Management of Safety in Chemical Plants

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Draw on safety legislation and occupational safety literature to design a safe working practice (Depth)

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Employ standard hazard identification tools in the chemical industry (Depth) ;
• Classify the types of risks present in chemical plants and present strategies for the mitigation of such risks (Depth);

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the outcomes of case studies of industrial accidents (Breadth)

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• To critically evaluate and select control of hazard and control evaluation techniques applicable to different industrial processes. (Depth);
• To be able to perform a detailed design of HSE systems based on process analysis and dynamics. (Depth)

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Identify and describe the essential aspects of industrial safety management

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT: Introduction to ISM – Background and importance of ISM – Elements of Industrial Safety - Regulatory frame work: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Process Safety Management (PSM) – PSM elements and its benefits – Safety Culture and Leadership – Safety Audit – Safety Training and Education – Safety Awards – Safety in design – Chemical plant with inherent safe design features – Safety inspection – Safety Maintenance - Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) - Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) - PPE and Engineering control – The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Case Study - Hazardous Materials Handling & Storage - Tianjin Explosions - Contractor Safety Management (CSM) – Principles of CSM - Safety Performance Metrics and Continuous Improvement – PDCA Cycle – Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – KAIZEN continuous improvement - Human Factors in Safety - Safety in Research and Development - Future Trends in Industrial Safety – Fire safety – Fire classes – Fire Emergency and Fire Prevention - Fire extinguishers - CHEMICAL PLANT SAFETY and PINCH TECHNOLOGY – Heat Exchanger Networking (HEN) - Safety relief valves (SRV) – Relief Systems – SRV activity on ASPEN HYSYS - Hazard identification and Risk Assessment techniques – HAZOP study - Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) - Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) – Risk Matrix – Failure rate – Probability – Reliability – Hazard identification and Risk assessment (HIRA) – Bow-tie model – Accident Prevention and Investigation – Management of Change (MOC) – Designing an MOC system – Implementation and Monitoring – Life Cycle assessment (LCA) - CASE STUDIES INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS: Concepts - Industrial and Occupational health hazards, Housekeeping, human factors and error, stress at work, Personnel protective equipment’s, Role of trade unions in Industrial safety and health. mental health.

Teaching is by a combination of formal lectures augmented by problem solving sessions and computer practical labs

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.