A well-known marketing rule is that, on average, you have to come into contact with a message seven times before you decide to buy a product. After all, a message is easily lost between all the stimuli that we have to deal with all day long.<\/p>\n
Nowadays we get no less than 3,000 messages fired at us every day. Varying from LinkedIn ads to dozens of e-mails. And if you want the information to get stuck between all those stimuli and noise, then the message has to arrive at the recipient several times. Especially when information is of fundamental importance, as in the case of functional safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n If functional safety processes<\/a> within a plant are incorrectly followed up, a snowball effect can occur with undesirable consequences. That is why Yokogawa has been offering functional safety training courses for decades. A field in which people must be able to identify potentially dangerous process situations or undesirable process events in order to prevent accidents<\/a> with sometimes major consequences for people, the environment and finances.<\/p>\n But what if this safety training is only followed once by someone who is responsible for safety within a plant<\/a>? And even after one training session a ‘certificate for life’ is obtained? That sounds far from safe. Everyone knows how fast the world is currently changing. And although slower, the process industry<\/a> is not lagging behind and is changing along with it. Take, for example, the IEC standards relating to process safety: they change roughly every 10 years.<\/p>\n The safety experience of Yokogawa trainers goes back to the ’60s of the last century. They know better than anyone that if functional safety is not your full-time job, your specific functional safety knowledge will quickly fade away. And so it is with almost all students that they have had in their training. These people are not 100% occupied with functional safety in their daily work, but maybe 5% or 10%.<\/p>\n [ot-video]Snowball effect within functional safety<\/h2>\n
Functional safety knowledge does not standstill<\/h2>\n
T\u00dcV Rheinland opts for the power of repetition<\/h2>\n