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Synopsis
The Poland workshop was held in Gdynia, close to Gdansk.
This was the first SIPI workshop to be held within an Accession
State and drew the largest attendance to date, 37 attendees.
It was held in co-operation with CIOP, GUT, PIAP, PSRA as
TLG’s and contributors IASE, MPCo. The two-day event was
also notable in being the first to use the services of a
translator. The workshop ran in parallel to an international
safety and reliability conference (CONBiN03) and the workshop
drew the largest number of presentations to-date. In addition
to the process sector, the workshop addressed issues within
the machinery and power generation sectors. A complete set
of bound workshop papers and delegate pack were provided
to all attendees prior to the event reflecting the professionalism
of the TLG members.
Professor
Missala, who is a member of the IEC standards committee,
provided a short but stimulating presentation on the legal
aspects and standardization related to functional safety
within the Polish industry.
During
day 1 the keynote speaker was Witold Glodek from MPCo, who
presented a technical paper covering issues in implementing
the standard.
During
day 2, three presentations (Zdzislaw Zurakowski, Marek Dziarek,
Kazimierz Kosmowski) coupled with breakout groups and culminating
in a fifteen-point forward action plan ensured that this
event was a success.
The
TLG members agreed to continue to support SIPI and stated
that SIPI Poland will be successful because in the situation
of dynamic changes in technologies and new interdisciplinary
challenges to be solved with regard to productivity, reliability
and safety, more and more organisations will be interested
in rational solving of functional safety problems. The TLG
are ready to contribute in developing the final version
of guiding principles for IEC 61508 and related standards.
The
workshop identified a number of areas for follow-on work
aimed at designing intelligent software tools to support
the design and operation of safety related systems including
risk assessment under uncertainty (methodology, data, models)
and cost-benefit analysis.
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