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This June, Explore These Safety & Alarm Management Titles from ISA!

ISA publications meet the needs of automation and control professionals worldwide by offering more than 180 print and online technical resources—including print books, digital books, magazines, journals, newsletters, software, technical papers, proceedings, and standards.

ISA Publications Safety & Alarm Management Collection

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Safety Profiles for Real-Time Ethernet-Based Industrial Automation Networks (PDF)

Alberto Elia, Luca Ferrarini, and Carlo Veber

The book discusses industrial automation network systems and emphasizes real-time functional safety requirements. It defines real-time capability with regard to communication within safety-related systems and addresses the strict correlation between time performance and external requirements.

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Safety Integrity Level Selection: Systematic Methods Including Layer of Protection Analysis 

Edward M. Marszal, PE, Dr. Eric W. Scharpf, MIPENZ

This book describes a systematic method for selecting safety integrity levels (SILs) for safety instrumented systems (SISs). The method emphasizes accounting for existing layers of protection, and it ensures that the maximum return on risk reduction investments is achieved.

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Control Systems Safety Evaluation & Reliability, Third Edition

William M. Goble

This book is intended to serve a wide variety of users. This updated third edition provides the detailed background necessary to understand how to meet important new safety regulations and reliability engineering topics.

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Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook

Austin Bryan, Elizabeth Smith, and Kevin Mitchell

This handbook provides a thorough overview of the FGS design lifecycle presented in the ISA-TR84.00.07 technical report, with an examination of each phase of the lifecycle and the practical activities required to develop an FGS design.

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Safety Instrumented Design: Techniques and Design Verification

Iwan van Beurden, CFSE, and William M. Goble, CFSE 

This book provides an excellent description of the design phase of the SIS safety lifecycle defined in IEC 61511:2016. It focuses on the fundamental concepts starting with a description of the entire safety lifecycle process and then explaining how the design steps—from conceptual design through design verification—fit into that process.

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Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach

Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust, CPEng

Authors Simon Lucchini and Paul Gruhn have compiled almost 80 years of real-life experience and lessons learned into this easy-to-read reference that contains real-world examples of designing, installing, commissioning, programming, managing, and maintaining safety instrumented systems.

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Detecting Leaks in Pipelines

Edward J. Farmer, PE

This book provides a useful perspective and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of leak detection technology for industry executives, regulators, safety and technology managers, and operations managers. 

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Security PHA Review for Consequence-Based Cybersecurity

Edward M. Marszal and Jim McGlone

This book reviews the most common methods for PHA of process industry plants and then explains how to supplement those methods with an additional security PHA review (SPR) study to determine if there are any cyberattack vectors that can cause significant physical damage to the facility. Recommendations are given for addressing attack vectors and for implementing the necessary safeguards. 

 

 

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Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition

Bill R. Hollifield and Eddie Habibi 

In this second edition, the authors address various alarm system problems and provide precise guidance on how they come about and how to effectively correct them. The authors have vast experience in different plants, processes, and environments requiring effective alarm management.