Facilitator Profile
The facilitator has over 36 years experience in the petrochemical industry with offshore and onshore plants experience. He retired from Shell UK Exploration and Production in 2001 where he was Head of Automation and Control. He chaired the UKOOA working group that produced the UKOOA Guidelines for Instrument-based Protective Systems, as an offshore sector interpretation of IEC 61508. He is a Chartered Engineer with a BSc. and MPhil in Control Engineering, and is a Member of the IEE and a TUV FS Expert. He currently chairs the Institute of Measurement and Control Safety Panel.
Partial clients list include:
ExxonMobil
ConocoPhillips
BP
British Gas
Chevron Texaco
SaudiChevronPhillips
Total
Texaco North Sea
Huntsman Petrochemicals
GlaxoSmithKline
Millenium Chemicals
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation
Aker Kvaerner
Occidental
Real Time Engineering
Acordis Acrylic Fibres
Genesis
KBR
Technip
Centrica
Key Benefits of attending the workshop
Learning how to identify process and operational hazards and the principles of
hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies
Understanding what represents risk and how to assess safety, asset and
environmental risks
The requirements of Safety Management Systems and avoiding improvement
notices and enforced shutdown by the Regulator
The concepts and differences between qualitative and quantitative risk
assessment (QRA) methods and when and how to apply them
Setting tolerable risk targets for safety, your asst and the environment and
methods to achieve these targets
How to set up, use and apply the most popular risk assessment methods such
as risk graphs, risk matrices and layers of protection analysis (LOPA)
The principles of fault tree analysis (FTA) and how to model protective systems
using this technique
The concept of reducing risks to as low as reasonably possible (ALARP)
The use of cost benefit analysis to demonstrate that sufficient risk reduction has
been applied
The principles and concepts of the internationally agreed standards IEC 61508
and IEC 61511 for safety instrumented systems
Learning how to design safety instrumented systems for protecting against
process related hazards.
Performing calculations such as probability of failure on demand (PFD), safe
failure fractions and hardware fault tolerance
How to identify and calculate the impact of common cause failures (Beta factor)
on the reliability of protective systems
The importance of testing and maintaining protective systems and how to
calculate the most optimal test and maintenance strategies
Introduction to the latest software tools for risk assessment and designing
safety instrumented systems and integrating them with other protective
technologies
Who Should Attend
Senior Process Managers and experienced Process Engineers | Instrument Engineers and Safety Engineers | Operating and Maintenance personnel who are responsible for, or involved in any of the lifecycle phases for safeguarding systems from hazard and risk assessment, shut down system/fire and gas systems design through to testing and maintenance.
