COURSE MODULE = I


TITLE: Process Risk And Loss Assessment

CONTENTS:

  • Technical and Economic Issues in Chemical Process Safety Management; Benefits of Hazard and Risk Analysis; Current Regulatory Trends
  • Overview of Hazard Identification Methodologies

  • Methods for Assessing Consequences of Fires, Explosions, and Atmospheric Release of Toxic Substance; Estimation of Consequence Probability

  • Estimation of Equipment and Process System Failures Probabilities: Quantitative Fault and Event Tree Analysis, Equipment Failure Data Sources

  • Risk Management: Concepts and Methods; Identification of Individual and Societal Risk Contours around Chemical Process Facilities; Criteria for Risk Acceptance

  • Using Risk Assessment for Emergency Planning / Incident Investigations

  • Case Studies in Risk Analysis

  • Demonstration of Software for Evaluating Hazard / Risk from Fires, Explosions, and Toxic Releases