Course description
This module can be undertaken as an individual module or altogether as a package on the EI’s learning management system, with recorded presentations and exercises taught by a leading expert in process safety and a former deputy director of the UK Health & Safety Executive.
Learning Objectives:
- Why hazard identification is the starting point for managing risks
- How hazard identification is linked to risk assessment
- Techniques to identify, quantify and communicate about hazards
- Why accident scenario mapping / worst case outcome is important
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Training Course Content
Key Points to cover:
Purpose: To identify what types of harm are presented in the facility or associated with work activities so that appropriate control measures can be developed, implemented and maintained at all times the hazards are present.
Learning Points:
- What is a hazard and how it differs from risk as a concept?
- Hazards are used, harnessed, or created as part of business
- The context of the potential for harm
- Hazard Identification Methodologies:
- Structured and systematic
- By location or activity of occurrence
- Identifying nature/quantity/ physical and chemical properties
- Hazard register
- When Hazard Identification normally takes place:
- Initial process design
- During change programmes / activities
- Understand the scale and nature of hazards (forms of potential harm) – what can go wrong?
- Determine the location of the main hazards
- Determine safe storage arrangements for hazardous substances (Seveso requirements). Avoid mixing and incompatible storage (Oxidisers and Flammables)
- Identify, record and communicate harmful properties / conditions
- Safety data sheets for substances
- Major hazard scenario schematics for products / processes and conditions
- PIDs with process information – temp/pressure/voltage/ rotation speed etc.
- Supports determination of emergency measures
- Communication to alert staff, contractors, visitors, neighbours of the nature and extent of danger so they can put risks into context
- Controlling the introduction of new hazards
- Compliance with licences and permits
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