COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

Old approaches to safe design in the process industry relied on the application of codes of practice and the design was usually based upon experience from specialists and operators in the industry. Such methods were able only to take into account problems and accidents that had already happened. With introduction of new technologies, unconventional design, complex plants and short operating experience, a proper PHA study is now a mandatory tool to identify potential hazards and operability problems. 

 

PHA is a systematic multidisciplinary team study intended to identify and analyze the significance of potential process hazards and make initial recommendations for eliminating hazards, for reducing the consequences of potential accidents and for improving general facility safety. 

 

PHA methods are used for new plants as well as for modifications to existing design. The methods have been developed primarily for the process industry and have been applied in great scale in the Oil and Gas sector. However, the PHA techniques are now applied with success for other industries such as offshore construction, power and water projects, space and military industries, and environment studies. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of process hazard and risk analysis (PH&RA).  It covers the root cause analysis; some basic risk concepts; the safety integrity level (SIL); the hazard evaluation guidelines; the hazard identification (HAZID); the PHA-HAZOP study preparations; the            PHA-HAZOP study team; and the design issues. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn fault tree analysis (FTA); the LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) and the semi-quantitative approach to risk assessment; the checklist method for PHA; the What-If Analysis; and the HAZOP study.