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Safety, Risk and Reliability Offshore

Short course

In Bedfordshire ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Short course

Course structure This course is delivered through a balanced combination of lectures and practical sessions. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion of this course.

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Subjects

  • Risk
  • Systems
  • IT risk

Course programme

What you will learn

On successful completion of this short course you will: 

  • 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 relate to the preparation of offshore safety cases.

Core content
  • Introduction: concept of RAMS, risk management and reliability engineering
  • Failure distributions: how to analyse and interpret failure data, introduce the most commonly used discrete and continuous failure distributions (e.g. Poisson, Exponential, Weibull and Normal)
  • Reliability and availability analysis: system breakdown, MTTF/MTBF/MTTR, survival, failure/hazard rate
  • Risk management process: hazard identification, assessment, evaluation and mitigation (risk acceptance, reduction, ignorance, transfer)
  • Risk assessment techniques for offshore energy systems: risk matrix, Pareto analysis, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, hazard and operability studies
  • Reliability analysis techniques for offshore energy systems: reliability block diagram, minimal cut-sets, series and parallel configurations, k-out-of-n systems, redundancies
  • Human reliability analysis and accident causation: major accident sequences, risk perception and control of risk, human reliability assessment tools: HEART and THERP
  • Offshore safety case and formal safety assessments: regulatory regime, safety case requirements, types of study, scenario development, examples of use of QRA methods, consequence analysis, vulnerability of essential systems, smoke and gas ingress, evacuation escape and rescue and typical output
  • Review of major offshore accidents: Sea Gem, Alexander Keilland, Star Canopus and Piper Alpha disaster
  • Introduction to maintainability and its various measures, impact of maintenance strategy on system reliability
  • Introduction to structural reliability analysis: stress strength interference and limit state concepts, first-order/second-order reliability method (FORM/SORM), Damage accumulation and modelling of time dependent failures
  • Workshops and case studies: Work in groups to determine the risk and reliability of subsea production systems using various tools and techniques.

Safety, Risk and Reliability Offshore

Price on request