A New Standard – Low Integrity Protection Layers

with Angela Summers

Next session: February 23rd, 2026

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A new standard, ISA 84.91.03, builds upon guidelines published in the CCPS LOPA, CCPS IPS, CCPS IE/IPL, and CCPS Safe Automation books, codifying them into a standard enforceable under process safety management regulations. Since the term BPCS is often confused with the control system, the new standard uses the term low-integrity protection layer (LI-PL) to cover any instrumented protection layer that is not expected to provide performance equivalent to a SIS but is needed to provide risk reduction. This new standard will significantly impact current industry practices, from identifying LI-PL during the process hazards analysis to monitoring their installed performance. This webinar will provide an overview of ISA 84.91.03 to raise awareness of the new standard's requirements and discuss its impact on typical process industry practices.

SSE+ 2.7 Demo

with Kushal Parikh

Next session: February 19th, 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.

Why People Make Mistakes — and How to Design So They Don’t Matter

with Calvin Medders

Next session: February 20th, 2026

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Most industrial incidents don’t start with equipment failure. They start with a human decision made under pressure. Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) gives us a way to understand, quantify, and reduce that risk.

This webinar by Calvin Medders, Senior Consultant, delivers a fast-paced introduction to HRA and shows how human actions influence the reliability of complex industrial systems. Attendees will learn how performance-shaping factors, such as stress, fatigue, workload, ergonomics, and procedural quality, drive operator error, even in well-designed facilities. Regulatory drivers, including COMAH and 10 CFR Part 712, are highlighted, reinforcing why human reliability can no longer be treated as an afterthought in chemical manufacturing and oil and gas operations.

A real-world case study demonstrates how routine tasks can quietly erode layers of protection and escalate into major events. The session closes with practical, field-tested strategies—independent back checks, engineered safeguards, and automated detection—that shift organizations from reacting to human error to designing systems that are resilient to it.

Cold Eyes — Why Independent Assessments Make or Break Functional Safety

with Eloise Roche

Next session: February 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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Plan Ahead — Designing for IPS Success and Failure

with Eloise Roche

Next session: February 25th, 2026

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Overview

An instrumented protective system (IPS) is more than a checklist of LOPA interlocks and alarms. The real challenge? Knowing where designs break before they ever go live.

Which instrument technologies can quietly undermine high-speed protection layers? What operations and maintenance realities must be baked into the IPS during conceptual design—before they turn into expensive rework? And how do early design decisions determine whether an IPS performs reliably under real operating conditions?

Addressing these questions up front is the difference between a resilient IPS and one that struggles from day one.

With nearly 35 years of industry experience, Eloise Roche shares practical, field-tested insights to help you design IPS solutions that are robust, maintainable, and far more likely to succeed when it matters most.

Plan smarter. Design stronger.

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Belt and Suspenders — IPS Verification and Validation

with Eloise Roche

Next session: March 25th, 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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Safe Automation (16 hr Virtual)

with Eloise Roche

Next session: April 20th to 23rd, 2026

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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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A New Standard – Low Integrity Protection Layers

SSE+ 2.7 Demo

Why People Make Mistakes — and How to Design So They Don’t Matter

Cold Eyes — Why Independent Assessments Make or Break Functional Safety

Plan Ahead — Designing for IPS Success and Failure

Belt and Suspenders — IPS Verification and Validation

Safe Automation (16 hr Virtual)