Course Objectives and outcomes.

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to gain the required information and knowledge regarding:

• The fundamentals of process safety
• Process safety standards
• The importance of process safety
• Hazard and risk 
• Hazard identification process (HAZID)
• Toxicology
• Concepts of fires and explosion prevention
• Chemical reactivity
• ‘Reliefers’ and relief sizing
• Case histories
• Risk matrix, HAZOP, LOPA, Fault tree analysis, and Bow tie analysis
• Safety procedures and design.

Course Outlines

Module (01) Process safety

• What is process safety?
• Importance of process safety 
• Process safety management 
• Hazard and risk
• Types of hazards
• Risk Management Plan
• Accident and loss statistics
• Types of chemical plant accidents
• Identify the initiation, propagation, and termination steps for accident
• Process safety standards
• Historical accidents: Flixborough, England, Bhopal, India,  Seveso, Italy Pasadena, Texas, Texas City, Texas,  Jacksonville, Florida, and  Port Wentworth, Georgia

Module (02) Hazards Identification

• Hazard identification process
• Hazards identification and risk assessment procedure
• Process hazards checklists
• Hazop and the Dow F&EI analysis
• Safety Reviews
• What-if analysis, human error analysis, and failure mode, effects, and  criticality analysis (FMECA)
• Hazid standards

Module (03) Risk analysis for chemical process   

• Fault tree analysis
• The layer of protection analysis (LOPA)
• Risk matrix
• Bow tie analysis

Module (04) Toxicology

• Effects of toxicants
• Threshold limit values
• Evaluating exposures to volatile toxicants
• Evaluating worker exposures to dust
• Evaluating worker exposures to noise
• Estimating worker exposures to toxic Vapours
• Estimating worker exposures during vessel filling operations
• Toxic release and dispersion models
• Chemical plant industrial hygiene method

Module (05) Chemical reactivity

• Types of hazards in chemical processing
• Chemical reaction hazards
• Reaction calorimetry            
• Controlling Reactive Hazards

Module (06) Fires and explosions 

• The fire triangle
• The distinction between fires and explosions
• Fire and explosion definitions
• Flammability characteristics of liquids and vapours
• Limiting Oxygen concentration and inerting
• Flammability diagram
• Explosions
• Ignition energy and sources
• Autoignition and Auto-Oxidation
• Adiabatic compression

Module (07) Fires and explosions  prevention

• Inerting
• Sprinkler Systems
• Controlling Static Electricity

 Module (08) Case histories  

• Static electricity
• Chemical reactivity
• System designs
• Procedures

Module (09) ‘Reliefers’ and relief sizing

• Relief concepts
• Definitions
• Location of reliefs
• Relief types and characteristics
• Relief sizing
• Relief standards

Module (10) Safety procedures and design

• Approaches to inherently safer design in the chemical industry
• Examples of inherently safe Process design
• Safe procedures: Operating, permits, safety reviews and accident investigation controls

Intended recipients and min max numbers

This course is designed for individuals who aim or work as managers, engineers, safety supervisors and employers, academic researchers or personnel who design, operate, control and maintain industrial chemical plants.

Course Certification

Your CBRN Academy instructor will issue a signed certificate of training completion to all successful participants at the end of the course. To qualify for the official Certificate, the student must attend and complete all assessments and score 80% or more.

Course Methodology

Practical sessions, scenarios, classroom lessons, case studies, videos, presentations, participant engagement and equipment familiarisation.

Course numbers and quotations

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