Functional Safety
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Frequently asked questions within Functional Safety

What is PHA?
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) is a methodology to identify potential hazards, consequences and likelihoods for a given process.

What SIL assessment
Also known as SIL classification, The demand scenario frequency and the severity of the consequences for a hazardous event are used to establish the Safety Integrity Level.

What is functional safety?
Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of plant and equipment that depends on the correct functioning of safety-related systems and other risk reduction measures such as safety instrumented systems (SIS), alarm systems and basic process control systems (BPCS).

What is HAZOP?
HAZOP analysis is a technique for identifying potential hazards and/or identifying operability issues for a given process.