Safety Technology & Risk Management
Course Code: HS13
Course Objective
- Apply the principles of hazard identification and assessment of risk to processes and machinery
- Understand reliability concept and use of failure tracing methods
- Demonstrate a practical understanding of a quantitative risk assessment technique and the date required for records
- Advise management on the most effective control methods based on the evaluation of risk
- Identify the general requirement for development of safe system of work
- Recognise relevant International Standards for Reliability and Machinery Safety
Target Audience
- Plant Professionals
- Engineers
- Designers
- All Professionals who has a contribution to make in ensuring the safe operation of a potential high hazard workplace
Course Outline
DAY 1: Hazard Identification
- Introduction and course overview
- Why do we need safety engineering
- Examples of major disasters
- The safety system process
- Hazard identification
- Hazard control
- Criteria for risk tolerability
- Hazard Identification Techniques
- Design out hazards
- Safety standards codes, national and international
- Safety analysis in engineering
- Safety analysis in Chemical process
- Safety analysis in manufacturing
DAY 2: Risk Assessment Techniques
- Safety Management
- Safety in system life cycle
- Hazard identification check-list
- Process, workplace, work equipment risk assessment
- Task-based risk assessment
- Introduction to HAZOP
DAY 3: Machinery and Work Equipment Safety
- Machinery hazard identification
- Causes and methods for machinery accident prevention
- HAZOP examples
- Failure modes, human factors and software safety
- Conducting a failure mode and effective analysis
- Human factors safety analysis
- Performance and human error
- Human factors and safety analysis
DAY 4: Reliability Technology
- Types and causes of failures
- Methods of preventing failure
- Types of maintenance and inspection regimes
- Reliability of components and systems
- Design and reliability of control systems
- Design and reliability of protective systems
- The concept of ‘HIPS’
- Safety Integrity Levels ‘SIL’ selection
DAY 5: Consequences Analysis
- Mechanics of fire, explosion and toxic releases
- Dispersion modelling software
- Types of fire: flash, jet, cascading fires and BLEVE
- Types of explosion
- Quantification of risk
- Event Tree Analysis ‘ETA’
- Course Summary
- Course Review
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