Functional Safety
Our Functional Safety Solutions
Synertec provides services covering the full lifecycle of a project or plant
Synertec’s TUV certified Functional Safety experts and engineers provide services covering the full lifecycle of a project or plant. TUV Rheinland administers the only worldwide Functional Safety training program where learning and capability are independently approved and certified.
Our functional safety engineers operate across the Power & Gas, Transport, Nuclear and Water sectors.
Synertec provides specialist functional safety services in areas such as:
- Machine safety systems
- Burner management systems
- Emergency shutdown
- Fire and gas detection
- High integrity protection
- Pipelines
- Turbine safeguarding systems
- Wellhead control panels
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
Safety Services
We provide safety services to meet client needs across the project lifecycle. Examples include:
Definition Stage
- Functional Safety management capability assessments
- Functional Safety assessments
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessments
- Safety requirement specifications
- Concept design
- SIL verification
- System reliability studies
Project Delivery Stage
- Project lifecycle implementation
- SIL design and documentation
- SIL testing
- SIL validation
- SIL verification
Maintenance Stage
- Ongoing maintenance
- Auditing of systems
- Management of change systems
- Decommissioning
Functional Safety Lifecycle stages
Synertec engineers are well versed in the functional safety lifecycle activities as identified in standards such as IEC 61508 and 61511.
Synertec has the capability to provide support at every stage of the Safety Lifecycle. The table below provides a brief overview of our capabilities at each stage:
| Safety Lifecycle Stage | Facilitate | Support | Activities Involved | Example Tools | |
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| Safety Lifecycle Stage | Synertec Capability | Activities Involved | Example Tools | ||
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| Hazard and Risk Analysis | ✔ |
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| SIL Allocation | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Safety Requirements Specification | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Design & Engineering of SIS | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Installation, Commissioning & Validation | ✔ | ✔ |
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| Operation & Maintenance | ✔ |
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| Modifications | ✔ |
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| Decommissioning | ✔ |
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Functional Safety Standards
Synertec has capability in the following safety standards:
| Standard | Title |
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| IEC 61508 | Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems |
| IEC 61511 | Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector |
| AS 4024 | Safety of Machinery |
| AS 15288 | Systems and Software Engineering – System life cycle processes |
| EN50126 | Railway Applications. The Specification and Demonstration of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) |
| EN50128 | Railway applications. Communication, signalling and processing systems. Software for railway control and protection systems |
| EN50129 | Railway applications. Communication, signalling and processing systems. Safety related electronic systems for signalling |
Synertec’s experience in delivering large scale industrial solutions is supported by our commitment to security, adhering to ISO 27001, Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection.
Get in touch today to see how Synertec could help with your next project.
