Functional Safety has been growing in importance every year. As more and more plants and equipment becomes automated, this phenomenon will only increase. There are a lot of job opportunities in this highly specialized and niche area, that you can dominate, if you have the right knowledge, skills and some experience. Nothing beats a very good training course to get this knowledge easily. If you subscribe to an online ecourse, then you can learn at your own pace and not be bound by timings or the need to travel.
Are there such good courses that you can enroll into? Of course there are! You can check out what Abhisam has to offer. In addition to an excellent Safety Instrumented Systems course, that helps you learn about Functional safety and Safety Integrity level in detail, with easy to understand animations and simulations, text, actual real life examples and situations, exercises that stimulate your brain to understand the concepts and lastly, a certification exam that earns you an electronic badge via Credly, that you can proudly display on your LinkedIn profile. Of course you also receive a certificate that shows that you have competency in the subject. You also get 40 PDH (professional development hours) when you complete this ecourse.This has become very important in todays world, where if you do not demonstrate visibly about your skills and knowledge, then you may be never approached by potential recruiters or clients.
Contrary to popular belief, safety is a vast subject. It is not just about wearing personal protective equipment. In fact due to increased use of automation, most of safety in plants toady depend on automated safety instrumented systems that take immediate action to shut down the process in case of any deviations. But this is not the only area where this technology is used. In fact it is used in automotive industry a lot, it is used in airplanes and even elevators. It is also used in the machinery industry. Every application area is different and has different standards that you must learn and understand.
The main functional safety standard, that can be said to be the mother of all standards, is IEC 61508. This is published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (hence the acronym IEC) and has seven parts, out of which the first four are normative and the rest three are informative.
Every industry sector has its own standard that is derived from this main standard. So the process industry (think chemical manufacturing, oil and gas, etc) has IEC 61511, the machinery sector (think lathe machines, presses, etc) follows IEC 62061 and the railway industry follows EN 50126, EN 50127 and EN50128. The automotive industry has ISO 26262. (Note: Even though this is an ISO standard, it is derived from IEC 61508 only).
You need an easy to understand training course so that you can understand the complexities of these systems and the best way forward is to enroll in the Abhisam Safety Instrumented System course. This is focused on IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, so it is useful for people in the process industry as well as automation system integrators, HIPPS suppliers, BMS suppliers and of course engineering consultants and end users.
