Introduction to Process Safety

• Technical, commercial and management staff that require a high level technical overview of process safety in the hydrocarbon processing industry
• Personnel within the industry
• Technical support staff entering the industry
• Technical staff who want to expand their understanding of the industry
• Anyone who would like to develop a broad understanding of process safety




• Define process safety and the human, environmental and business consequences of poor process safety
• Apply a simple model for analysing process safety incidents
• Describe process safety hazards and risk
• Describe the elements of a modern process safety management system and how such systems are organised
• The final objective at the end of the course is to create a broad understanding of the tools and problem solving techniques used in process safety. The delegates should achieve the following four key learning outcomes

Hazards of Hydrocarbon

• Hazards of the Loss of Containment of Liquid Hydrocarbons
• Hydrocarbon Gas Leaks – Dispersion and Detection
• Hydrocarbon Ignition
• Hydrocarbon Fires
• Hydrocarbon Explosions

Importance of Process Safety

• Importance of process safety
• Process safety in design
• Asset integrity
• A review of some of the major process safety incidents in the industry and Lessons learned
• Using incident data to make risk-based decisions

Process Safety Protection systems

• Inherently Safe Design (ISD)
• Active protection systems
• Passive protection systems
• Procedural protective systems
• Layers of Protection
  

Process Monitoring and Control

• Fire and Gas Detection
• Alarm systems
• SIL levels and safety instrumented systems
• Control loops e.g. anti-surge control
• Shutdown and Suppression systems