Short Courses at the 7th Global Congress on Process Safety

 

The Global Congress on Process Safety will once again be featuring short courses on the day before the start of the technical sessions, Sunday, March 13, 2011.  All short courses will take place from 8am to 5pm (except for the Boot Camp course) in the same venue as the GCPS, the Hyatt Regency Chicago.   The register for a short course, select the course when you register for the GCPS. 

The following courses will be offered:

This 1-day course provides you with the keys to maximizing the operations department’s contribution to the reliable operation of a facility. The course covers key aspects of Conduct of Operations (COO) such as operating procedures, communications, training, operator routines, configuration control, and investigation of abnormal events. Highlights include:

• Philosophy of Reliable Operations
• Building Blocks of Reliable Operations
• Management of Change
• Continuous Improvement
• Tailoring the Program Elements
• Implementing Change

Instructor: Lee N. Vanden Heuvel or Donald Lorenzo, ABS Consulting, biography on-line: http://www.absconsulting.com/instructor-biographies/index.cfm 

Take Home: Conduct of Operations, A CCPS Concept Book

Cost: $600

 

Preventing Human Errors

Human error is widely acknowledged as the major cause of quality, production, and safety risks in many industries. This course explains the underlying reasons why humans make mistakes and how you can prevent these mistakes. Although it is unlikely that human error will ever be completely prevented, there is growing recognition that many human performance problems stem from a failure within organizations to develop an effective policy for managing human reliability.

The course will provide hands-on experience of practical error reduction techniques, using real-life case studies. You will also gain an understanding of the underlying causes of human error and how to reduce its occurrence by changing the culture of the organization and changing the design of the processes.  Workshops are used throughout the course to illustrate concepts and to demonstrate human error analysis applications.

Typical Course Candidates

• Managers – Operations, Safety, and Executive; and Production Supervisors
• Training Managers
• Engineers – Process, Safety, and Mechanical
• PSM Coordinators and Managers
• PHA (hazard review) Leaders and Incident Investigators

What You Will Learn:

• Why human error is a factor in all accidents
• Why humans make mistakes and proven error prevention techniques
• How to analyze & identify human errors and the conditions and situations that cause them
• How weak policies and procedures in areas of human resources, training, management, communication, and workplace design cause human errors
• How to improve and optimize procedures, workplace design, process design, and more to improve human performance

Instructor: William G. Bridges (Bill)

Bill is President of Process Improvement Institute, Inc. (PII). He is considered one of the leading authorities on process safety engineering, risk management, and human error prevention. He has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and he has over 30 years of chemical industry experience in process engineering, process/product development, management, safety evaluation, and operations.  His last position in the chemical industry was as a chemical plant manager.  Bill has helped many companies in the petroleum, petrochemical, plastic and chemical process industries develop, implement and assess PSM and risk management programs.  Bill has taught PSM related courses, including process hazard analysis/HAZOP leadership, incident investigation/RCA, and management of change (MOC) since 1987.

Among other contributions, Bill is one of the originators of LOPA and was a primary author of the CCPS guideline on LOPA (2001).  He also is the primary author of the new textbook, “Guidelines for Independent Protection Layers and Initiating Events”, CCPS, 2011.  As part of this effort, he developed many of the definitions and rules for human-response protection layers and initiating events.  He has been teaching human factors and human reliability analysis for more than 10 years.  He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of human error prevention (for instance, he led the human reliability analysis for the rebuild of the polyethylene plants at Phillips, Pasadena, Texas, in 1991-1992 as part of the settlement agreement with the US government).Take Home: A Comprehensive course notebook, and the CCPS book Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety

Cost: $600

 

A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification

Please see this course information flyer for more details about this course.

Take Home: The CCPS book A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification

Cost: $600

 

Dust Combustibility Hazards - From Basics to Advanced

This is a workshop course, where the attendees will utilize methods for quantifying hazards and will estimate the hazardous properties of combustible dusts.  Thus, an objective of this course is to provide attendees with the ability to screen the materials that they handle, to aid in determining the precautions that should be taken in storing and processing these materials.  This will include sensitivity to various types of ignition hazards – such as electrical arcs and electrostatic discharges – and the severity of combustion incidents – such as explosions and flash-fires.

Who Should Attend: Since this is an advanced course, attendees should be familiar with the basic properties of combustible dusts, including Maximum Explosion Pressure, Deflagration Index [Kst], and Minimum Ignition Energy, Minimum Ignition Temperature, and Minimum Explosible Concentration, and Charge-Decay Times.  The quantification of each of these properties will be discussed, together with sources of data in the open literature, estimation methods, and methods for assessing the accuracy and meaning of the results of explosibility tests.

What Attendees Will Gain: The content of the course is addressed to members of technical staff – engineers, chemists, research and development personnel, and others – who need to understand the hazardous properties and hazardous consequences of dust combustion.  Attendees can expect to leave this course with knowledge that will assist them in participating in Process Hazard Analyses, Prestartup Safety Reviews, and Incident Investigations.  Also, they will be better-equipped to respond to questions concerning the equipment and environment in which combustible dusts are handled.

Take Home: CCPS book Guidelines for Safe Handling of Powders and Bulk Solids

Cost: $600

 

Introduction to the Process Safety Boot Camp

This two-hour introduction to CCPS’ Process Safety Boot Camp will provide an overview of the course material, testimonials from clients, and presentation of two of the course modules with mini-workshops.  Two Boot Camp Instructors will present the introduction and be on hand to answer questions about course content and how this course can be used to improve process safety knowledge within your organization.

The Process Safety Boot Camp is an intensive four-day course covering the concepts of process safety including risk based process safety management, regulatory issues and process safety technical topics. The course includes presentations by process safety experts, case studies and workshops with ample time allowed for presentation of your company’s process safety policies and procedures, and dialogue with the instructors on issues of interest to your organization.  The course was developed by recognized process safety experts and designed to provide the basics of process safety for those in your company new to the subject.  See the full Process Safety Boot Camp brochure for a list of topics to be covered by the course.

Who Should Attend: Process Safety Managers or anyone else interested in a process safety training program for the young engineers in their company.

What Attendees Will Gain: An understanding of what the CCPS Process Safety Boot Camp covers and the knowledge of whether or not it would be useful within your organization.

Cost: $15 (to cover coffee and beverages served)

NOTE: This course will take place from 3 to 5PM.

Contact John F. Murphy, PE (hamjfm@embarqmail.com) or Louisa A. Nara, CCEP (louna@aiche.org) for further information or go to http://www.aiche.org/ccps/Education/BootCamp.aspx.