Taking the Next Step - from HAZOP to LOPA and SIL

Course Information

Course: Taking the Next Step - from HAZOP to LOPA and SIL
Course Location and Dates

Toronto, CAN: Oct 23 - Oct 26

Toronto, CAN: May 22 - May 25

Toronto, CAN: Jun 19 - Jun 22

Toronto, CAN: Jul 24 - Jul 27

Toronto, CAN: Aug 21 - Aug 24

Toronto, CAN: Sep 18 - Sep 21


Course Description

What do you do now beyond your HAZOP or PHA study? If you find that the existing safeguards in a risk scenario are not enough to mitigate the risk to an acceptable level then what options do you have? Do you have to rely on subjective brainstorming sessions to determine additional safeguards? How confident are you of the integrity of your existing safeguards in your process? This course introduces the semi-quantitative risk analysis methodology called layer of protection analysis or LOPA that will help you to further analyze the existing safeguards from your HAZOP, in the form of layers of protection against an identified hazard in an objective and systematic way. When safety alarms, safety procedures, and physical safety devices are insufficient protection, safety instrumented systems are implemented as an additional layer of protection. The integrity of safety instrumented functions is further analyzed by SIL analysis for which LOPA is one of the intermediate steps. This course covers HAZOP, LOPA and SIL methodologies per international industry standards.

How You Will Benefit

This four-day course will empower you, and enable your organization through you, to identify, analyze, mitigate and monitor risks and hazards across the company, and systematically assess and manage the integrity of the protection layers. You will use Dyadem's state of the art risk management systems for hands-on exercises under the guidance of experienced professional instructors. You will learn how to conduct the HAZOP and LOPA facilitation and perform SIL analysis. 

Prerequisite

It is mandatory that you have a technical background and more than two years of experience in the process, oil, gas, chemicals, power, mining, pharmaceutical or other process industries.

Target Audience

This advanced course provides practical training for the novice with a technical background in process engineering and refresher training for the seasoned professionals, including but not limited to:

 

  • PHA Team members
  • PHA Facilitators and Scribes
  • Risk professionals
  • HSE professionals
  • Managers
  • Engineers
  • Supervisors
  • Maintenance
  • Project Managers
  • Consultants

Course Content

Day 1 - PHA Methodology and Workshop
Concepts of risk and safety, industrial incidents and lessons learned, regulations and standards, HAZOP methodology, terminology and procedures, introduction to management of change, human factors in industrial safety and HAZOP workshop using Stature.

Day 2 - LOPA and Target SIL Assignment
Introduction to target SIL assignment and LOPA, ALARP, tolerable risks, risk assessment and SIL determination methodologies, concepts of layers of protection, terminology, introduction to LOPA and FTA and hands-on exercises.

Day 3 - Introduction to LOPA
Understanding LOPA, how does LOPA work, procedure, consequence and severity estimation, developing scenarios, initiating events and frequence estimation, IPLs, risk based decisions and workshop using Stature.

Day 4 - Introduction to SIL Analysis
What is functional safety, regulations and standards, safety life cycle, implementing SIS from process conception to decommissioning, SIL verification methods and hands-on exercises.