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Course Content.
- Past incidents: Flixborough, Bhopal, Piper Alpha and Milford Haven
- COMAH and Seveso II: a practical overview of COMAH regulations
- Consequence analysis: understand the consequences of a release of noxious gas into the environment
- Major accident hazards to the environment: examples and methods to assess risk
- Source terms: gas dispersion, vapour cloud explosion and other consequence models
- Predictive models and typical incidents: vapour cloud explosions, flash fires, pool fires and BLEVE fireballs
- Toxicity, thermal radiation and overpressure
- Aspects of off-shore emergency planning: off-shore hazards, competency & environmental factors, co-operation amongst rescue services and PFEER (Prevention of Fire & Explosion & Emergency Response) regulations
- Aspects of emergency planning for major chemical hazards
- Preparing on-site and off-site emergency plans
- Emergency exercises and drills
- Emergency plans for the chemical industry: the local authority role
- Risk assessment: individual and societal risk, risk evaluation and risk criteria
- Transportation of dangerous goods
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A major hazard release or emergency can be catastrophic.
On this short course you will learn practical risk assessment that will enable you to minimise the chance of this happening or limit the effect of the release. It also gives practical advice about emergency procedures and drills.
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