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This article addresses selected issues of the functional safety management of a hazardous process installation. An important role in reducing risks plays nowadays a safety-related control system (SRCS) as a part of the industrial automation and control system (IACS). Responsible tasks in abnormal and accident situations execute the human operators that make use of an alarm system (AS) and its interface within the human system interface (HSI). In this article an approach is outlined for evaluating the human error probability (HEP) interacting with AS. It includes determining the required risk reduction expressed by relevant safety integrity level (SIL). Determined SIL of given safety function to be implemented in the basic process control system (BPCS) and/or the safety instrumented system (SIS) must be then verified for their architectures considered. The HEP for relevant human operator behaviour type is evaluated using the human cognitive reliability (HCR) model.
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Kosmowski, K.T. (2023). Functional Safety Management in Hazardous Process Installations Regarding the Role of Human Operators Interacting with the Control and Alarm Systems. In: Kowalczuk, Z. (eds) Intelligent and Safe Computer Systems in Control and Diagnostics. DPS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 545. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16159-9_8
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