Safety demands a deep knowledge and application of effective hazard analysis methods. In this highly interactive course, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your basic understanding of process hazard analysis and learn how to extend order-of-magnitude scenario risk calculations to other uses. Join Robert Johnson – primary author of the CCPS book Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 3RD Edition – and take a detailed look at the HAZOP Study and other PHA methods and engage in exercises that give you hands-on experience applying key concepts learned. You may take this advanced course sequentially with CCPS' HAZOP Studies and Other PHA Techniques for Process Safety and Risk Management (CH157) or separately.
Beyond the basics
In two days, you’ll work with a team to learn and practice the PHA techniques successfully being applied in the process safety industry today. Using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet provided during the course, you’ll document and analyze HAZOP Studies. You’ll then modify your spreadsheet to include findings and recommendations as pseudo safeguards. You’ll also examine the concept of importance measures applied to PHAs and how to use a PHA to identify safety instrumented systems (SIS) and safety integrity levels (SIL). You’ll conclude the course by reporting your HAZOP Study results in a team presentation before other course participants.
When you attend this course, you’ll also receive the CCPS book Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis.
Save $795 or more when you take both this course and CH157: HAZOP Studies and Other PHA Techniques for Process Safety and Risk Management by registering for CH759: HAZOP Studies, Other Hazard Evaluation Procedures and Advanced Concepts Combo Course.
Note: For face-to-face in-person format, attendees will receive an electronic version of the textbook if registering within 3 weeks of the course start date due to printing and shipping time constraints.
Learning Outcomes:
- Draw a bow tie / barrier diagram using a standardized approach.
- Use Excel spreadsheets and apply the cause-by-cause HAZOP Study approach to analyze an example process.
- Calculate risk analysis importance measures.
- Determine the required safety integrity level for a safety instrumented function.
- Identify what can go wrong in a process having chemical reactivity hazards.
- Employ readily available resources to estimate the effects of various loss events.
Who Should Attend:
- Chemical engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Process engineers
- Process safety/risk managers
- Facility managers
Day One
8:00 - 8:30
Registration
8:30 - 9:00
Introductions; course overview
9:00 - 10:00
Bow-Tie Analysis
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 3:00
Conditional modifiers; HAZOP/LOPA
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 5:00
HAZOP/LOPA of example process (workshop exercise)
Day Two
8:00 - 10:00
Concept of importance measures applied to PHAs (workshop exercise)
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Using a PHA to identify Safety Instrumented Systems and determine Safety Integrity Levels
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30
Tools for assessing impacts of PHA scenarios
2:30 - 3:00
Evaluating chemical reactivity hazards in PHAs
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 4:30
Additional topics of interest; course wrap-up
Times displayed are in EST. For questions, please email academy@aiche.org
Day One
8:30 - 9:00
Introductions; course overview
9:00 - 10:00
Bow-Tie Analysis
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 3:00
Conditional modifiers; HAZOP/LOPA
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 5:00
HAZOP/LOPA of example process (workshop exercise)
Day Two
8:00 - 10:00
Concept of importance measures applied to PHAs (workshop exercise)
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Using a PHA to identify Safety Instrumented Systems and determine Safety Integrity Levels
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30
Evaluating chemical reactivity hazards in PHAs
2:30 - 3:00
Tools for assessing impacts of PHA scenarios
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 4:30
Additional topics of interest; course wrap-up
Day One
8:00 - 8:30
Registration
8:30 - 9:00
Introductions; course overview
9:00 - 10:00
Bow-Tie Analysis
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 3:00
Conditional modifiers; HAZOP/LOPA
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 5:00
HAZOP/LOPA of example process (workshop exercise)
Day Two
8:00 - 10:00
Concept of importance measures applied to PHAs (workshop exercise)
10:00 - 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 - 12:00
Using a PHA to identify Safety Instrumented Systems and determine Safety Integrity Levels
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30
Tools for assessing impacts of PHA scenarios
2:30 - 3:00
Evaluating chemical reactivity hazards in PHAs
3:00 - 3:15
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 4:30
Additional topics of interest; course wrap-up
A laptop is required for this course.
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