Free Live Online =Method CPD Seminar with Q&A

Next date - 17th April 2024

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

Each year 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.

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.

Our 2024 agenda will be announced soon.

The topics we discussed in 2023

To illustrate the sorts of topics that we will be discussing in 2024, please see below our 2023 agenda.

A review – 10 years of functional safety, process safety and OT Cyber security 

Scene setting and looking at the major milestones in our world from the past 10 years – IEC 61511 Edition 2, OG86, CDOIF guidance on legacy systems.

Verification and Assessment – the value they add

A review of what is really involved in verification and assessment and some examples of what value we gain from doing them.

Lessons learnt from HazOp studies 

For process industries, a key foundation for everything that follows is the Hazard Operability Study. A look at best practice and possible developments for the future.

What do we typically find from an FSA 4?

Managing Legacy Systems 

Senior Management’s role in Functional Safety 

Our experience shows that without senior management engagement in the delivery of process and functional safety we don’t achieve our objectives. There are ways to make this work that don’t require significant time, but a little training can help kick start this process.

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” 

What you will get.

A Certificate of Attendance.

Become Competent with =Method.
Training Courses, Workshops & Mentoring

Our 2022 Webinars included the following topics

• Could the correct operation of a safeguard cause a new risk?
• Co-ordinating Project, Process Safety and Functional Safety Lifecycles (no link)
• Why Functional Safety works<
• If a system isn’t Cybersecure, you can’t rely on it to be safe
• Managing Legacy Safety Instrumented Systems