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The ability to full understand all the hazards associated with modern chemical/processing plant is vital, this course gives you an introduction to the tools needed for hazard analysis and risk assessment.
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Course Content.
- Safety legislative framework in the UK
- Qualitative Risk Assessment (QRA): both manually and by use of specialist computer software
- Process terminology: common terminology and diagrams
- Project life-cycle: manage a project from the concept to operation
- Past incidents: past incidents at chemical plants are studied so that lessons can be learnt
- Safety Management Systems (SMS): implement effective SMS’ and the impact of risk assessment
- Hazard identification: checklists, Failure Mode Evaluation & Effects Analysis (FMEA), structured What-If (SWIFT), risk matrix
- HAZOP: identifying hazardous or unacceptable situations and quantifying them
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA): used to describe how basic events combine to cause system failures or accidents
- Event tree analysis: identify and quantify possible outcomes from an event
- Risk predictions: how to make decisions based on risk predictions and how to present them
- Average fatal risk
- F-N Curve
- Risk contours
- Fatal Accident Rate (FAR)
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