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SAChE® - Hazards and Risk: Safeguards Other Than Relief Systems

SAChE – Safety and Chemical Engineering Education

Safeguards are at the heart of managing hazards and risk.  They prevent or mitigate loss events such as fires, explosions and toxic releases. 

Preventive safeguards such as alarm response, safety instrumented systems and overpressure protection keep loss events from happening when an initiating event causes a process to deviate from normal operation.  Mitigative safeguards such as secondary containment, fire mitigation systems, and emergency response can reduce the impact of loss events.

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Instructor(s) 

Robert W. Johnson

Mr. Johnson is a Fellow of AIChE and an industry leader in the development and dissemination of risk analysis methods and risk management strategies. Since 1978, Mr. Johnson has helped clients prioritize risk reduction options, develop corporate and plant technical safety programs, identify inherently safer processes, train PHA team leaders, and analyze fire, explosion, and toxic release hazards.

Mr. Johnson teaches AIChE continuing education courses on HAZOP Studies and on Advanced Concepts for Process Hazard Analysis, has prepared several eLearning courses on process safety topics...Read more

Wendy Smades

Pricing

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Unit 1 - The Need for Safeguards

  • Identify how inherently safer design relates to process facility safeguards
  • Identify where safeguards come into incident scenarios
  • Determine when safeguards are needed
  • Distinguish between preventative and mitigative safeguards

Unit 2 -  Preventive Safeguards

  • List four common types of preventative safeguards
  • Distinguish preventative safeguards that are implemented in the BPCS from other control functions
  • Identify human actions that are preventative safeguards
  • Identify the components of automatic safety systems

Unit 3 -  Mitigative Safeguards

  • Distinguish between common types of mitigative safeguards
  • Identify some key considerations for each type of mitigative safeguard

Unit 4 - Designing and Maintaining Effective Safeguards

  • Distinguish between process alarms and safety alarms
  • Identify safeguards as independent protection layers
  • Calculate the effect of functional testing on the reliability of a safeguard system
  • Analyze safeguards in the context of process hazard analyses

Lead Video 

https://youtu.be/PRfC1qzxmOE
Florida
New Jersey
New York
RCEP
English
ELA973
2.5 hours
Intermediate

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