Bowtie Risk Management

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Analyse hazard scenarios by applying the bowtie method and designing a bowtie diagram
2. Develop integrity assurance for bowtie barriers
3. Devise risk acceptance criteria for hazards in bowties

Outline
– Introduction to risk assessment and bowties
– The bowtie method
– Assuring barrier integrity
– Effectiveness and ALARP for bowties
– Benefits and practical uses of bowties
– Facilitating bowtie workshops
– Bowtie software tools

Incident Investigation & Analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate a thorough grounding in the underlying theories behind accident cause analysis
2. Apply the investigation and analysis process to determine the sequence of events and the causes of an incident
3. Critically analyse published incident and accident reports including the recommendations

Outline
– Introduction
– Immediate actions in the event of an accident
– Planning the investigation
– Collecting data
– Data organisation/analysis
– Corrective actions
– Concluding the analysis

Common Safety Method

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate expertise in safety management using key terms such as “hazard”, “consequence”, and “risk”
2. Understand Tolerability, ALARP and compliance with UK legislation
3. Evaluate the significance of a change and the interaction with Hazard Identification techniques
4. Understand the elements of the Common Safety Method Risk Evaluation and Assessment process

Outline
Introduction to Risk Management
CSM Overview, Context and Significance Decision
Implementation of CSM.

Oil & Gas and Process Industry QRA

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Design QRA models incorporating appropriate input data and assumptions
2. Use QRA to analyse the risk to personnel
3. Compare QRA results with criteria and use to devise and evaluate potential risk reduction measures

Outline
– Introduction to QRA
– Identify release scenarios
– Frequency assessment, event trees
– Consequence modelling (including immediate and time-dependent effects)
– Risk analysis
– Non-process hazards
– Risk criteria
– Sensitivity studies
– QRA software

Culture, Behaviour & Competency

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Determine and justify the elements of, and requirements for, competency management and evaluate the relationship between competency, training and resourcing
2. Critically review the importance of culture and behaviour in the workplace
3. Demonstrate how culture, behaviour and competency can be successfully managed in the workplace

Outline
– Competency management
– Training and resourcing
– Organisational culture
– Human behaviour
– Organisational change management
– Examples of major accidents / accident causes

Oil & Gas and Process Industry Risk Studies

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Critically review the use of specialist risk studies in the oil, gas and process industries
2. Apply specialist risk studies to simple oil, gas and process industry operations to analyse the risks to personnel
3. Compare study results with criteria and use to devise and evaluate potential risk reduction measures

Outline
– Introduction to risk studies
– Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment (FERA)
– Smoke and gas dispersion
– Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Analysis (EERA)
– TR Impairment Assessment (TRIA)
– Occupied Building Risk Assessment (OBRA)
– Dropped object analysis
– Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA)
– Ship collision analysis
– Transportation risk study

Emergency Response & Crisis Management

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Define the requirements and importance of Emergency and Crisis Response Management
2. Discuss aspects of integrated emergency management
3. Generate appropriate emergency and crisis response documentation

Outline
– Emergency management basics
– Emergency anticipation and assessment
– Emergency prevention and mitigation
– Emergency preparations – planning, organisation, training, documentation, mutual aid, drills & exercises, etc.
– Emergency response and recovery
– Crisis management overview

Physical Effects Modelling

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Analyse an industrial plant/installation to determine expected physical effects in the event of an incident
2. Evaluate, by applying physical effects modelling techniques, how these physical effects affect people and plant
3. Justify which of the available modelling techniques/ software is appropriate to analyse physical effects in different circumstances, whilst understanding the limitations of these techniques

Outline
– What are physical effects and why model them?
– Source term release and discharge calculation
– Dispersion analysis
– Fire modelling
– Explosion modelling
– Subsea releases/dispersion
– Human and plant vulnerability to physical effects
– Commercial and public domain software tools

Engineered Risk Control Systems (Oil & Gas)

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Analyse process plant to logically deduce relevant Engineered Risk Control Systems (ERCSs/SECEs)
2. Devise performance requirements/standards of ERCSs/SECEs
3. Illustrate how ERCSs/SECEs contribute to sustaining technical integrity over the lifetime of an asset

Outline
– Introduction to ERCSs
– Identification of ERCSs
– Criticality ranking
– Performance standards
– Performance assurance & verification
– Performance monitoring
– Integrity throughout facility lifetime

Principles of Risk Management

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Deconstruct the risk management process into its constituent components
2. Contrast key risk management terms such as “hazard”, “consequence” and “risk”
3. Evaluate the various drivers which cause organisations to manage risk
4. Demonstrate expertise in academic referencing (postgraduate programme only)

Outline
– Drivers for risk management
– Definitions and terminology
– Elements of the risk management process
– Demonstration of ALARP
– Example tools, techniques and studies
– The HSE case (or safety case) and HSE management system
– Leadership, culture and behaviours
– Causes of major accidents

Fault Tree & Event Tree Analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Consider when it is appropriate to apply fault tree analysis and event tree analysis
2. Design and analyse fault tree models incorporating appropriate reliability data for components, human error and dependent failures
3. Generate and analyse event tree models

Outline Content
– Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis
– Fault Tree construction
– Minimal cut sets
– Basic event reliability data
– Dependent failures and human errors
– Fault Tree quantification
– Fault Tree analysis advantages & disadvantages
– Introduction to event tree analysis
– Event Tree construction and quantification
– Fault and Event Tree software

Rail Industry Hazards & Risks

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Deconstruct the risk management process into its constituent components and contrast key risk management terms such as “hazard”, “consequence” and “risk”
2. Evaluate the various drivers which cause railway organisations to manage risk
3. Understand the principle sources of hazards and evaluate the risks which typically arise during rail industry projects
4. Apply knowledge of these hazards and the available mitigations to the management of risk within rail projects

Outline
– Risk Management introduction or refresher
– Rail industry sources of risk
– Collisions between trains
– Standard Mitigations
– Regulatory regimes/requirements
– Overview of Risk Assessment Tools and Techniques used in the industry

Functional Safety of Safety-Related Systems

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Define safety functions and target Safety Integrity Level (SIL) requirements which will reduce the associated risks to a tolerable level
2. Apply the analysis methodologies to ensure that, when implemented, the safety systems achieve specified risk reduction targets
3. Logically deduce how the level of risk reduction achieved by a safety system could be improved and when risk has been reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)

Outline Content
– Introduction to functional safety – background, terminology and aims
– The Safety Lifecycle (IEC 61508 view)
– Hazard & risk analysis techniques
– SIL selection (setting targets and requirements)
– Safety requirements specification development
– SIL and the design process
– Beyond design lifecycle phases
– Compliance demonstration
– Safety/project lifecycle management

Rail Safety Analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
– Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of risk management and its relevance to the rail industry
– Apply techniques to evaluate risk of the rail environment from both design and operation aspects
– Generate a quantitative and/or qualitative rail formal safety assessment

Outline
– Introduction to safety and risk in the rail industry
– Identifying and assessing railway hazards and risks
– Potential escalation events e.g. speed, derailment
– Human factors and safety management
– Organisational responsibilities
– Risk reduction and criteria
– Novel risk modelling and decision-making techniques

Hazard Identification

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Assess the role of hazard identification in the risk management process
2. Critically review the tools and techniques available to carry out effective hazard identification at each lifecycle stage
3. Design a fit-for-purpose hazard identification study

Outline Content
– Basic concepts
– Overview of hazard identification techniques
– Hazard identification through the project lifecycle
– Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
– Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies
– HAZID/checklist approach
– HAZID versus HAZOP
– Making recommendations

Reliability, Availability & Maintainability Analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Identify and apply the analysis methodologies to systems and sub-systems, including both design and operation restrictions, to determine the Availability, Reliability and Maintainability of these Systems
2. Critically review and balance the requirements of the design for RAM and safety
3. Logically deduce how RAM results for a system may be improved

Outline
– Introduction to Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM)
– Availability and safety; potential conflicts
– RAM planning and choice of methodology
– RAM assessment methods; deterministic
– Numerical RAM assessment techniques
– Critical and life-limited items
– Maintainability and maintainability demonstrations
– Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
– Methods of improving reliability

HAZOP Study

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Critically review the HAZOP technique and examples of output
2. Analyse how the HAZOP technique can be applied at the different stages of a project’s lifecycle such as FEED, detailed design, revalidation and decommissioning
3. Prepare for a HAZOP workshop, determine the skills and actions necessary to lead a HAZOP and how to generate a HAZOP report

Outline
– Introduction to risk assessment
– Basic engineering terminology
– Process safety incidents – lessons learned
– HAZOP: what, when, how, guidewords and parameters, nodding, teams, roles and responsibilities
– Recording methods, software, reporting and close-out
– Overview of the LOPA technique
– Major HAZOP studies, minor modification studies
– Common failings in HAZOPs, Limitations of HAZOPs
– Leading HAZOP teams
– Other forms of HAZOP: procedures, batch operations

Risk Analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Logically deduce the most appropriate risk assessment tool or technique to be used, depending on circumstances
2. Apply certain risk assessment techniques
3. Critically review example risk assessments and techniques

Outline
– Identifying and recording hazards
– The risk assessment matrix
– Risk analysis and risk reduction through project or facility lifecycle
– Significance of environmental aspects; environmental risk assessment
– Human factors in design
– Health risk assessment (HRA)
– Security risk assessment
– Business and/or commercial risk assessment
– Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) techniques
– Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessment
– Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
– External hazards, good practice in risk analysis

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Discuss the key factors to be considered when developing an HSE MS
2. Assess the role of HSE MSs in reducing the probability and consequences of major accidents
3. Examine issues associated with the implementation of HSE MSs

Outline
– Definition of an HSE MS
– Elements of an HSE MS
– Guidance and legislation
– Implementation aspects
– Documenting and implementing the HSE MS

Risk Reduction & ALARP

At the end of the course you should be able to:
– Identify different options available for risk reduction
– Decide when risk reduction measures can best be used
– Describe the concepts of “tolerability of risk” and “As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)”
– Apply the ALARP concept and conduct an ALARP assessment to an appropriate level of detail

Outline
– Risk management summary
– Hierarchy of risk reduction measures
– Risk reduction through the project lifecycle
– The ALARP concept
– Demonstrating ALARP
– Qualitative and semi-quantitative approaches
– Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
– Societal risk

Human Factors in Design & Operations

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Analyse the role of HF in systems engineering in order to achieve safe and effective designs, systems and processes
2. Evaluate the human characteristics which influence a user’s experience of the workplace environment to ensure it is comfortable, healthy, safe and effective (accounting for physical 3. and psychological capabilities and limitations)
4. Evaluate human error types (including violation) and their potential causes
5. Appraise human reliability and performance using appropriate methods in order to develop measures to reduce the likelihood of human error

Outline
– Introduction to Human Factors
– Human Factors integration (HFI)
– Human Factors support to the design lifecycle for high hazard industries
– Defining human error
– Human error and violations
– Human Reliability Analysis (HRA)

Safety/HSE Cases

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Critically review the reasons for having Safety Cases and the role of the Safety Case
2. Justify the contents of a Safety Case
3. Discuss the key factors to be considered when planning a Safety Case

Outline
– Historical drivers
– Legal requirements: UK, Europe, worldwide
– Company and industry body requirements
– Differing types of case by project phase (e.g. PSR, PCSR, design, operational, decommissioning)
– Safety Case structure and approach by industry
– Bridging documents
– Links between the case and supporting studies and the case and the management system
– Documentation, management and maintenance of the Safety Case
– Roll-out and implementation
– Features of a fit-for-purpose Safety Case

Hydrogen Safety Assurance

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Have an understanding of the hydrogen hazard, its specific characteristics and challenges.
2. Understand how established risk assessment tools and techniques can be applied to hydrogen schemes, with appreciation of the limitation of these techniques.
3. Understand how to demonstrate that risks associated with hydrogen are managed to ALARP.

Outline
– Introduction to Hydrogen
– Risk management for Hydrogen
– Qualitative risk assessment for Hydrogen
– Quantitative risk assessment for Hydrogen
– Safety Management Planning

Workplace Safety

At the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Apply appropriate techniques to develop a documented workplace safety assessment
2. Consider alternative approaches to workplace safety management
3. Apply the concept of tolerability of risk and As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) to workplace hazard management

Outline
– Drivers for continuous improvement in workplace safety
– Workplace hazards
– Task risk assessment / job safety analysis
– Permit to work systems
– Behavioural safety systems, e.g. STOP
– Hazardous chemicals and goods
– Personal protective equipment
– Hazardous area classification