Offshore Reliability, Hazop, Risk and Safety

Introduction

The Safety, Risk, and Reliability Offshore course enables you to understand and apply the basic concepts of risk and reliability analysis in the offshore environment. This training course examines learning from failures and techniques for decision analysis with emphasis on the use of advanced risk, reliability, and operational research techniques and applying them to cases of major failures and disasters.

The idea of the training course is to look at Learning from Failures. This will be through examining known and topical cases, as well as cases related to the particular own experience of the delegates. This will be based on the analysis of reported disasters with the aim of exploring techniques that can help us to understand the root causes of why those incidents occurred and how such crises unfold over time and hence how can we learn generic lessons from those disasters.   

This training course will feature:

• Understanding of safety, risk, and continuity of operations
• Development of people management skills
• Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability
• How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing
• Applying decision analysis approaches

Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Learn Best Practice and learn how to avoid Bad Practice through assessment of case studies of disasters in various industries
• Gain sufficient skills to work in the industry as reliability, maintenance, safety, and quality professionals
• Explain the benefits of acquiring best practices from High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)
• Determine methods for generating and implementing effective performance metrics
• Analyze critically the methodologies employed in the organization & implement improvements
• Be able to explain the concept of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety) and its application in the offshore energy industry
• Have a basic understanding of reliability analysis techniques and the mathematical basis of risk and reliability
• Be able to apply various tools (e.g. fault tree and event tree analysis, FMEA/FMECA, HAZOP, reliability block diagram) in risk and reliability assessment of offshore energy systems
• Appreciate the role of human error and equipment failure in accident causation
• Understand how the above relates to the preparation of offshore safety cases.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is highly recommended for all Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and Technical Support staff. Also, this course is applicable to any person actively involved or contemplating safety, performance measurement, improvement, and/or quality and reliability related activities.

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Operations & Process Professionals
• Reliability & Safety Professionals
• Other professionals involved in process improvement

Course Outline

Day 1: Safety Systems and Risk Management

• Safety first

• Learning from failures

• Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents

• Taxonomy of theories

• Nature of High-Reliability Organizations (HRO)

• Risk assessment, Choice of case studies, and types of recommendations

Continuity of Operations – Plant Systems Reliability

• Coping with risks, and defining reliability and resilience

• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques

• Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• Risk Priority Number (RPN) and Iso Critical Curves

• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Blok Diagram (RBD), and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

• Practical examples and case studies

Day 2: A-Z of Disastrous Case Studies from Natural, Aviation, Marine, and Space Industries

• Hurricane Katrina Disaster (Natural Disasters and Evacuations)

• NASA’s Challenger Disaster (Space Industry)

• NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (Space Industry)

• Titanic – The Unsinkable ship that sank (Ships Industry)

• Exxon Valdez – Oil Spill Disaster

• Small Groups presentations

Case Studies from High-Reliability Organizations (HROs): Process Industry and Oil and Gas

• Cases and generic lesson learned from Process industry: Bhopal Disaster (Petrochemical Industry in India)

• Case and generic lesson learned from the Oil and Gas industry:  Piper Alpha Disaster (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)

• BP Deep Water Horizon (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)

• BP Texas City Incident (Chemical and Process Industry)

• Small Groups Presentations

• Generic Lessons

Day 3: Case Studies from High-Reliability Organizations (HROs): Nuclear Power Generation Industry

• Case and generic lesson learned from the Nuclear industry: Chernobyl Disaster (Nuclear Industry)

• Fukushima Disaster (Nuclear Industry)

• Group work and group presentations

• Organizational Resilience and Learning from Failures and Success

• Action Plans

Why there is a need for Advanced Risk, Reliability, and Safety Management Techniques?

• What is Risk, and Hazard?

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Risk Management

•  Proactive vs Reactive Attitudes towards Risk

• Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis

• What is Reliability Engineering

• Choice of Models and Existing Assumptions

Day 4: The Concept of Generic Lessons & Benchmarking

• Attributes of the generic lessons

• Best practice of learning from failures from different industries

• Best practice can be learned from worst practice

• The ten generic lessons and the three underpinning factors

• What is benchmarking? History of benchmarking

• Different methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other

A Framework of Learning and Unlearning Excellence

• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA)

• Systems modeling using Reliability Block Diagrams

• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) / Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

• Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)

• A framework for analyzing near-misses and failures

• High severity with low frequency versus high severity with high frequency

Day 5: Other Frameworks / Models of Learning from Incidents

• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM)

• Risk control and decision support systems

• Failure consequences

• Introduction to stochastic modeling

• Attributes of Organizational Crises

• Inspection and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

Towards Achieving Organizational Excellence

• Design and Reliability of Control Systems

• Design and Reliability of Protective Systems

• Quantitative reliability analysis

• A framework for Benchmarking of Resilience

• Towards an Operational Excellence Award

• Group Projects and Presentations