(formerly Hazard Identification and Assessment: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods) Course Description Learn the Most Commonly Used Risk Assessment Techniques You will learn the most commonly used techniques for identifying chemical-process industry hazards, quantifying their likelihood, and assessing the reliability, availability, and dependability of process systems. This course will help ensure your company's compliance with OSHA's regulation for Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals and other industry risk management initiatives. Who Should Attend This course is especially useful for engineers and scientists who need to evaluate the benefits (risk-reduction potential) of recommendations for process change. You can expect to: Review the key elements of qualitative and quantitative risk-analysis methods Understand how to select appropriate hazard evaluation techniques to use in a variety of instances Learn simplified methods for calculating system reliability, availability, and expected number of failures Participate in at least seven hands-on workshops in which you gain valuable practice and experience in applying a particular analytical technique to a process system Accreditation: 3.5 CEUs, 3.5 COCs, 5.85 CMs, ABIH approval #10-244 For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199. Course Highlights Introduction Process safety management What-if/checklist technique Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) technique Human factors concepts/HAZOP of procedures Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) Fault tree analysis Event tree analysis Overview of layer of protection analysis (LOPA) Reliability calculations and importance measures Dependent failure analysis Failure data selection Analysis of standby safety systems Risk assessment   Course Outline Day One - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Introduction Process safety management What-if/checklist technique Workshop HAZOP technique Workshop Day Two - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Human factors concepts/HAZOP of procedures Workshop Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) Workshop Day Three - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fault tree analysis Workshops Reliability calculations and importance measures Workshops Failure data selection Workshop Day Four - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Common cause failure analysis Incorporating test and maintenance factors into reliability calculations Workshops Day Five - 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Event tree analysis Workshops LOPA Conclusion   For more information on this course, contact Customer Service at 1-800-769-1199.   This course is taught by consultants who have many years of experience in hazard identification and risk assessment   John Farquharson 1-865-671-5807 jfarquharson@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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