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Hazard Study Leadership Course

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Location	Dates	Duration	Tuition
Karachi	TBA	5 days	Contact Us
Lahore	TBA	5 days	Contact Us
Islamabad	TBA	5 days	Contact Us

TARGET AUDIENCE:

The course is suitable for engineers at middle management with 5-10 years of plant experience. It provides an insight for the study on identification and minimization/elimination of hazards at the work place.

COURSE DESIGN:

The course covers all six stages of the ICI hazard study process – of which HAZOP is stage No.3. This is a particularly comprehensive training course as it covers the preliminary hazard studies, which can be carried out when the project is still at the conceptual stage, and also hazard studies of existing operating plant. This is often useful to managers of existing older plants who are seeking assurance that safety risks have been identified and assessed and that the risks are being suitably managed.

The course covers three aspects of leading Hazard Studies:

1. Knowledge of the techniques of the Hazard Study process so the leader can lead the project team through the various studies.
2. Skills in the running of Hazard Studies – this picks up the behavioural / group dynamics part of the study leading role in getting the best out of the Hazard Study team. Also, skills on how to avoid pitfalls, and to drive full benefit out of the exercise.
3. Some technical expertise in risk management / loss prevention. This covers such topics as fire and toxic hazards, tolerability of risk, inherent safety, reliability of instrumented protective systems, hazard analysis, human error, etc. This helps the team leader also to be a more effective loss prevention advisor to the Hazard Study team as it makes decisions through the course of the study.

The course is a combination of presentations, videos, case studies, and syndicate exercises.

The course outline is as follows:

1. Attendee Introductions & Individual Objectives
2. Major Industrial Accidents & Lessons Learnt
3. Why Accidents Happen?
4. Hazard Studies – The History
5. ICI Hazard Studies (1 to 6)
6. Video – Piper Alpha
7. Piper Alpha Incident Learning & Discussion
8. Type of Hazards
9. Hazard Identification Techniques
10. Hazard Study 1
11. Syndicate Exercises – Hazard Study 1
12. Inherent Safety
13. Video – Inherent Safety
14. Syndicate Exercise – Inherent Safety
15. Hazard Study 2
16. Syndicate Exercise – Hazard Study 2
17. Risk Assessment
18. Quantify Risk
19. Tolerability of Risk
20. Hazard Study 3
21. Defining Nodes
22. Parameters & Guidewords
23. Identifying Causes
24. Evaluating Consequence
25. Existing Safeguards
26. Risk Ranking
27. Recommendations
28. Recording
29. Syndicate Exercises – HAZOP
30. Hazard Study – Batch Processes
31. Syndicate Exercise – HAZOP for Batch Process
32. Hazard Study of Programable Electronic System (PES)
33. Hazard Study of Package Units
34. Syndicate Exercises – HAZOP
35. Hazard Study 4, 5 & 6
36. Video – Flixborough Explosion
37. Flixborough Incident Learning & Discussion
38. Dependency
39. Syndicate Exercise – Dependency
40. Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
41. Introduction to Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
42. Organizing HAZOP Study
43. The limitations of HAZOP
44. Team Leading
45. Review of the Course
46. Hazard Study Quiz End of Course

TRAINING OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course participants will:

• Learn the Hazard Study process
• Become aware about the tolerability risk criteria of chemical plants
• Become aware of the planning and organizing process for doing hazard studies
• Knowledge of the techniques of the Hazard Study process so the leader can lead the project team through the various studies.
• Skills in the running of Hazard Studies – this picks up the behavioural / group dynamics part of the study leading role in getting the best out of the Hazard Study team. Also, skills on how to avoid pitfalls, and to drive full benefit out of the exercise.
• Learn about the various types of hazards, methods of recording and handling problems and methods for conducting hazard studies
• Gain an insight about the various affecting factors and pitfalls of hazard studies
• Understand the benefits of hazard studies

Course Presenter

Fayyaz Moazzam, Principal Consultant with PetroRisk Middle East, Abu Dhabi has over 30 years of experience in chemical, petrochemicals, oil & gas Industry including roles in process design, plant operations, process re-engineering and process safety. He has chaired over 250 Risk Assessment, Hazard Identification and Process Safety workshops worldwide and ran numerous training courses. Mr. Moazzam is a certified practitioner for HAZOP & SIL studies from Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK, TUV Germany and CFSE Governance Board, USA.