SIL Safe·6d agoThe Corinth Refinery Explosions: What We Know So FarTwo explosions hit the Motor Oil Hellas refinery at Agioi Theodoroi, near Corinth, Greece, six days apart in October 2026. Both happened on…
Northstar Safety Systemz Pvt. Ltd.·Oct 24Why Your HAZOP Study is Failing (And How to Fix It)We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a windowless conference room three hours into a Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) study. The air is…
InDispatchbyH.E.L. Group·Oct 20From Bhopal to Safer Futures: Using Stoessel’s Criticality Index for Process SafetyPicture this. You are placidly sleeping in your home in a quiet town, and you are suddenly woken up by a distant explosion. Minutes later…
SIL Safe·Oct 19Beta Factor Estimation — Checking the Certificate Value Against Your InstallationEvery redundant safety instrumented function (SIF) calculation needs a beta factor (β), and the usual first source is the device’s safety…
SIL Safe·Sep 202oo3 Architecture: The Design Decision Behind Majority VotingThree transmitters measure the same pressure, and the SIS trips when two of them reach the trip condition. That is 2oo3 voting, two out of…
SIL Safe·Aug 10Where Does the Data Come From? A Guide to Failure Rate Data Sources in Functional SafetyFor most safety integrity level (SIL) verification work today, the failure rate data question is already answered. The SIL certificate and…
SIL Safe·Jun 15Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) vs. Audit: What’s the Difference?A functional safety assessment (FSA) and a functional safety audit get treated as the same thing in conversation, in scopes of work, in…
RCA Methodology Expert·Apr 20Two Explosions, Same Plant, 17 Months Apart: The Investigation Scope Failure No One Talks AboutIn October 2023, an explosion at a Toyota supplier facility injured two workers and halted production across six Toyota plants for ten…
