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Peter Herena
Rob Magraw

March 2014

Standards such as IEC 61511 (Functional Safety for Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry Sector) are derived off of the concept that Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) should be designed, installed, operated and maintained as part of a holistic safety lifecycle. Yet, what is often forgotten is that IEC 61511 offers a value proposition that, if embraced, can reduce long-term cost over the lifetime of the equipment.

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peter herena

rob magraw, CFSE

Rob Magraw, CFSE

Mr. Magraw is a member of BakerRisk’s Process Safety Group. He has an extensive career of over thirty years in safety and risk management, including over thirteen years in the oil and gas sector and over eighteen years in the nuclear industry. His work focuses on the execution of the following services: Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Safety Instrumented Systems SIS/Safety Integrity Levels (SIL), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), audit, insurance risk engineering, and management system development. He was previously head of environment, health, safety, and quality for an international nuclear services company. Mr. Magraw has also managed the corporate HSE management system and assurance program for a major international nuclear business with a global portfolio of nuclear and non-nuclear operations.

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European Process Safety Centre (EPSC): EPSC (BakerRisk Europe hosting an EPSC meeting in 2016)
Fire and Blast Information Group (FABIG): FABIG (4 Qrtly mtgs in 2019)
Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE): IChemE Hazards 29 Committee
Oil, Petroleum and Energy Risks Association (OPERA): UK Chemicals Northwest

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