Course Description This is a combination course of Layer of Protection Analysis Safety Integrity Level For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199.     Code Start/End Dates Location 27272 Nov 8-11, 2010 ABS Institute | Houston, TX Location/Hotel Information 27940 Mar 29-Apr 1, 2011 ABS Consulting | Knoxville, TN Location/Hotel Information For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199. Course Highlights Layer of Protection Analysis Day One - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fundamentals of Risk Judgment   • Definitions Relationship of Regulations and Standards   • History of LOPA   • Relationship of qualitative and quantitative risk judgment Overview of LOPA   • What is LOPA?   • How does LOPA work?   • Examples of industry variations on LOPA Scenario Development   • Starting with hazard evaluations   • Design evaluations   • Incidents Consequences   • Limiting definitions   • Consequence categories   • Initiating Events   • Enabling conditions   • Frequency categories Independent Protection Layers   • Definitions   • Rules   • Examples Calculations   • Basics of worksheet calculations   • Workshop: Scenario evaluations Day Two - 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Case Studies   • Workshop: Pulling it all together Risk Tolerance Criteria   • Examples   • Development and implementation   • Dealing with liability concerns Special Applications   • Facility siting   • Workshops   • Safety interlocks   • Workshops Path Forward Safety Integrity Level Day One - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Introduction   • OSHA and EPA regulations   • CCPS guideline documents   • ANSI SP 84 Developing the System Requirements   • How to evaluate consequences of system failure   • Layers of protection and LOPA   • Safety integrity levels   • Intrinsically safer design Review of Principles of Reliability Analysis   • Safety life-cycle concept   • Availability, reliability, and dependability   • Equipment failure modes Introduction to Systems Architectures   • Redundant vs. nonredundant systems   • Voting systems   • Computers and programmable logic controllers Day Two - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Design Concerns   • Alarm problem   • Maintenance (test intervals, online testing)   • Human factors (man/machine interface)   • Plant production environment   • Power supplies   • UPS   • Power surge/lighting protection   • Power quality to unit   • Grounding   • Static electricity Good Practices   • Single wire pulls   • Fuses   • Optical isolation   • Fire fusible links   • Spare parts Workshop: Preliminary Specification of an Interlock System for a Toxic Chemical Storage Area Preview of Coming Standards (IEC 1508) For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199.   This course in taught by professionals who have many years of LOPA experience and who developed our HazardReview LEADER™ software, which incorporates the LOPA methodology. ABS Consulting also co-authored Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment, published by CCPS.   Donald Lorenzo 1-865-671-5842 dlorenzo@absconsulting.com Raymond A. (Randy) Freeman 1-281-673-2743 randyfreeman@absconsulting.com You may also fax your questions to 1-865-671-5851 For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199.

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