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Generalised Individual Time Dependent Safety

Assessment Process

This gives a mechanism to determine safety compliance for situations where the fault
frequency and/or the presence frequency or duration vary over the time period under
consideration. The input framework is deliberately non-prescriptive in order to give the
designer maximum flexibility with respect to the situations under assessment. As a result of
this, it is necessary for the designer to complete some preliminary organisation and
categorisation of the different time zones for consideration.

NOTE: It is necessary that the fault duration is constant for the entire duration of the period
being assessed.

The development of the model for assessment can be outlined as below. As an example,
consider the varying patterns of presence and faults that occur during a normal day:

Time 0 6am noon 6pm 12pm


Fault frequency C
B
A

Presence frequency Z
Y
X

Category 1 2 3 4 5 6

This information can then be entered in the grid as shown below. Note that the coincidence
probability for each category is a value calculated in Argon and not entered by the designer.
The contact frequency is entered as the number of contacts that occur over the time period of
the particular category (eg number of contacts between 3pm and 6pm). The fault frequency
is entered in the same way (eg a fault frequency of 20/yr would be entered as
20/365/8=0.00685 for a 3 hour category duration).

Variations in the input categories can be replicated through the grid by copying and pasting
the required cell to make the required total length of time. Cyclic repetitions of the input data
can be accommodated by setting the number of cycles that occur over a year (eg if 24
categories were set up representing the 24 hours in a day, the cycles could be set to 365 to
extend the assessment to a year).

For all time-dependent calculations, the time period under consideration has been limited to
one year. If the sum of all the category hours (including multiple cycles of the categories) is
less than one year, it is assumed that all remaining hours have no contacts applicable.

This method can be extrapolated to include variations on a weekly, monthly or seasonal


basis.

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