Good Automated Safety Practice

International standard BS EN 61511, "Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector", demands a whole-of-life approach to process plant and safety management. But "whole-of-life" is too much for busy managers to see at a glance. By presenting the bigger picture from cradle to grave, Good Automated Safety Practice - or GASP for short - provides a functional safety life cycle model that allows busy executives to benefit from BS EN 61511 without getting lost in the detail. It helps them to reduce business risk and to meet current regulatory expectations. In introducing the GASP model, this paper describes the functional safety life cycle phases and the activities that are necessary to satisfy the standard.