In this CDGA Health & Safety training course, the delegates will learn:

 How to Apply Advanced Risk Assessment Techniques?

• Mechanics of Dispersion, Fire, Explosion and Toxic Releases
• The Concept of Quantified Risk Assessment “QRA”
• Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Study Methodology
• HAZOP Team Leadership

Delegates attending this CDGA Health & Safety training course will:

 Understand the concepts of Risk Assessment and Risk Management

• Understand the estimation and evaluation of risks - Qualitative, Semi-Quantitative and Quantified Risks
• Techniques for Hazard Identification and Analysis - Check-Lists, Risk Profiling, HAZOP, FMEA and Task-Based Risk Assessment
• Cause-Consequences Analysis - The Role of Fault Trees and Event Trees in Accident Prevention
• Understand HAZOP studies their benefits and their short comings
• Understand the requirements of a Team Leader or Facilitator, scribe and team members during HAZOP studies
• Be able to facilitate a HAZOP study

• HSE Technical Personnel
• Project Engineers
• Maintenance Personnel
• Process Engineers involved in design and modification
• Instrumentation and Control Engineers

Participants will learn by taking part in exercises, syndicate and group workshops, as well as looking at case studies and real life situations.

Day 1

Introduction to Risk Assessment

 The Concepts of Hazards, Risk and Risk Assessment

• Methods for Risk Evaluation
• Integrating Risk Assessment within Risk Management
• Risk hierarchy and risk management
• Bow-Tie risk assessment technique and barrier analysis

 Day 2

Hazard and operability study : HAZOP

• What is a HAZOP?
• Six Step Approach.
• Objective of
• How and Why HAZOP is
• Purpose of HAZOP.
• HAZOP – Hazard &
• Documents needed for HAZOP
• HAZOP Study Procedure, with Sample Exercises
• Where and When to Use HAZOP and the Requirements for a Successful HAZOP Study
• Team Composition for HAZOP Studies
• Guide Words and Process variables used for HAZOP Studies

 Day 3

HAZOP Leadership Techniques

• HAZOP Team Leader / Facilitator Requirements
• HAZOP Scribe Requirements
• Facilitating HAZOP Studies - do’s and don’ts
• Information required to allow Successful HAZOP Studies
• Review of Commercial Software used for HAZOP and Management of Change ‘MOC’

Day 4

Consequence Analysis

• Theory Behind Fire, Explosion and Toxic Dispersion Modelling Utilized in Quantitative Risk Assessments
• Types of Fires and their Effects on People and Equipment
• Types of Explosions and their Effects on People and Equipment
• Review of Software available for Consequence Calculations

 Day 5

The Role of QRA

• Introduction to Quantified Risk Assessment “QRA”
• The Role of Event Tree Analysis in Scenario Development
• The Role of Fault Tree Analysis for Multi-causation Analysis
• Applications for ETA and FTA
• Failure Data for Use in QRA’s
• Societal Risk and Individual Risk
• Review of Software available for Quantitative Risk

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing a minimum of 80% of the total course duration