SAChE® Certificate Program - Facility Siting

Unit 1:

• Understand the driving forces behind "Facility Siting" evaluations on how to assess the risks associated to people in occupied buildings in areas with process safety hazards and risks.
• Identify how the BP Texas City explosion influenced regulations (i.e., the US OSHA's regulation), other governmental entities, and the industry's expectations for safe siting of occupied structures (i.e., API RP 752 and API RP 753)

Unit 2:

• Explain the different methods, both qualitative and quantitative, to address the siting and layout issues at facilities
• Identify hazardous scenarios that could affect occupied buildings, including the effects of toxic releases, fires, and explosions

Unit 3:

Understand how to analyze the risks associated with potentially vulnerable locations of control rooms or other occupied buildings and whether a building can provide a shelter-in-place location for toxic release scenarios

Unit 4:

• Understand how risk results are used in siting and layout studies of facilities, processes, and their equipment using the 1) the location of a facility, 2) the distances between process units, 3) the distances between equipment, and 4) the distances between the hazardous areas and the locations of people
• Explain the different methods, both qualitative and quantitative, to address the siting and layout issues at facilities, including their benefits and limitations used in both smaller Management of Change (MOC)-related projects or larger facility-wide projects