We design industrial safety solutions tailored to your critical processes.
We mitigate risks, comply with regulations and protect your team and assets with state-of-the-art technology.
✔ Operational risk assessment
✔ Implementation of safety instrumented systems (SIS)
✔ Compliance with international standards (IEC 61511, OSHA, etc.)
Safety Culture
We can provide you with a roadmap for continuous improvement, reducing risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Process Safety Lifecycle
Industrial environments present unique risks to the safety and well-being of employees, the surrounding community and the environment. Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) play an essential role by providing a layer of protection around industrial process systems. Their purpose is to identify a specific hazard when predetermined set points are exceeded and to bring the process back to a “safe state”.
Smartone offers a full range of SIS design and implementation services. From building new systems to studying legacy systems and recommending the most impactful safety changes, our team can help ensure your facility meets regulatory requirements and follows the latest industry best practices.
Smartone conducts hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) and layer of protection analysis (LOPA), takes part in design reviews, calculates the probability of failure on demand (PFD), and performs criticality analysis and testing on new systems. We help our clients design, install and maintain “fail-safe” control systems for the complete safety instrumented function (SIF): logic solvers, final elements, sensors and other control equipment independent of the basic process control system, to ensure that SIS functionality is not compromised.
Process Safety Lifecycle Capabilities
- HAZOP/PHA studies
- LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis)
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) calculations
- SIF/SIL selection
- Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) documentation
- Assessment of new or existing facilities
- Instrument and final element selection
- Standards compliance assessments
- SIS programming
- Panel fabrication
- Validation and proof testing
- SIS/DCS integration
- Burner management systems (BMS)
- Maintenance and testing procedures
Safety Compliance
The General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), requires every employer to provide a workplace free from recognized hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm. This general statement of responsibility is essential for OSHA compliance; however, new and changing safety standards leave it unclear how to meet specific requirements, especially in the process industries.
Establishing a Process Safety Management (PSM) program for compliance requires experts qualified in the international safety standards recognized by OSHA, including IEC 61508, IEC 61511 / ISA 84 and IEC 62061. Beyond establishing a PSM program, maintaining and testing safety systems and practices must be an ongoing process to ensure that safety processes and systems perform as intended throughout their operating life.
Process Safety Training
Process Safety for Non-Process-Safety Engineers: This training explains the concepts behind process safety for those who are not familiar with them. It explains the layers of protection and the consequences of making changes or skipping maintenance.
Why choose Smartone
Whether you are upgrading an industrial facility or building a new one from the ground up, our SIS specialists will work with you to meet YOUR safety needs.
Our team members actively participate in safety standards committees and have in-depth knowledge of industry best practices and requirements.
Several members of our team have completed the most rigorous and comprehensive functional safety training program in the industry to earn their certification as TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety (FS) Engineers.
Our certified functional safety engineers have developed a meticulous process safety methodology, adhering to IEC 61508 / 61511, ANSI/ISA-61511-2018 and the entire safety lifecycle.
The Process Safety team can design and implement safety systems for the refining, petrochemical, chemical, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries. The team is made up of process design engineers, electrical and instrumentation engineers and designers, control systems engineers and safety experts.