COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course
includes real-life case studies and exercises where
participants will be engaged in a series of
interactive small groups and class workshops.
The escape of toxic methyl isocyanate vapour from the
Union Carbide India Limited plant at Bhopal in India on
December 1984 was the most serious process plant
incident in history, causing thousands of deaths and
many tens of thousands of severe injuries, many of
them causings permanent incapacity. This and the
explosion at the Phillips Petroleum polyethylene plant
at Pasadena on 23 October 1989, which killed 23
people and injured hundreds more, alerted
management and governments to the need for much
more than traditional occupational safety and health
programs to provide safety for those working in, or
living around, process plants.
Loss prevention is not only concerned with incidents
that cause injury to people. It covers all forms of loss,
including damage to the environment and property, and
interruption to production caused by major failures of a
plant, even when there is no injury to people or
damage to the surroundings. Avoidance or
minimization of the risks of all these types of incident is
embraced by the field of Industrial Plant Risk and
Reliability Management.
There are many reasons why organizations may be concerned with managing their
risks. These range from avoidance of injury or the cost of replacing damaged
equipment, to such matters as maintaining a good public image or avoiding legal
claims or prosecution of senior managers for negligence.
This course is designed to cover the latest techniques in risk management (the systematic
approach to identifying hazards, assessing the risks from each, and targeting resources to
prevent accidents), and reliability management in process plants, and production facilities.