The 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting & 20th Global Congress on Process Safety short courses will be held on Sunday, March 24, 2024, from 9 AM - 5 PM Central Time.
You can register for any of these short courses by selecting the course title during the 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting and 20th GCPS Online Registration process or call customer service at 1.800.242.4363 to add the courses to your registration.
If you need a certificate of development hours for the short course you attended, Please contact customer service at Email certificates@aiche.org after the conference to request your CEU/PDH certificate. after you completed the short course.
S1: Driving Your Company’s Process Safety Transformation: Essential Skills for Process Safety Professionals
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Port
Price: $500
Instructor: Scott Berger & Kenan Stevick
Book: No Book
Introduction
If you are like most senior process safety professionals, you reached your position through operational experience, technical expertise, and a deep personal commitment to process safety. And like most of your peers, you now look at your company’s Tier 1 – Tier 4 metrics and are less than satisfied, frustrated with the struggle to get the financial, capital, personnel resources, and, most importantly, active leadership support needed to make the needed improvements to drive performance.
CCPS’s recent book, Process Safety Leadership from the Boardroom to the Frontline, details the importance of active and direct leadership at all levels, especially at the senior executive and senior and mid-level in operations, in achieving process safety excellence. But how can you as a senior process safety professional convince senior leaders to fulfill these roles? How do you set them up for success? What is your role in this transformation? And how can you succeed in this new structure?
In this one-day workshop, we will help you develop a strategy to drive the needed change in your organization’s leaders as you transform from being the process safety expert to the process safety advocate.
Workshop Agenda and Structure
To get the most out of the workshop, we will provide registrants with a pre-workshop checklist of information they should collect and bring with them to get the most out of the day. After introducing each topic, we will facilitate individual work, group discussion, and role-playing. Topics will include:
- Introductions
- Challenges and stakeholder analysis
- Making the Business Case for Process Safety
- Risk, risk perception, and risk communication
- Developing vision, goals, objectives, plans, budgets, and resources
- Identifying weaknesses and key improvement opportunities
- Building allies and strengthening communications
- Having difficult conversations
- Other topics as identified by participants
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed skills and a draft strategy to drive process safety improvement in their companies.
S2: Introduction to ChatGPT with Application to PSM
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Quarterdeck C
Price: $500
Instructor: Rainer Hoff
Book: No Book
Introduction to ChatGPT with Application to PSM
Since the public release of ChatGPT in 2022, there has been tremendous interest in using this technology by the process safety community. While artificial intelligence in general, and ChatGPT in particular, offer substantial time savings, knowing where to apply it and how to use it effectively, while minimizing risk, can be bewildering.
This course is designed for learners with no experience with ChatGPT, and no programming experience is required. The focus is on "what can be done using the public ChatGPT, without training the AI with your company's proprietary or confidential data". All the examples are PSM-oriented: MOC, incidents, PHA, etc.
Part 1: Understanding ChatGPT
- Introduction to ChatGPT
- How ChatGPT Works
- Capabilities of ChatGPT
- Limitations and Ethical Considerations
Part 2: Hands-on with ChatGPT using PSM Examples
- Getting Started with ChatGPT
- Practical Exercise: Interacting with ChatGPT
Part 3: Introduction to Advanced Data Analysis
- Data Analysis Fundamentals
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Advanced Data Analysis Techniques
Part 4: Applying Advanced Data Analysis using PSM Examples
- Case Studies: ChatGPT in Data Analysis
- Example Data Analysis Project
S3: Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) – Updated
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Quarterdeck A
Price: $500
Instructor: William G. Bridges (Bill); Revonda Tew (Process Improvement Institute (PII))
Book: No Book
Are proposed or existing combinations of safeguards enough to prevent an accident or mitigate the consequences? Do you perceive that doing a fully quantitative risk assessment (QRA) would be over-working the problem? Then Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is the new tool you need to learn. LOPA combines both qualitative and quantitative elements of hazard evaluation and risk assessment to analyze and judge the adequacy of existing or proposed safeguards against process deviations and accident scenarios. A key to the success of LOPA is its rules for judging if protection layers are truly independent. Because of these rules, LOPA helps analysts make consistent judgments of if the risk of scenarios are “as low as reasonably practical (ALARP)”. This “How To” course is taught by one of the principal authors of the AIChE/CCPS book, Layer of Protection Analysis (2001). The course will also bring you up- to-date on changes from the newly released Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers, CCPS/AIChE (Mr. Bridges, the instructor, was the primary author of this textbook). Workshops are used as the primary mode of teaching each aspect of LOPA. You will perform several complete LOPA before leaving class.
What You Will Learn:
• When and how to use LOPA and How to systematically create risk scenarios
• How to establish risk acceptance (risk tolerance) criteria for use within your company
(this is also called development of ALARP criteria)
• How to calculate “as-is” risk for a cause-consequence pair:
- Estimate the frequency of the initiating event and estimate consequence
• What is meant by “independence” and “uniqueness” with respect to IPLs
• How to use LOPA to determine the Safety Integrity Level (SIL) necessary for an instrument IPL (to comply with the requirements of IEC 61508/61511)
• How other companies worldwide use LOPA to:
- Decide which PHA/HAZOP recommendations to reject and which to accept
- Focus limited resources within mechanical integrity departments and operations on what is critical to manage risk to ALARP
- Avoid wasting resources on quantifying risk using QRA methods
- Perform specialized risk modeling for facility siting questions
Take Home:
• Comprehensive course notebook containing: Examples of risk acceptance and judgment protocols & Industry examples and solutions to all LOPA workshops
• Certificate of Completion and 0.7 CEUs & 0.7 COCs
Typical Course Candidates
This course is designed for experienced PHA/HAZOP leaders. Other individuals with a strong technical background (such as engineers and scientists) may attend:
• Managers of Operations, Safety; Project Managers; Engineers – Process, Safety, and
Mechanical; PSM Coordinators and Managers
Course Outline
1-Day (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Introduction to LOPA
• Learning objectives and goals of using the LOPA technique
• What is LOPA? How is LOPA applied? Definitions? When is LOPA used?
Developing LOPA Scenarios
• Selecting candidate scenarios from brainstorming hazard evaluations
• Scenarios from design questions and from incidents
Estimating the Consequence of the Scenario
• Using a look-up table of consequence; Developing a consequence look-up table for your company; Alternative methods for estimating consequences
• Workshop 1: Estimating the consequence of a scenario (part of a continuing example)
Estimating the Likelihood of the Selected Initiating Event
• Using a look-up table of initiating event categories and frequencies
• How to develop an initiating event look-up table for your company
• Addressing enabling conditions and time-dependent initiating events
• Workshop 1: Estimating the frequency of an initiating event of a scenario (part of a continuing example)
Estimating the Probability of Failure of Independent Protection Layers
• Definitions, rules, and exceptions for giving credit for an independent protection layer (IPL); Using a look-up table of IPL categories and probability of failure on demand (PFOD); How to develop an IPL look-up table
• Workshop 1: Deciding which safeguards are valid IPLs and estimating the PFOD
of the valid IPLs (part of a continuing example) Calculating the Risk
• Using a standardized LOPA worksheet; Rules for calculating risk for an individual scenario (LOPA); Rules for summing risk of related scenarios
• Workshop 1: Calculating the risk of a LOPA scenario (part of a continuing example)
Judging the Risk
• Examples of risk tolerance criteria from the industry
• Development and implementation of a company risk tolerance criteria
• Workshop 1: Judging the risk of a LOPA scenario (cont. example) Special Applications of LOPA
• Using LOPA for facility siting questions; Selecting the SIL for an interlock
S4: PHA/HAZOP of Procedures (Hazard evaluation of non-routine operating modes) – uncover the scenarios that lead to 70% of the major process safety accidents
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Quarterdeck B
Price: $500
Instructor: William G. Bridges (Bill); Revonda Tew (Process Improvement Institute (PII))
Book: No Book
Do the existing PHA/HAZOPs of your units cover all modes of operation? Have your procedures for startup, shutdown, and online maintenance been analyzed to find the accident scenarios that lurk only there? Industry data shows that 45% of major accidents occur during startup mode of operation and another 30% during shutdown and online maintenance modes of operation. But, most PHA/HAZOPs only focus on normal (typically continuous) modes of operation. This “How To” course is taught by the author of Chapter 9 on this topic in Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 3rd Edition (2008). Workshops are used as the primary mode of teaching each aspect of the short course. You will perform several PHAs of procedures before leaving class. US OSHA endorses this approach and requires such analysis.
What You Will Learn:
• When and how to use either What-If or HAZOP for analysis of procedures
• Pitfalls to avoid in analysis of procedures, especially how to optimize the time invested
• Options for documenting analysis of procedures
• Overview of human factors, including dependent human errors
Take Home:
• Comprehensive course notebook containing: Examples of risk review methods for procedure analysis and for documentation of same
• Certificate of Completion and 0.7 CEUs & 0.7 COCs
Typical Course Candidates
This course is designed for experienced PHA/HAZOP leaders. Other individuals with a strong technical background may attend to learn the critical factors that need to be considered or to understand the business case for these analyses:
• Managers of Operations, Safety
• Project Managers
• Engineers – Process, Safety, and Mechanical; PSM Coordinators and Managers
Course Outline
1-Day (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
• Overview of risk review methods
- Methods and their usefulness over the life cycle of a process
- Making risk judgments
- Human factors concepts and how to address human factors during hazard evaluations
• HAZOP technique and Best practice rules for HAZOP
- Review of Rules for IPLs
• HAZOP techniques (2 guidewords and 7 guidewords) for analyzing procedures and batch processes
- Workshop: Example HAZOP of a procedure (instructor-led)
- Workshop: HAZOP review by participants in breakout groups
• What-if/checklist technique as applied to the analysis of procedures
- Workshop: Example What-if (instructor-led)
- Workshop: What-If review by participants in breakout groups
• Checklist analysis as a supplement to brainstorming methods for procedure analysis
- Human Factors Checklists
• Recap of best practices
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations called in at 800.242.4363 or emailed to customerservice@aiche.org no later than ((3 weeks before meeting start date)), 11:59 pm ET will receive a full refund less $50 in processing charges. After ((3 weeks before the meeting start date)) no full registration refunds will be given. If you registered but are unable to attend, AIChE will accept a substitute with a $50 processing fee.