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PROCESS SAFETY from POINT A to POINT Zed

From Functional Safety Assessment to Cybersecurity, exida can show you the way.

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 exida: Your TRUSTED PARTNER
Companies around the world turn to exida for help and guidance related to functional
safety, alarm management, and cybersecurity. Our team of industry leading
consultants have over 400 years of combined knowledge, with extensive experience
in Chemical, Oil & Gas, Subsea, Metals and Mining, Pharmaceutical, Pulp & Paper,
Power Utilities and Machinery applications. This unique combination of technical depth
and hands on experience enables exida to provide practical solutions to address your
most difficult challenges.

exida is the choice of leading companies when it comes to implementing and achieving
compliance to the global standards relating to the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards
for safety; IEC 62443 for industrial control system cybersecurity; ISA-18.2 for alarm
management; and IEC 62061 for safety of machinery.

ADDING VALUE
Process industry clients need to cost-effectively implement the requirements of the safety and security standards. exida
enables this this by creating unparalleled engineering tools that reduce the time and cost of compliance, delivering
coaching and training to rapidly develop a knowledge base within the clients organization, offering a full range of
lifecycle services to supplement in-house resources, and providing independent assessments to ensure compliance
and traceability.

Whatever your needs, exida has you covered. Let our knowledge be your guide.

TOOLS

FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
& CYBERSECURITY
ASSESSMENT
FUNCTIONAL SAFETY

CYBERSECURITY

PSM ALARM MANAGEMENT

 POINT A: PSM
Process Hazards Analysis

Process Safety Information Operating

Employee
Participation Procedures

Contractors Training

Prestartup
Safety Mechanical
Review Integrity

PROTECTION
Hot Work Incident
Permits OF Investigation
EMPLOYEES Emergency
Management of
Planning
Change
and Response

Compliance Trade Secrets

Audits

Documentation Control / Access

Management Commitment

Process Safety Management (PSM) is an integral part of the plant’s overall management system. PSM is essential
in order to properly identify and understand potential process hazards so as to prevent process-related incidents
and injuries. A systematic approach to evaluating the whole process is imperative when implementing an effective
PSM program. This helps ensure employee and public safety, improve business value and performance, as well as
compliance with government regulations.

exida works with its clients to help develop an efficient PSM program for their organization, which includes an
evaluation of current processes to define key elements that may impact such processes. This integrated lifecycle
approach leverages activities from multiple disciplines into a coordinated, streamlined process.

Having a sound Mechanical Integrity program for the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) is just one of the key
components to ensuring that there is an appropriate set of Operating and Maintenance policies & procedures in place
to ensure the integrity of the plant. By having the correct procedures and test plans in place, your critical systems can
enjoy years of trouble free service.

PSM
 FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
To improve plant process safety, functional safety systems enable the orderly shutdown of processing units when
abnormal situations occur that are beyond the capabilities of the regulatory control system or operators to correct or to
prevent a catastrophe.

exida makes implementation of safety and high availability automation products

easier and more cost effective than ever.

Users now have the ability to use procedures and tools that were written by industry
authorities for a fraction of the cost of having them internally developed, and without
having to go through the effort of having core staff trained to become safety and
reliability experts. This lets you and your staff focus on your core tasks.

The lifecycle is a series of phases from initiation and specifications of safety requirements, covering design and
development of safety features in a safety-critical system, and ending in decommissioning of that system. exida
provides initial guidance on performing key facets of the lifecycle, providing specific services for individual tasks within
each lifecycle phase.

FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
ALARM MANAGEMENT
Having effective operators in a process plant is critical to maximizing production efficiency, product quality, plant
reliability, and safety. During a single shift, operators make numerous decisions that affect plant profitability and
safety. These include actions to avoid unplanned upsets or to mitigate events that could lead to plant outages or loss of
containment incidents. A well-designed and highly functional alarm system can add to the operator’s decision-making
ability.

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An effective alarm management program can deliver quantifiable business benefits in the following
areas:

»» Improved plant reliability and safety (Less lost production, fewer demand on the SIS)
»» Increased operator productivity
»» Reduction in maintenance of process equipment
»» Production optimization / debottlenecking / increased throughput
»»
»»
»»
CYBERSECURITY
Proven in use validation of alarm credit in Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Reduced environmental / regulatory incidents
Energy savings

CYBERSECURITY
Cybersecurity has rapidly become something that goes hand-in-hand with process safety. It is part of the Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) as well as the President has Issued Executive Order 13636– “Improving Critical
Infrastructure Cybersecurity.” Incidents like Stuxnet have drawn attention to the
need for addressing cybersecurity in our plants as it has been demonstrated that in
our new world, they are now a source of potential process safety incident.

exida has highly experienced personnel in industrial control cyber security methods
and techniques. exida provides customers with services covering the lifecycle, e.g.
Risk Assessments, Equipment Cyber Evaluation Reports, NIST Gap Assessments,
Vulnerability Assessments, Defence-in-Depth: Zone and Conduit Modelling
(Electronic Security Perimeters), and more.

ALARM MANAGEMENT

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 TOOLS & TRAINING
exida has the world’s leading tool for supporting safety lifecycle tasks (exSILentia®). exSILentia® has its own
embedded failure rate database, based upon 160 billion operating hours of failure rate information. Whether you are
performing PHAs (PHAxTM), LOPAs (LOPAxTM), SIL Selection (SILectTM), SIL Verification (SILVerTM), SRS creation or Proof

TOOLS
test procedure development, cyber risk assessment or alarm rationalization, exida has a tool to suit, either as a
standalone or part of an overall integrated suite that works seamlessly to provide the most comprehensive tool on the
market today. You save time and money, while increasing efficiency and productivity. Once again, exida has you
covered.

FUNCTIONAL
exida Academy provides comprehensive Process Safety, ICS Cybersecurity, and Alarm
Management training for industry professionals, as well original equipment manufacturers.

SAFETY ASSESSMENT
Our courses are available on a variety of platforms, from single day public courses to week
long custom, onsite training workshops. Offering courses at the Beginner, Practitioner, and
Expert levels, our goal is to share our evolving knowledge and skills with our students with
the intention that they will use this knowledge to cost effectively design, build, operate, and maintain optimally safe
and secure automation systems as applicable to their functional responsibility. exida Academy was built from the core
foundation of exida’s vision for excellence in dependable automation.
 POINT Zed: Assessments
As part of the lifecycle, management of functional safety and cyber security is a requirement of IEC 61511. The standard
lists 5 stages of assessment to help achieve compliance with the requirement. Although Functional Safety Assessment
3 (FSA 3) is to be performed as part of the pre-startup safety review (PSSR) as the minimum requirement, exida
recommends that the five (5) Functional Safety Assessments (FSA), are carried out to ensure full compliance:

FSA 1 – after the hazard and risk assessment has been carried out, the required protection layers & security countermeasures
identified and the Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) developed.

FSA 2 – after the SIS/ cyber security countermeasures have been designed

FSA 3 – after the installation, pre-commissioning and final validation of the SIS and cyber security countermeasures have been completed and
operation and maintenance procedures developed.

FSA 4 – after gaining experience in operating and maintenance

FSA 5 – after modification and prior to decommissioning of a SIS/ cyber security countermeasures

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