Welcome to Inside Functional Safety, 

This magazine is your key to professional functional safety success. Use it to update your knowledge or become an author yourself and share your knowledge. The interest in the magazine keeps surprising us. We notice that a lot of your colleagues are eager for more information.

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We are currently working on the second issue planned for the 3rd quarter this year. In the second issue we will again have an interesting mix of papers. Just to give you a sneak preview of what is coming in the printed version of the magazine:

• Knowledge-based support of HAZOP studies using a CAEX plant model, Alexander Fay, Till Schmidberger, Thomas Scherf

• Partial Stroke Testing of Safety and Critical Valves, Lawrence Beckman

• The Influence of Functional Safety and Metrological Standards on Gas Detection Systems, Dieter Wenker

• Alarm Annunciators in SIL Safety systems, Darren Barratt

• Determining the Probability of Failure on Demand for Heterogeneous, Combined BPCS and SIS Systems, Markus Weber

And more...