This online course will introduce you to the CCPS Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) Management approach, described in the CCPS book Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety, 2007. It covers the four pillars and twenty elements that define the structure for the RBPS approach. The course will help you design, implement, and maintain a risk-based process safety management system that will fit your company’s needs and resources.
You will learn the definition and importance of RBPS and learn the four pillars of RBPS. Key principles and essential features for each of the twenty elements that make up the pillars will be discussed.
The four pillars include:
1. Commit to process safety
2. Understand hazards and risk
3. Manage risk
4. Learn from experience
Subjects discussed include:
- Process Safety Culture
- Compliance with Standards
- Process Safety Competency
- Workforce Involvement
- Stakeholder Outreach
- Process Knowledge Management
- Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
- Operating Procedures
- Safe Work Practices
- Asset Integrity and Reliability
- Contractor Management
- Training and Performance Assurance
- Management of Change
- Operational Readiness
- Conduct of Operations
- Emergency Management
- Incident Investigation
- Measurement and Metrics
- Auditing
- Management Review and Continuous Improvement
- Implementation and the Future
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Learning Outcomes:
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Value the importance of Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) and how it fits into business success
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List the four pillars and 20 elements of RBPS and describe their interaction.
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Describe a RBPS management system that supports the culture, needs, and resources of your company.
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Apply the 20 elements of RBPS design to your workplace by utilizing the accepted methods and resources.
Who Should Attend:
Those involved in designing, implementing and maintaining a successful process safety management system in your company including:
- Process safety specialists and process safety managers
- Operations and plant managers
- Engineers and supervisors
Lecture One: Introduction
- Process Safety Management decline
- Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS)
- Overall Benefits of RBPS
- Additional Resources
Lecture Two: Overview of Risk Based Process Safety
- Strategic approaches
- Risk Based PSM approach
- Understanding Risk
- RBPS Pillars
- Objective of RBPS
- RBPS Design Criteria
Lecture Three: Process Safety Culture
- What is Safety Culture?
- Incident - what happened?
- Weak vs. Strong
- "Buy-in"
- Improving safety culture
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Four: Compliance With Standards
- Standards in process industries
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Examples of standards
- Risk in the context of this element
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Five: Process Safety Competency
- What is Process Safety Competency?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Six: Workforce Involvement
- Define Workforce Involvement
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Implementation
- Suggestions for involving workforce
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Seven: Stakeholder Outreach
- What is Stakeholder Involvement?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Eight: Process Knowledge Management
- What is Process Knowledge Management?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Nine: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
- What is Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- How is it done?
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Ten: Operating Procedures
- What is the Operating Procedures element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Eleven: Safe Work Practices
- What is the Safe Work Practices element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Twelve: Asset Integrity and Reliability
- What is the Asset Integrity and Reliability element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Thirteen: Contractor Management
- What is the Contractor Management element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Fourteen: Training and Performance Assurance
- What is the Training and Performance Assurance element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Fifteen: Management of Change
- What happened?
- What is the Management of Change element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Sixteen: Operational Readiness
- Define "Operational Readiness"
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Seventeen: Conduct of Operations
- What is Conduct of Operations?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Eighteen: Emergency Management
- What is Emergency Management?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- How is it done?
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Nineteen: Incident Investigation
- What is the Incident Investigation element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Twenty: Measurement and Metrics
- What is the Measurement and Metrics element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Twenty-one: Auditing
- What is the Auditing element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Twenty-two: Management Review and Continuous Improvement
- What is the Management Review and Continuous Improvement element?
- Where/when/who
- Anticipated work products
- Key principles and essential features
Lecture Twenty-three: Implementation and the Future
- Reasons to implement an RBPS management system
- First steps toward implementation
- Start with elements that provide the greatest risk
- Implementation examples
- Other applications
- The future of RBPS
Final Exam: 25 Questions
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