Safety Technology and Risk Management

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

Risk Assessment Techniques
• Safety Management
• Safety in system life cycle
• Hazard identification check-list
• Process, workplace, work equipment risk assessment
• Task-based risk assessment
• Introduction to HAZOP

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 effective analysis
• Human factors safety analysis
• Performance and human error
• Human factors and safety analysis

Reliability Technology
• Types and causes of failures
• Methods of preventing failure
• Types of maintenance and inspection regimes
• Reliability of components and systems
• Design and reliability of control systems
• Design and reliability of protective systems
• The concept of ‘HIPS’
• Safety Integrity Levels ‘SIL’ selection

Consequences Analysis
• Mechanics of fire, explosion and toxic releases
• Dispersion modelling software
• Types of fire: flash, jet, cascading fires and BLEVE
• Types of explosion
• Quantification of risk
• Event Tree Analysis ‘ETA’