Functional Safety solutions
In today’s automated, complex process industry operations, functional safety is a multi-layered process that relies on expertise, knowledge, and extraordinary attention to detail.
Entrust your operation to a team of experts who will fit it with a robust functional safety solution that measures against IEC global safety standards. Our accredited, experienced team of functional safety experts will work with you to ensure your safety instrumented systems are IEC compliant.
True North Solutions’ functional safety and automation services integrate seamlessly, reducing procurement efforts, streamlining project activities, and optimizing budget and scheduling efficiencies for your company.
Manage outcomes with Functional Safety solutions
Every operation entails risks: risk to people, risk to the environment, and risk to equipment and facilities. Functional safety mitigates those risks by using safety instrumented systems (SIS) and other layers of protection. It’s about identifying, designing, implementing, validating, and monitoring reliable SIS and ensuring that processes fail to a safe state.
The global standard for functional safety is IEC 61511. It's a performance-based umbrella standard that informs the standards in a range of industries, including the process industries. It is intended for the users and integrators of SIS and focuses on the management of functional safety and the specification, design, installation, operation, and maintenance of SIS.
Safety instrumented systems: key to workplace safety
Safety instrumented systems implement one or more safety instrumented functions (SIFs). These functions are executed by equipment that brings the process to a safe state when a specific dangerous event occurs. Safety instrumented function equipment can include:
- Sensors and logic solvers
- Final elements (solenoids, actuators, valves, and motors)
- Ancillary equipment (cables, tubing, heat tracing, etc.)
- Interface equipment (relays, barriers, isolators, etc.)
- Firmware and application programs
Get a one-stop functional safety solution
True North offers a broad portfolio of functional safety services across the full range of safety lifecycle activities as well as the automation expertise to implement complete solutions. The result? Integrated functional safety and automation solutions. Our clients benefit from reduced procurement efforts, streamlined project activities, cohesive strategies, and safe facilities.
Our functional safety services include:
- Hazard and risk analysis
- Layer of protection analysis (LOPA)
- Safety requirements
- Safety integrity level (SIL) verification
- Safety instrumented systems (SIS) hardware and software design evaluation, selection, integration, installation, and commissioning and validation for emergency shutdown (ESD) systems, process shutdown (PSD) systems, high integrity pressure protection system (HIPPS), burner management systems (BMS)
- Proof testing
- Functional safety assessments and audits
- SIS lifecycle costsFunctional safety training
True focus on safety and quality
Whether on a client site or at our headquarters in the US or Canada, we conduct ourselves with the utmost attention to safety, quality, and workflow-based execution best practices.
- True North complies with our clients' requirements for Certificate of Recognition (COR) status in the regions where it is required.
- Across all our operating regions, True North's health, safety, wellness, and environmental programs are structured to support the wellbeing of our employees, contractors, clients, and visitors.
- Our safety and environmental target is zero incidents. This is more than just a target to be achieve – this is a fundamental value. Regardless of geographic location, we pride ourselves on consistently exceeding industry standards.
- Client satisfaction is our priority; this is the first item on our list of True Values, and it’s something we strive for in everything we do.
- Our quality program is designed to ensure the delivery of reliable, efficient, and secure solutions for clients across various industries.
- At the beginning of every client engagement, we work with our clients to establish expectations and key performance indicators to ensure alignment before the work begins. Quality is then driven by our Leadership and project execution teams, and measured, reported on, and continuously improved.
- By prioritizing quality, we help you optimize your operational technology infrastructure, mitigate risks, and achieve long-term operational success.