Functional safety beyond compliance: A lifestyle commitment
“With a proven track record of protecting critical infrastructure, from the nation’s largest LNG producers and mining operations to national railway operators, and more than 20 years of local Australian engineering support, HIMA has established itself as a trusted functional safety solutions partner in Australia.”
Bhushan Sathe, General Manager, RegionAustralia and New Zealand
Keeping people, environment and assets safe
Mining and refining are some of the world’s most demanding industries. Every day, people work with heavy machinery, high temperatures, hazardous materials and large-scale processing equipment. In these environments, even a small problem can quickly become a serious safety incident, damage equipment or cause costly production downtime.
Managing these risks is essential for protecting people, maintaining reliable operations and meeting regulatory requirements.
Effective risk management requires a structured approach:
• Identifying potential hazards
• Analysing potential accident scenarios
• Assessing likelihood and consequence
• Implementing multiple, independent layers of protection
At the core of these protection layers lies one of the most critical safeguards available to operators: Safety Instrumented Systems(SIS).
Understanding functional safety and the role of SIS
Functional safety is not a one off engineering activity. It is a lifecycle discipline. SIS, working on this principle, are a dedicated, independent control system designed solely for risk reduction and therefore protection. Unlike basic process control systems (BPCS), SIS are engineered to prevent hazardous events or mitigate their consequences when abnormal conditions occur.
A SIS continuously monitors key parameters, and when any parameters exceed safe operating limits, the system automatically and decisively acts to place the process in a safe state — without relying on human intervention.
HIMA Group: trusted safety and securitypartner for more than four decades
HIMA Group has been leading technologyadvancements in the core safety systems(SIL 3/ SIL 4) that are all designed and man-ufactured in Germany ensuring uncomprom-ising quality, reliability and long term support. HIMA has been supporting Australiancustomers for more than 20 years via localteams who are now housed in a new largeroffice that allows localised inhouse training,factory testing, increased engineering,servicing and consulting services availability.
About HIMA Group
The HIMA Group, an 118-year-old German Mittelstand Company, is a global, independent provider of safety-related automation solutions for the process and rail industries that protect people, assets, and the environment from harm.
HIMA offers consulting, safety engineering and services as well as training. This results in solutions that ensure functional safety and OT security, compliance with standards, process efficiency and plant availability throughout the entire safety lifecycle. As a safety expert, HIMA is pioneering the digitalisation of functional safety and generates significant added value for customers with holistic safety solutions.
HIMA Australia serves as the regionalheadquarters for operations across Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea and delivers locally engineered solutions, tailored to the realities of Australian Industrial operations and fully compliant with all relevant International, European and Australian safety standards and regulations. A Lifecycle Commitment Functional Safety Beyond Compliance The open and independent HIMA Safety Platform combines hardware and software on a single technology platform and offers a uniform security concept. HIMA is pioneering the digitalisation of functional safety and generates significant added value for customers with holistic safety solutions.
