Course description
This interactive course provides a comprehensive understanding of safety in the nuclear industry from engineering, management, operational, regulatory and theoretical perspectives. It makes extensive use of real-life nuclear and high hazard industry case studies and links the various stages in safety analysis with the requirements of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
This course is available as either an individual or group training. To get rates and book for your team, please contact the provider.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
- Early-career professionals in the nuclear industry
- More experienced practitioners looking for a refresher
- Engineers and scientists in other disciplines wishing to enter the nuclear industry
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The course will help you to understand:
- the basic science and engineering principles underlying the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear reactors
- the hazards of the nuclear industry and how the risks can be controlled
- the key factors influencing the basis for nuclear safety
- the key nuclear safety requirements at each stage in the life cycle of a nuclear plant from conceptual design through to operation, maintenance and modification
- the importance of safety culture and the consequences of poor nuclear safety
- the ways in which your work depends on the knowledge and expertise of others (ie interdependency and the need for overall organisational nuclear safety management competence) and how to acquire further knowledge and understanding of nuclear safety management
- the need to understand the safety case and how it should be the basis of decisions
- the importance of authority and accountability
- the metrics needed to demonstrate compliance
- the regulatory environment in which you operate.
Training Course Content
Course outline
- The importance of safety management
- Model for process safety management
- Safety culture
- Regulatory framework
- Basic reactor and fuel cycle technology.
- Nuclear hazards
- Nuclear safety case purpose, content and role
- Hazard identification
- Risk assessment and cost benefit analysis
- Design basis accidents and operating rules
- Severe accident analysis and emergency response
- Non-nuclear hazards and basic science
- Safety assessment principles
- Engineering safely including inherent and design safety
- Human factors
- Management systems
- Operations
- Management of change.
- Performance measures and learning from accidents
- Maintenance and asset integrity
- Course review
- Multi-stage case study
- Assessment
Expenses
Please visit the IChemE website for up-to-date course prices.
Discounts are available to companies booking more than one place. Bookings must be made at the same time to receive the discount.
- 2 places – 10% discount
- 3 places –15% discount
- 4 or more places – 20% discount
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