《A fuzzy probabilistic approach for determining safety integrity level》.pdf

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, VOL. 16, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2008 239 A Fuzzy Probabilistic Approach for Determining Safety Integrity Level Mohamed Sallak, Christophe Simon, and Jean-Francois Aubry Abstract— The process industry has always been faced with The ANSI/ISA S84.01-1996 [2] and IEC 61508 [3] safety the difficult task of determining the required integrity of safe- standards provide guidelines for the design, installation, opera- guarding systems such as Safety Instrumented Systems (SISs). The tion, maintenance, and test of SIS. However, in the field there is ANSI/ISA S84.01-1996 and IEC 61508 safety standards provide guidelines for the design, installation, operation, maintenance, and a considerable lack of understanding of how to apply these stan- test of SIS. However, in the field, there is a considerable lack of un- dards to both determine and achieve the required SIL. Thus, de- derstanding of how to apply these standards to both determine and termining SIL for a SIS and its validation are very important for achieve the required safety integrity level (SIL) for SIS. Moreover, compliance with the ANSI/ISA S84.01-1996 [2] and IEC 61508 in certain situations, the SIL evaluation is further complicated due [3] standards. The SIL of a SIS is defined by its probability to to the uncertainty on reliability parameters of SIS components. This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the “confidence” fail on demand (PFD). The PFD represents the probability that of the SIL determination when there is an uncertainty about the SIS will fail such that it cannot respond to a potentially dan- failure rates of SIS compon