Identification of the right people

The intent of ANSI/ISA-84.00.01-2004-1 is to achieve functional safety throughout all phases of plant operation. To achieve functional safety, the standard requires identification of the following  

Clearly established roles and responsibilities enable the necessary resources to be defined early, ensuring that the project is correctly staffed. Table C.1 provides an example of a roles-and-responsibilities matrix. For this project, an SIS specialist was the project lead. 

Personnel assigned to a specific project often represent multiple companies, such as the owner/operator, engineering contractor, integrator, manufacturer, or consultant. For this reason, the standard refers to the identification of individuals, departments, or organizations that are responsible for each lifecycle task. Personnel education and experience should be evaluated to determine whether mentoring, supervision, or additional training is necessary. For example. Table C.2 provides suggested education and experience for the various disciplines that are shown in Table C.1. 

All documents created for a project should be reviewed by an independent person from the creator of the document. At certain stages of the lifecycle, the standard recommends that a functional safety assessment be performed by an assessment team that contains at least one senior, independent, competent person. This independent person can be an employee of the company or a contracted third-party, as long as the reviewer understands the process hazards, the company s management system, the full SIS lifecycle, and the fundamentals of appropriate design, installation, operation, maintenance, testing, and reliability. This person should not be part of the project team, report to project team management or plant operations, and should have the authority to prevent the project from proceeding if deviations are not addressed. 

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