Using Risk Graphs for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessment - A User Guide for Chemical Engineers

Author: Clive De Salis
Publisher: IChemE
Publication year: 2011 
Extent: Paperback, 48 pages

Using risk graphs for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessment explains to readers how to design and calibrate a risk graph and how to understand some of the advantages and disadvantages of using risk graphs.

The book includes: the basic concepts of SIL assessment, what a SIL assessment should cover, using tolerable risk values, layers of protection analysis, fault tree analysis, calibrating a risk graph, the limitations of designed and calibrated risk graphs, SIL assessment and HAZOP, advantages and disadvantages of SIL assessment techniques, and the safety management lifecycle.

The guide was peer-reviewed by the IChemE Safety and Loss Prevention Subject Group.