Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Introduction to Risk Assessment
- Training Seminar Introduction: Delegate and Instructor Introductions; Training Seminar Objectives
- The Concepts of Hazards, Risk and Risk Assessment
- Methods for Risk Evaluation
- Integrating Risk Assessment within Risk Management
- Qualitative, Semi-Quantitative and Quantitative Risk Assessment Methodologies
Risk Assessment Techniques: HAZOP
- Introduction to Hazards Identification and Analysis Techniques
- Techniques for Hazard Identification and Analysis – HAZOP
- Where and When to Use HAZOP and the Requirements for a Successful HAZOP Study
- Team Composition for HAZOP Studies
- Guide Words and Process variables used for HAZOP Studies
HAZOP Leadership Techniques
- HAZOP Team Leader / Facilitator Requirements
- HAZOP Scribe Requirements
- Facilitating HAZOP Studies - do’s and don’ts
- Information required to allow Successful HAZOP Studies
- Review of Commercial Software used for HAZOP and Management of Change ‘MOC’
Consequence Analysis
- Theory Behind Fire, Explosion and Toxic Dispersion Modelling Utilised in Quantitative Risk Assessments
- Types of Fires and their Effects on People and Equipment
- Types of Explosions and their Effects on People and Equipment
- Review of Software available for Consequence Calculations
The Role of QRA
- Introduction to Quantified Risk Assessment “QRA”
- The Role of Event Tree Analysis in Scenario Development
- The Role of Fault Tree Analysis for Multi-causation Analysis
- Applications for ETA and FTA
- Failure Data for Use in QRA’s
- Societal Risk and Individual Risk
- Review of Software available for Quantitative Risk Assessments
- Report Back on Day 5 and Discussion
- Programme Review and the Way Ahead
