international standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.
Course information Duration: 3.5 days - The first two days is the training program: 09:0012:00, 13:0017:00 - Third day in the morning is the training program: 09:0012:00 - Third day in the afternoon is the opportunity to ask questions (optional) - Fourth day in the morning is the examination 4 hours (maximum)
Price: 1.950.00 per participant
- Including course material - Including fee for examination - Including lunch
Participant eligibility requirements: in accordance with TV Rheinland Functional Safety Program
- A minimum of 3 years experience in the field of functional safety. - Bachelor degree as a minimum or equivalent engineer level responsibilities status as certified by the employer. - Filled out eligibility forms must be sent in two weeks before training date at the latest.
Trainers: three trainers have been certified as TV Functional Safety Expert
- Mr. Jeff Beijk - Mr. Bonne Hoekstra - Mr. Arian Slagt
Language: English - Alternatively Dutch
Training course: rules
- Participants will receive training material at start of the training, including hand outs of the ppt presentation and exercise sheets. - At the end of each training day the applicant will receive the solutions of the group exercises of that day. It may be used for preparing for the examination. Yokogawa Training Course TV Functional Safety Engineer page 3 of 5 Update: 2009-07-27
Examination: rules - Prerequisite to do the examination is that the applicant has to attend Yokogawa's training course TV Functional Safety Engineer SIS. - Pass score is 75%. - There are 60 multiple (3) choice questions. At the most 2 good answers per question are possible, which is indicated if applicable. The answers will be valued as follows:
good good fault fault no earned
answer answer answer answer answer points
x - - - - 1 x x - - - 2 x - x - - 0 - - x - - 0 - - x x - 0 - - - - x 0
- There are 7 safety cases. The maximum points to be earned per case are mentioned. - The examination questions and exercises will be handed over at the start of the examination. - It is not allowed to bring any documents or (hand held) pc to the exam. - It is not allowed to take any documents or notices from the exam. - Check of the examination results will be done by two functional safety experts of Yokogawa. - Counter check will be done by TV Rheinland. - Discussion about the results is not possible. - Applicants who succeed will receive their certificate from TV Rheinland, which may take some weeks.
Re-examination: for those who did not pass the examination
- Within one year after a failed examination, applicants may sign up once for another examination, free of charge. - If applicants sign up for attending the training course again, they have to pay full course price.
TV Certificate: the validity of the TV certificate is 5 years
Prolongation of the TV FS Engineer certificate will be effected as follows: - TV FS Engineer has to send an official letter from his/her employer or from a customer to TV Rheinland, in which his/her current and continuous work in the specified area of the certification (in this case Safety Instrumented Systems) is described and/or confirmed. - The TV FS Engineer has to forward a paper (2-3 pages) to TV Rheinland describing projects he/she has carried out during the last 5 years of his/her professional life describing his/her experience in functional safety. - The costs for the new TV FS Engineer certificate are Euro 250. Only after the TV FS Engineer has paid the costs to TV Rheinland the new TV FS Engineer certificate will be issued. - The new TV FS Engineer certificate will be valid for another 5 years. - TV Rheinland will send an e-mail to all TV FS Engineers whose certificate will expire, by end of the year preceding the expiration date. According information will be given on the website. - TV FS Engineers who do not wish the prolongation of their certificate will be listed on the TV Rheinland website with the indication that their certificate is no longer valid. Yokogawa Training Course TV Functional Safety Engineer page 4 of 5 Update: 2009-07-27
Location: at various Yokogawa premises world wide
- Alternatively in house trainings at customer premises can be organized.
Schedule: locations and dates will be published on the TV website (tuvasi.com)
- Also available on Yokogawa website. - Registration for attending the training will be closed two weeks before training date.
- What is safety? - Why safety? - What is a safety system? - Position of SIS in the total equipment under control
Module 2: International safety standards IEC 61508 and 61511
- The five main pillars of the standards
Day 1: afternoon 13:00 17:00
Module 3: HAZOP - SIF - SIL
- Hazard and risk assessment - Determine Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) - Determine Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) - Group exercises
Day 2: morning 09:00 12:00
Module 4: Safety Engineering
- De-energize To Safe state (DTS) - Energize To Safe state (ETS) - Redundancy - Safety architectures - Reliability modeling (Reliability Block Diagram RBD) - Group exercise on RBD - Sensor validation - Overrides, by-passes, inhibits - Process safety time and system response time - Logic Solver architectures
Day 2: afternoon 13:00 17:00
Module 5: Functional Safety Management
- Implications for organizations involved throughout the safety life cycle
Module 6: Failures and Hardware Fault Tolerance
- Random hardware failures and their modes - Failure mode effect analysis Yokogawa Training Course TV Functional Safety Engineer page 5 of 5 Update: 2009-07-27
- Safe Failure Fraction (SFF)
- Hardware Fault Tolerance (HFT) - Group exercise on HFT
Day 3: morning 09:00 12:00
Module 7: Common cause influences and other failure types
- The beta factor - Systematic failures - Human Failures
Module 8: Safety calculations
- Safety parameters - Formulas - Proof testing - Group exercises on PFDAVG calculations
Day 3: afternoon 13:00 17:00
Session for your questions
- The attendance of this session is optional - Opportunity to do more exercises (optional) - Time for self study
Day 4: morning 09:00 13:00
Examination - 60 Multiple choice questions - 7 Cases - Those who have finished may leave earlier
