Overview

PS-4 for Process Safety Engineering

 About the Course

 The process safety engineering course PS-4 is a one-week, competency-driven, fundamental course that emphasizes knowledge rather than skillful practice. The focus is on the technical content, but other pertinent issues are included to explain how process safety engineering fits into the larger framework of risk management and process safety management. The principles can be used throughout the hydrocarbon processing industries, even if many of the examples are from upstream and midstream oil and gas facilities.

 Risk analysis, naturally safer designs, process hazards analysis, layers of protection analysis, historical incident databases, leakage and dispersion, combustion behavior, ignition sources, particular systems and equipment ("bad actors"), layout and spacing, relief and flare, corrosion and material selection, monitoring and control, safety instrumented systems, and fire and explosion principles are some of the subjects covered. Several of these subjects are covered in relation to process safety, which makes them ideal for one-week fundamental courses in and of itself. PS-4 covers these subjects in enough detail so that learners can delve more into any particular area of process safety engineering as and when they need to.

 We are presenting a session in cooperation with the Oman Institute of Oil & Gas in Muscat from November 12 to 16 in addition to the open sessions indicated to the right. view more information

 The goal of the course is to shorten the learning curve for process safety for participants. Nearly every week, there are serious process safety events somewhere in the industry, and most, if not all, follow the same pattern of failure in various operational scenarios. The discussion of important incidents, including some that have had an impact on our regulatory environment, is one of the ways PS-4 accomplishes one of its core goals, which is to acquire understanding of the more prevalent ways things might go wrong. Graduates of PS-4 should be able to view their facilities and projects from a fresh angle, with a new understanding of both how things succeed and fail. Additionally, they will understand the rationale behind some of our process safety procedures and laws, which will help ensure that they are applied consistently and intelligently.

 In a late 1960s essay, Jesse Ducommon argued that, rather than picking up lessons the hard way, we should instead draw on the experiences of others. We are still learning the hard way, and doing so comes at an astronomical and largely unneeded cost in terms of people, money, and the environment. A significant contributor to cutting those costs is PS-4.

 Target Audience

 Anyone who needs to collaborate with process safety engineers, such as facilities engineers, operations and maintenance managers, project engineers and managers, entry-level process safety engineers, seasoned professionals new to the oil and gas industry, and anyone who needs a general understanding of the scope of the process safety engineering discipline. The course has been helpful to technical workers from insurance companies and regulatory bodies. PS-2, Fundamentals of Process Safety, may be of interest to those who need a less technical course, and HS45 covers risk-based process safety management.

Course Objectives

•  Basic principles of risk analysis Equipment and process systems that have traditionally caused problems in the upstream and midstream oil and gas industries
• Utilizing the Inherently Safer Design principle
• Common process hazard analysis techniques and applications
• Understanding the notion of levels of protection and how they are implemented Methods for identifying and reducing various threats

Course Outlines

•  Problematic situations and earlier occurrences Basics of risk analysis
• Overview of process risks analysis methods layers of defense
• innately safer construction
• Risks related to process fluids
• Releases of hydrocarbons by leakage and dispersion Hydrocarbons' behavior during combustion
• ignition sources
• risks connected to particular plant systems Equipment spacing and plant layout
• systems for pressure release and disposal selection of materials and corrosion Control and monitoring of the process instrumented systems for safety
•  principles for preventing fires security from explosions