COURSE CONTENT (Total Duration: 18 hrs)

 Review of Common Causes for Chemical Process Accidents; Various Modes of “Loss of
Containment” of Hazardous Chemicals
 Overview of Hazard Evaluation Techniques: Checklists/Relative Ranking/HAZOP/Failure
Modes and Effect Analysis/Cause Consequence Analysis
 Using Hazard Evaluation Techniques Optimally for Loss Reduction
 Carrying out Safety Audits
 Concepts of Inherent Chemical Process Safety
 Chemical Plant Design Strategies for Safe Operation
 Techniques for Prevention of Chemical Process Accidents; Techniques for Detection of Leaks
of Hazardous Substances
 Techniques for Mitigation of Consequences of Chemical Process Accidents
 Understanding Human Errors; Methodologies for Reduction of Human Errors
 Managing Changes in Process Design and Operation
 Emergency Planning: Identification of Credible Incidents for Emergency Planning; Overall
Emergency Plan, Required Physical Facilities and Systems; Response Equipment and
Supplies; Evaluating Process Risks for Emergency Planning
 Decontamination of Accident Site and Response Team
 Developing Process Safety Management Systems

GENEARAL LIST OF TOPICS FOR COURSES/LECTURES

on

PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT

1. Safety in Process Industry: History of Safety Movement; Need for Process Safety, Legal,
Humanitarian, Economic and Social Considerations.

2. Principal Aspects of Safety: Introduction to Basic Principles of Industrial Safety;

Definitions; Nature of Accidents, Modes of Prevention of Accidents

3. Case Histories of Major Chemical Accidents

4. The Cost of Accidents: Analysis and Estimation.

5. Safety Responsibility and the Organisation: Role of Management, Supervisors, Workers

6. Classification of Hazards

7. Identification of Hazards: Review of Various Methodologies: HAZOP, FMEA, WHAT-If

Analysis etc,

8. Probit Analysis: Industrial Hygiene, Estimation of Exposure to Hazards; Handling of

Hazardous Substances

9. Fires: Prediction of Radiation Hazards from Pool, Tank, Jet and Flash fires, and BLEVEs;
Mitigation of Radiation Hazards

10. Explosions: Prediction of Blast Effects and Missile Projection, Methods of Control

11. Accident Probability Assessment: Reliability Analysis, Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis;
Redundancy in Process Design for Safety

12. Source Modeling: Release of Liquids, Vapours, and Multiple phases, from Vessels and
Pipelines

13. Design of Reliefs and Flares

14. Static Electricity Hazards: Evaluation and Control

15. Dispersion Modeling: Light and Heavy Gas Dispersion, Determination of Isopleths

16. Quantitative Case Studies: Release Scenarios of Flammable, Explosive, and Toxic
Chemicals; Risks Estimation for such Process Accidents

17. Study of Individual and Societal Risk Estimation: Construction of Risk vs Fatality Curves
and Risk Contours,

18. Newer Developments in Hazard Identification Techniques, Study of Domino Effects in

Accidents

19. Human Error: Its Management& Human Reliability Assessment, Ergonomics

20. Engineering Design for Process Safety

21. Technical Management of Process Safety: Process Safety Review Procedures for Capital
Projects, Process Risk Management, Management of Change

22. Methodology of Investigation of Process Upsets, Failures, and Accidents.

23. Safety Audits and Corrective Actions

24. Technologies for Mitigation of (Large-Scale) Post-Release Effects of Flammable,

Explosive and Toxic Substances

25. Emergency Planning/Disaster Management

26. Safety Training and Performance Evaluation

27. Environmental Hazards from Processes and their Technical Management

28. Environmental Impact Assessment for Capital Projects