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BS IEC 61511-3 : 2003 AMD 15578

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FUNCTIONAL SAFETY - SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS FOR THE PROCESS INDUSTRY SECTOR - PART 3: GUIDANCE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE REQUIRED SAFETY INTEGRITY LEVELS

Superseded date

16-05-2005

Published date

23-11-2012

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Terms, definitions and abbreviations
3 Risk and safety integrity - general guidance
  3.1 General
  3.2 Necessary risk reduction
  3.3 Role of safety instrumented systems
  3.4 Safety integrity
  3.5 Risk and safety integrity
  3.6 Allocation of safety requirements
  3.7 Safety integrity levels
  3.8 Selection of the method for determining the
      required safety integrity level
Annex A (informative) As Low As Reasonably Practicable
        (ALARP) and tolerable risk concepts
Annex B (informative) Semi-quantitative method
Annex C (informative) The safety layer matrix method
Annex D (informative) Determination of the required safety
         integrity levels - a semi-qualitative method:
         calibrated risk graph
Annex E (informative) Determination of the required safety
         integrity levels - a qualitative method: risk graph
Annex F (informative) Layer of protection analysis (LOPA)
Figures
Tables

Gives information on: - the underlying concepts of risk, the relationship of risk to safety integrity; - the determination of tolerable risk; - a number of different methods that enable the safety integrity levels for the safety instrumented functions to be determined.

Committee
GEL/65/1
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 99/244276 DC. (05/2003) Also available as a part of BS KIT 127. (06/2004) Renumbered and superseded by BS EN 61511-3. (05/2005)
DocumentType
Standard
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
IEC 61511-3:2016 Identical

IEC 61511-1:2016+AMD1:2017 CSV Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector - Part 1: Framework, definitions, system, hardware and application programming requirements
DIN V 19250:1994-05 CONTROL TECHNOLOGY; FUNDAMENTAL SAFETY ASPECTS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT

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