Introduction:
The course is designed to provide each delegate firstly with complete knowledge of the concept of Crisis Planning and all its applications and secondly a sound understanding of how to manage a crisis, be it the result of a technological failure, or from human error, or even terrorism. The course is designed to provide delegates with an introduction to the Emergency Preparedness involving the Identification of the Major Accidents Hazards, the Emergency Response Process – the Incident Command Structure/ the Emergency Response Team roles and responsibilities with providing the needed knowledge to act during an Emergency and also the needed guidelines for positive dealing with the Media in such Emergencies
Course Objectives:
- Overview of risk assessment and risk management
- Hazard and risk – Concept, definitions, and terminology
- Risk comparison: voluntary v. involuntary risks and tolerability of risks
- Types of risk: Individual, societal, economic and environmental risks
- Framework for risk assessment
- Estimation and evaluation of risks: qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantified risks
- The link between risk assessment and risk management: Framework for risk management
- 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 the development of a safe system of work
- Recognize relevant International Standards for Reliability and Machinery Safety
- Elements of risk management: Prioritizing actions, planning and implementing
- Human error and accident causation (latent and active errors): Bhopal and Piper Alpha
- Techniques for hazard identification and analysis: COSHH, check-lists, HAZOP and task-based risk assessment
- Cause-consequences analysis: the role of fault trees and event trees in accident prevention
- Review of the latest commercial software for dispersion modeling, fire, explosion, and toxic releases
- Techniques for human reliability analysis
- Preparation of action plans
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Contingency Planning process and fundamental requirements within an organization.
- Demonstrate the leadership required in the four stages of Crisis Management.
- Fully appreciate the demands of efficient and effective command and control structures during major emergencies at the Strategic, Tactical, and Operational levels.
- Identify the elements commonly encountered in a crisis: what can go right and what can go wrong?
- Identify how to discharge corporate responsibilities and the execution of decision making between the many involved departments and outside organizations, including the media.
- Demonstrate the need for coordinated planning, training, exercising, and team development.
- Prioritizing and targeting corrective and preventive measures
Who Should Attend?
- Any Personnel involved in carrying out a risk assessment and accident prevention
- Plant Professionals
- Engineers
- Designers
- All Professionals who has a contribution to make in ensuring the safe operation of a potential high hazard workplace.
- This course will be of benefit to all those who find themselves responsible for leading on, or implementing contingency planning, crisis response and/or disaster recovery mechanisms.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Risk Assessment
- Program introduction: delegate and tutor introductions; program objectives
- Introduction to HSE Management Systems
- Integrating risk assessment within Risk Management
- Semi-quantitative risk assessment techniques – machinery based
- The task-based approach to risk assessment
- Syndicate exercise: Working in small groups
Professionalism in Contingency Planning & Crisis Management & Planning
- The prime mission is to co-ordinate the disaster response activities and resources of all companies and any locally-based organizations. The visibility and successful efforts of an on-site planning coordinator play an important part in the acceptance and perception of the program by other related agencies.
- Course introduction – aims and objectives of the event;
- Philosophy and concepts of effective Crisis Management;
- The Contingency Planning Co-Ordinator – Roles and Responsibilities;
- Checklists for selecting and creating a self-directed Contingency Planning Team;
- Who should be involved? Effective leadership and ‘ownership’ of the process.
- 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
Hazard and Operability Studies ‘HAZOP’
- Introduction to hazards identification and analysis techniques
- Techniques for hazard identification and analysis – HAZOP
- Syndicate exercise – application of HAZOP to relevant processes
- Planning and implementing within the risk management system
Analysis of the consequences
- Introduction into reliability technology
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis ‘FMEA’
- Failures of Permit-to-work systems: video presentation on Piper Alpha
- Analysis of the consequences- mechanics of fire, explosion and toxic releases
- Role of Fault Tree Analysis to identify how accidents can happen
- Group exercise on FTA
Human Factors and Reliability
- Introduction to human factors and human error
- Hierarchical task analysis ‘HTA’
- Task-based HAZOP: Application to critical activities onshore and offshore
- Working in small groups on task-based HAZOPS
- Report back
- Integrating human factor within the HSE management system – The Bhopal disaster
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 effects analysis
- Human factors safety analysis
- Performance and human error
- Human factors and safety analysis
Quantified Risk Assessment
- 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
- Case Study: Working in small groups on accident analysis
- Preparation of action plans, planning and implementing
- Personal action plans, PROGRAM review and the way ahead
Risk Assessment Techniques
- Safety Management
- Safety in the system life cycle
- Hazard identification check-list
- Process, workplace, work equipment risk assessment
- Task-based risk assessment