Safe Automation (16 hr Virtual)

with Eloise Roche

Next session: October 5th to 8th, 2026

$1500 More Info

Safe Automation Overview - 16 hr Virtual

Safe Automation in the Process Industry is a 16-hour virtual course designed to orient users in the principles of safe automation, including the practices and terminology used in the design and implementation of instrumented protective systems (IPS). Experienced personnel will also benefit from awareness of more recent developments in safe automation terminology, updated standards, and techniques on sharing these concepts with newer employees.

This course will introduce the key concepts and practices necessary to design and implement safe automation, including the following topics:

Safe Automation Lifecycle Process
Safe Automation Fundamentals, including Application Program, HMI, Procedure and Personnel systems
Instrument Justification and Alarm Management
Control and Safety System Hardware Selection (e.g., instrumentation, logic solvers, auxiliaries)
Safe Automation Metrics
Controlling Systematic Error in Automation Systems, including Designing for Security

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PHA Fundamentals and Facilitation

with Kedar Kottawar

Next session: October 12th to 13th, 2026

$1500 More Info

PHA Class Overview

This course introduces the fundamentals of facilitating a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), with a strong emphasis on HAZOP methodology, facilitation skills, and practical application in process industries. It walks participants through the key elements of a PHA study, including defining scope, organizing nodes, establishing design intent, identifying deviations, evaluating causes and consequences, and assessing risk using qualitative ranking methods. The course highlights the role of the facilitator in guiding discussions, building team consensus, managing time, setting ground rules, and addressing dysfunctional team behavior to keep the study productive and focused. The training also covers how to identify safeguards, recommendations, and how to document findings in a PHA report. This course covers the fundamentals of how to facilitate a PHA during process design and execution, on operating units, and as part of a management of change review. The course includes hands on workshops to practice and reinforce key concepts.

LOPA Fundamentals and Application

with Kedar Kottawar

Next session: October 14th to 15th, 2026

$1500 More Info

LOPA Class Overview

The course covers the fundamental concepts of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) process, including initiating events, consequence severity, different risk definitions, independent protection layers (IPLs), enabling conditions, conditional modifiers, how math works, and the management processes needed to validate assumptions. Includes multiple workshops to reinforce key concepts. Attendees will gain skills to determine whether safeguards meet IPL criteria, apply appropriate risk reduction factors, and establish risk tolerance criteria aligned with industry standards.

SSE+ 2.7 Demo

with Kushal Parikh

Next session: October 15th, 2026

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This webinar introduces the new features of SIL Solver Enterprise+ V2.7!

SSE+ V2.7 supports the different roles and responsibilities of personnel supporting the safety lifecycle, allowing you to control who can view or edit system data and who can add to or modify corporate-wide metadata.

SSE+ V2.7 covers the documentation requirements of IEC 61511 for safety instrumented systems and the impending requirements of ISA 84.91.03 for instrumented protection layers, such as safety interlocks, BPCS, IPL, Fire and Gas, ESD, and equipment protection.

Key capabilities of SSE+ V2.7 include scope and hazard registries, document registry, Functional Safety Assessment (FSA), audits, process requirements specification, SIL verification, Safety Requirements Specification, Application Program Specification, and I/O lists.

Belt and Suspenders — IPS Verification and Validation

with Eloise Roche

Next session: October 19th, 2026

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Overview

Verification and validation often get lumped together—but in functional safety, confusing them can leave dangerous gaps in your protection layers.

They are not interchangeable. Each serves a distinct purpose, and each addresses different ways human error can quietly turn an instrumented protection layer into something ineffective—or worse, inoperable. Skip one, misunderstand the other, and the integrity of the IPS is at risk.

In this session, Eloise Roche draws on nearly 35 years of industry experience to clearly separate verification from validation, explain why both matter, and show how these complementary activities work together to deliver a truly robust IPS implementation.

Two checks. One goal. Real protection when it counts.

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PRISM-certified® – Bundle Discounted Price

with Angela Summers

Next session: October 26th to 30th, 2026

$3000 More Info

Purchase all three classes in one bundle and save $750.

PRISM-certified® is a certificate-in-training program from SIS-TECH Solutions, LP that addresses the design and lifecycle management of instrumented protective systems (IPS). The program provides technical personnel with the latest standards and best practices for safe automation.

To become PRISM-certified®, participants must complete all three classes in the program and score at least 80% on an online exam.

Part 1: IPS Design Principles and Practices

Part 2: IPS Performance and SIL Verification

Part 3: IPS Operations and Maintenance Practices

Pre-requisites

This course and the PRISM-certified® program have no specific education, experience, or nomination requirements. Participants earn PRISM Certification by successfully completing the required classes and testing. Attendees are expected to have a technical background in instrumented systems and basic knowledge of process operations.

PRISM-certified® – Part 1: IPS Design Principles and Practices

with Angela Summers

Next session: October 26th to 27th, 2026

$1500 More Info

PRISM-certified® - Part 1: IPS Design Principles and Practices

Overview

PRISM-certified® is a certificate-in-training program addressing the design and lifecycle management of instrumented protective systems. The target audience includes technical personnel who need to understand the latest standards and practices for safe automation. To become PRISM-certified®, students must complete all three classes in the program and score at least 80% on an online exam.

This course orients users in the principles of safe automation, including the practices and terminology used in the design and implementation of instrumented protective systems (IPS). Experienced personnel can also benefit from awareness of recent developments in IPS standards, tips for reducing IPS-related project rework, and techniques for communicating safe automation concepts to newer employees.

Pre-requisites

This course and the PRISM-certified® program have no specific education, experience, or nomination requirements. Participants earn PRISM Certification by successfully completing the required classes and testing. Attendees are expected to have a technical background in instrumented systems and basic knowledge of process operations.

Objectives

The course participants will gain an understanding of the following:

Relationship between inherently safer design and functional safety
How IPS are included in the standard project work process and project organization planning
Pitfalls in IPS identification that can lead to IPS design problems
Fundamentals of safety function specification
Selecting IPS devices that are fit for purpose and reliable
Essentials of alarm management, including instrument and alarm justification
Activities designed to control systematic error during IPS specification, design, and implementation
IPS project change management

PRISM-certified® – Part 2: IPS Performance and SIL Verification

with Angela Summers

Next session: October 28th to 29th, 2026

$1500 More Info

PRISM-certified® - Part 2: IPS Performance and SIL Verification

Overview

PRISM-certified® is a certificate-in-training program addressing the design and lifecycle management of instrumented protective systems. The target audience includes technical personnel who need to understand the latest standards and practices for safe automation. To become PRISM-certified®, students must complete all three classes in the program and score at least 80% on an online exam.

This course provides fundamental instruction in the ways IPS device performance can impact both IPS integrity and operational reliability, the design verification of safety integrity level (SIL) for safety instrumented functions (SIF) implemented per ISA 61511-1, and the evaluation of IPS spurious trip rate. Course covers IPS device failure rate data and key design parameters, analysis of safety instrumented system (SIS) mode of operation, and multiple SIL calculation methodologies, including hands-on practice.

Student Materials

Attendees should bring a laptop to participate in supplemental exercises using software

Pre-requisites

This course and the PRISM-certified® program have no specific education, experience, or nomination requirements. Participants earn PRISM Certification by successfully completing the required classes and testing. Attendees are expected to have a technical background in instrumented systems and basic knowledge of process operations.

Objectives

The course participants will gain an understanding of the following:

Impact of SIS mode of operation on methodology used for SIL calculation
Approaches for selection of data to be used in SIL calculations and situations where modification of the source values may be needed
Identification of the hardware subsystems to include in the SIL calculation
Two most common calculation methods for performing PFDavg calculations
Basic diagramming methods to use when understanding subsystem architectures
Impact of voting architecture and specified SIF response to detected failure on the calculated PFDavg
Potential use of diagnostics and partial testing to satisfy proof test interval targets from the SIS specification.
How to recognize SIS designs that will require a more advanced calculation methods
Recognizing when it is necessary to incorporate automation utility or other auxiliary systems in the SIL calculation

PRISM-certified® – Part 3: IPS Operations and Maintenance Practices

with Angela Summers

Next session: October 30th, 2026

$750 More Info

PRISM-certified® - Part 3: IPS Operations and Maintenance Practices

Overview

PRISM-certified® is a certificate-in-training program addressing the design and lifecycle management of instrumented protective systems. The target audience includes technical personnel who need to understand the latest standards and practices for safe automation. To become PRISM-certified®, students must complete all three classes in the program and score at least 80% on an online exam.

This course focuses on operating and maintaining instrumented protective systems throughout their installed life. The course addresses how automation design supports safe operation and maintenance, including human factors, alarms, bypasses and compensating measures, procedures, change management, competency management, and performance monitoring. Participants learn practical approaches for maintaining functional safety and assessing system performance over time.

Pre-requisites

This course and the PRISM-certified® program have no specific education, experience, or nomination requirements. Participants earn PRISM Certification by successfully completing the required classes and testing. Attendees are expected to have a technical background in instrumented systems and basic knowledge of process operations.

Objectives

The course participants will gain an understanding of the following:

Functional safety lifecycle requirements
Safe and operable automation design
Human factors in operations and maintenance
Bypass and compensating measure management
Maintenance, change, and competency management
Functional safety metrics and performance monitoring

Cold Eyes — Why Independent Assessments Make or Break Functional Safety

with Eloise Roche

Next session: November 10th, 2026

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Overview

Automation projects are complex, fast-moving, and deeply human—and that means mistakes happen. Some are harmless. Others quietly erode or even defeat your protection layers, at startup or years later.

That’s where cold eyes matter.

Functional Safety Assessments (FSAs) bring in independent, experienced reviewers to spot the dangerous oversights others miss—verifying that instrumented protection layers and their documentation truly do what they claim. Ongoing assessments then confirm those layers continue to perform as designed throughout the lifecycle.

Drawing on nearly 35 years in industry and more than a decade leading FSAs, Eloise Roche shares practical, hard-won insights on how to plan, scope, and execute assessments that are efficient, effective, and defensible—without unnecessary pain.

Fresh eyes. Proven experience. Stronger safety outcomes.

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Classes

Safe Automation (16 hr Virtual)

PHA Fundamentals and Facilitation

LOPA Fundamentals and Application

SSE+ 2.7 Demo

Belt and Suspenders — IPS Verification and Validation

PRISM-certified® – Bundle Discounted Price

PRISM-certified® – Part 1: IPS Design Principles and Practices

PRISM-certified® – Part 2: IPS Performance and SIL Verification

PRISM-certified® – Part 3: IPS Operations and Maintenance Practices

Cold Eyes — Why Independent Assessments Make or Break Functional Safety