In Canada, the functional safety standards you work to are not optional references. IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 have been adopted as n...
If IEC 61511 is the standard process engineers cite most, IEC 61508 is the one underneath it holding everything up. It is the foun...
If you work in functional safety and you are ready to certify your competence formally, you will quickly run into two names: the C...
When an operator sets out to hire functional safety help, the phrase certified functional safety expert appears everywhere, on res...
Functional safety used to be a hardware discipline. The safety function lived in a relay, a valve, a physical interlock, and safet...
Search for functional safety certification cost and you will find surprisingly little straight talk. Providers tend to hide pricin...
SIL assessment is one of those functional safety activities that sounds more settled than it is. Ask three engineers how a given s...
If you operate a plant, a production line, or any process where a failure could injure someone or take a facility offline, you hav...
For most of their history, functional safety and cybersecurity have been treated as separate engineering disciplines with separate...
Choosing a functional safety partner is one of the higher-consequence procurement decisions an industrial operator makes. The prov...