Process Safety Management

The aim of the course is to give an introduction to Process Safey and Risk with a focus on
the management systems. The course gived fundamentals to understand why and when
perform technical (process safety studies) and management activities.

• Introduction to Process Safety

• Definitions
• International Standards and Regulations (e.g. OSHA PSM, DNV, OGP, NORSOK, API, EU
Directives, etc.)
• Process Safety Management systems structure
• Process Safety Management over the asset lifecycle
• Introduction to Process Risk Management
• Risk metrics and acceptance criteria for qualitative and quantitative analysis
• International References
• Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• Overview of hazard identification an risk assessment analyses (HAZOP, HAZID, FMECA,
What If, etc.)
• Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• PHA techniques and asset lifecycle
• Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment
• Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)
• Contribution to the design
• Safety and Environment Critical Elements
• Functional Safety
• International Standard IEC 61508/61511
• Emergency preparedness
• Pre – start safety
• Focus on: Process Safety KPIs
• Process and Equipment Integrity
• Process Safety Management Enablers
• Incident investigation
• Focus on: incident investigation process
• Compliance Audit
• The role of Human Factors in major accidents prevention.