Functional Safety
How Much Does a HAZOP Study Cost? What Drives the Price
Almost no consultancy publishes anything about HAZOP pricing, which is probably why you are reading this after finding t...
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Functional Safety
Functional Safety Training and Certification in the US: CFSE, FS Eng, and What OSHA PSM Expects
In the United States, functional safety competence is not just a line on a resume. It is something OSHA effectively expects you to...
Functional Safety
Functional Safety Training and Certification in Canada: IEC 61508
In Canada, the functional safety standards you work to are not optional references. IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 have been ad...
Functional Safety
IEC 61508 Certification: The Foundation of Functional Safety Competence
If IEC 61511 is the standard process engineers cite most, IEC 61508 is the one underneath it holding everything up. It is the foun...
Functional Safety
CFSE vs FS Eng (TUV Rheinland): Which Functional Safety Certification Is Right for You?
If you work in functional safety and you are ready to certify your competence formally, you will quickly run into two names: the C...
Functional Safety
What Does a Certified Functional Safety Expert Actually Do?
When an operator sets out to hire functional safety help, the phrase certified functional safety expert appears everywhere, on res...
Functional Safety
Software Safety Training: Why Functional Safety Now Extends to Code
Functional safety used to be a hardware discipline. The safety function lived in a relay, a valve, a physical interlock, and safet...
Functional Safety
Functional Safety Services in Canada and the US: What They Cover and When You Need Them
If you operate a plant, a production line, or any process where a failure could injure someone or take a facility offline, you hav...
Functional Safety
Functional Safety and Cybersecurity: Why IEC 61511 and IEC 62443 Must Be Designed Together
For most of their history, functional safety and cybersecurity have been treated as separate engineering disciplines with separate...
Industrial Cybersecurity
Definition of Cyber-Physical Systems: What They Are and Why Securing Them Is Different
Every industrial facility running today is a collection of cyber-physical systems, whether or not the people operating it use that...