A-Z for Risk, Reliability and Safety Management

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Course Introduction

This A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management training course provides a comprehensive review of learning from failures, advanced decision analysis, and operational research techniques. It focuses on real-life case studies of major disasters and failures, helping participants understand how incidents unfold and how to extract meaningful lessons. The course equips delegates with practical tools and methodologies to strengthen safety, reliability, and risk management within their organizations.

The training emphasizes Learning from Failures through the analysis of well-known disasters and the participants’ own industry experiences. By examining the root causes behind major incidents, delegates will explore how crises develop over time and identify generic lessons that can be applied across industries. This approach enables professionals to proactively prevent similar failures and improve organizational resilience.

This training course will feature:

  • Understanding safety, risk and continuity of operations
  • Development of people management and leadership skills
  • Mastering techniques that enhance plant reliability
  • Conducting benchmarking and quality systems auditing
  • Applying decision analysis approaches to real-world scenarios

Modules

This training course is split into the following modules:

Module I - Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents - Towards an Operational Excellence

Module II - Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques

Objectives

This training course is designed to provide practical skills and knowledge that can be directly applied in the workplace. Participants will gain a strong understanding of best practices in risk, reliability, and safety management, along with the ability to avoid bad practices through real case studies.

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

  • Learn best practices and avoid poor practices through analysis of major disasters across industries
  • Develop the skills needed to work as reliability, maintenance, safety, and quality professionals
  • Understand the benefits of adopting practices from High Reliability Organizations (HROs)
  • Establish effective performance metrics and implement them across operations
  • Critically assess current organizational methodologies and implement improvements for better safety and reliability

Training Methodology

This training course uses proven adult learning techniques to ensure participants understand and retain the information effectively. The approach is highly interactive, combining facilitator-led sessions with practical exercises, case studies, and group discussions. This helps learners apply theoretical concepts to real industry situations.

Participants will be encouraged to actively engage in learning through interactive activities such as reviews, scenario-based exercises, and video analysis. The course also includes structured case studies from major incidents, which helps delegates practice decision-making and develop strategies for risk reduction and operational excellence. This practical learning method ensures that the skills gained are applicable immediately in the workplace.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is highly recommended for professionals involved in operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, and technical support. It is also suitable for anyone responsible for safety, performance measurement, quality, and reliability improvement within their organization.

This training course is particularly beneficial for:

  • Operations and process professionals
  • Reliability and safety professionals
  • Maintenance and asset management teams
  • Engineering and technical support staff
  • Quality assurance and performance measurement personnel
  • Professionals involved in process improvement and risk assessment

Course Outline

Module I: Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents - Towards an Operational Excellence

Day 1: Safety Systems and Risk Management

  • Safety first
  • Learning from failures
  • Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents
  • Taxonomy of theories
  • Nature of High Reliability Organisations (HRO)
  • Risk assessment, Choice of case studies and types of recommendations

Day 2: 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 Cantered Maintenance (RCM)
  • Practical examples and case studies

Day 3: 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

Day 4: Case Studies from 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 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 5: Case Studies from Nuclear Power Generation Industry

  • Case and generic lesson learned from 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
  • Analysis and recommendations of Safety Barriers

Module II: Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques

Day 6: 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 Altitudes towards Risk
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis
  • What is Reliability Engineering
  • Choice of Models and Existing Assumptions

Day 7: 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

Day 8: A Framework of Learning and Unlearning Excellence

  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
  • Systems modelling 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 analysing near-misses and failures
  • High severity with low frequency versus high severity with high frequency

Day 9: Other Frameworks / Models of Learning from Incidents

  • Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM)
  • Risk control and decision support systems
  • Failure consequences
  • Introduction to stochastic modelling
  • Attributes of Organisational Crises
  • Inspection and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

Day 10: Towards Achieving Organisational 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

Providers and Associations

Aztech Training
Coventry

Certificate

  • Copex Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course.

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