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Free CPD Seminar 2023Free Live Online =Method CPD Seminar with Q&A

Next date - October 22nd.

The =Method CPD Seminars are FREE to attend events presented by our specialist consultants.

At each 1-day Seminar we pick a series of topics that we think will be of interest and which can provide the basis for maintaining qualifications, such as the TUV Functional Safety and the =Method Hazard Study Leader, through CPD.

CPD Seminar - 8 CPD hoursIf you have an involvement or interest in the fields of Functional Safety, Process Safety and OT Cyber Security, then the CPD Seminar is for you. A healthy amount of time is dedicated to Q&A and the =Method team will do their best to answer your questions.



October 2024 Topics

The Fundamentals of Process Safety Management

Fundamentals of Process Safety Management

The main elements required in a good process safety management system.

Alton Towers Smiler ride

Lessons Learned: The Smiler ride roller coaster crash

First in a series exploring the lessons we can learn from previous incidents: lessons for chemical manufacturers from the Smiler ride roller coaster accident of 2015.

Lessons Learned on FSA

Functional Safety Assessments

Discussing common failings and non-compliances and identifying the potentially dangerous failures these represent.

Machinery Safety Devices used instead of Functional Safety Devices

Machinery Safety Devices

Issues that arise when using machinery safety certified devices in SIFs that should comply with IEC 61511.

The Fundamentals of Cyber Security Risk Management

Fundamentals of Cyber Security

The threat landscape is continually evolving and system complexity and inter-connectedness is increasing – so what should you do?

VPOT Prior Use

Prior Use

A review of a prior use project scrutinised by the regulator.


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April 2024 Agenda

Taking the stress out of HSE Visits

What happens after a Functional Safety Assessment Stage 3

Don’t buy security vulnerabilities – Understanding Supply Chain Risk

PFD Calculation - The basics

What to ask your Design Contractor and your Systems Integrator

LOPA pitfalls

 

April 2023 Agenda

A review – 10 years of functional safety, process safety and OT Cyber security 

Verification and Assessment – the value they add

Lessons learnt from HazOp studies 

What do we typically find from an FSA 4?

Managing Legacy Systems 

Senior Management’s role in Functional Safety 

Operations staff and cyber security 

A debate – “This house believes that you don’t need to do an FSA 1 if the HazOp and LOPA conclude no SIL” 

 

April 2022 Agenda

Could the correct operation of a safeguard cause a new risk?

Co-ordinating Project, Process Safety and Functional Safety Lifecycles (no link)

Why Functional Safety works

If a system isn’t Cybersecure, you can’t rely on it to be safe

Managing Legacy Safety Instrumented Systems

 

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