Risk Analysis Screening Tool (RAST) Tutorial
Registration: This tutorial is a ticketed event for 2018 Spring and 14th GCPS. You can register for the RAST tutorial by selecting it during the 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting and 14th GCPS online registration process or call customer service at 1800.242.4363
Price: $100
Instructors: Ken First and Bruce Vaughen
Book: Software and Manuals will be provided
Note to participants: Laptop Required. Participants Must bring a laptop computer to participate in this tutorial session
The Risk Analysis Screening Tool (RAST) is a free, downloadable Excel workbook that is used to help identify hazard scenarios and evaluate process risk within a single program. The user inputs information about the chemical, equipment or unit operation parameters, process conditions and facility layout. The program will suggest potentially hazardous scenarios and estimate the worst case consequences based on the user input. Users are then able to select scenarios for further analysis via Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) within the tool. This tool is excellent for helping engineers in managing changes to a process or evaluating and potentially reducing the hazards of a process in the design stage. Attendees will learn about what the tool can do and begin to evaluate their processes.
Agenda:
This tutorial will cover the capabilities of the program and how to use it, including the following topics:
- Getting started
- Data Input
- Equipment Item input
- Process condition input
- Chemical data input
- Reaction data input
- Layout input
- Report Output
- Hazard summary
- Consequence analysis
- Scenario development
- Suggested scenario list
- User defined scenarios
- Layer of Protection Analysis
- LOPA workbook
- Protective layer reports
- Implementing the tool
- Accessing information
- Managing internal data
- Users group
- Online help