Free Live Online =Method CPD Seminar with Q&A

Next date - October 2025.

The =Method CPD Seminars are FREE to attend events presented by our specialist consultants.

At each 1-day Seminar we pick a series of topics that we think will be of interest and which can provide the basis for maintaining qualifications, such as the TUV Functional Safety and the =Method Hazard Study Leader, through CPD.

CPD Seminar - 8 CPD hours If you have an involvement or interest in the fields of Functional Safety, Process Safety and OT Cyber Security, then the CPD Seminar is for you. A healthy amount of time is dedicated to Q&A and the =Method team will do their best to answer your questions.

Agenda:

TBC

Previous Agendas

May 2025 Agenda

Early hazard studies - Introducing the Early Stage Hazard Studies
When Should You Use Machinery Safety Instead of Functional Safety?
What's new in ISA TR84.00.09:2024 "Cybersecurity Related to the Safety Lifecycle
ALARP Explained (as simply as reasonably practicable)
Functional Safety: More Than a PFD Calculation
What’s happening with IEC 61511 Edition 3?

October 2024 Agenda

Fundamentals of Process Safety Management The main elements required in a good process safety management system.
Lessons Learned: The Smiler ride roller coaster crash. First in a series exploring the lessons we can learn from previous incidents: lessons for chemical manufacturers from the Smiler ride roller coaster accident of 2015.
Functional Safety Assessments. Discussing common failings and non-compliances and identifying the potentially dangerous failures these represent.
Machinery Safety Devices. Issues that arise when using machinery safety certified devices in SIFs that should comply with IEC 61511.
Fundamentals of Cyber Security. The threat landscape is continually evolving and system complexity and inter-connectedness is increasing – so what should you do?
Prior Use. A review of a prior use project scrutinised by the regulator.

April 2024 Agenda

Taking the stress out of HSE Visits
What happens after a Functional Safety Assessment Stage 3
Don’t buy security vulnerabilities – Understanding Supply Chain Risk
PFD Calculation - The basics
What to ask your Design Contractor and your Systems Integrator
LOPA pitfalls

April 2023 Agenda

A review – 10 years of functional safety, process safety and OT Cyber security
Verification and Assessment – the value they add
Lessons learnt from HazOp studies
What do we typically find from an FSA 4?

Managing Legacy Systems

Senior Management’s role in Functional Safety
Operations staff and cyber security
A debate – “This house believes that you don’t need to do an FSA 1 if the HazOp and LOPA conclude no SIL”

April 2022 Agenda

Could the correct operation of a safeguard cause a new risk?
Co-ordinating Project, Process Safety and Functional Safety Lifecycles
Why Functional Safety works
If a system isn’t Cybersecure, you can’t rely on it to be safe
Managing Legacy Safety Instrumented Systems

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"The chat when real world stuff came through nicely"

"Excellent day expressed seemlessly "

"Overall the speakers were excellent"

"Great interaction between on-line questions and flow of sessions"

"PFD section was very useful for me as well as the time given for discussion on each topic "

"We picked up a few ideas to bring to the day to day maintenance of our facility."

"It was all great TBH "

"The more open and frank discussions, across all subjects, outside describing exactly what is written in the standard was particularly interesting. "

" I really enjoyed these as these are relevant to my role as an operations engineer."