As it was once said, “The control room of a Process Plant is hours or days of boring places as processes are running smoothly which is now and then punctuated by moments of terrifying nightmare in an instant, due to alarm(s) sounding”.
In this 2-days workshop, delegates will be taught on how to tackle the problem with ‘false positive’ alarms which could over time, tire out the operators or persons involved and thus becoming a risk. Refresher topics on an overview of alarm and its context in the process plants will be introduced firstly followed by class exercises on what makes a good alarm practices and to understand how adding an alarm will instead make the tank for likely to overflow.
There on, Alan will be touching on heart of alarm management, the troubles, and on how to tackle by guiding the delegates on how to think and come out with proper Alarm Management solutions. These topics will be the heart of this 4-days workshop and Alan will proceed by discussing on how to implement the identified good alarm management solutions in your process plants.
This workshop is ladened with class exercises to help delegates to understand and grasp the topics and by the end of the workshop, delegates will have better technical capability and leadership in managing alarms at their own process plants.
This course is aimed at anyone involved with managing alarms at any chemical or processing plant at operator, supervisor, engineer or management levels. Numerous plants are experiencing excessive alarms all the time, which defeats their purpose as effective safety mechanisms. This is a well-known problem that is being pursued by regulators worldwide. Many standards and documents are available that describe what must be done, but not how to do it. This course is designed to discuss how to tackle the problem and thereby transition to a well-managed plant.
The course is intended to be an open course using generic (non-proprietary) examples and case studies, but can be adapted with site specific case studies if available.
Engineers, Executives, Supervisors, and Managers especially those who work in Technical & Planning, Production & Operation, Engineering, and HSE departments in Refinery, Tank Terminals and Farms, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Petrochemical facilities will benefit by attending this course. Professionals who work directly in the Process Safety will derive utmost benefits by tapping and relate with Trainer’s experiences.
Potential job titles (not exhaustive) are listed out as follow:
- HSE Managers
- HSE Engineers
- HSE Coordinators
- Mechanical Engineer
- Process Safety Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Reliability Engineer
- Maintenance Engineer
- Process Engineer
- Process Safety Managers
- Maintenance Managers
- Managers, Engineers, and Supervisors at all levels who are responsible for the safe operation of facilities
“Alan is an extremely diligent, conscientious, and experienced engineer. His knowledge of processes in Refining is second to none and dedication to safety unsurpassed. Alan has been extremely helpful on advising us over SIL requirements and standards that apply around the world and advised how we should and can comply with these. He has assisted with evaluating various instrument/SIF installations and his operating background and HAZOP experience has helped us to understand the nature of the process an the type of deposit that is causing the blockage as well as the nature of the hazard and its seriousness.”
Hans Sauer
Managing Director at Clearguard, Australia
“Alan is a rare combination of chemical engineer, process safety engineer and experienced refinery engineer. I have worked
with Alan on several occasions, he is very knowledgeable, takes a pragmatic view on his work and is very easy to get on
with. He assisted us with a full safety assessment of a new oil tank farm taking into account recommendations from the
Buncefield incident. His proactive approach led him to research the subject thoroughly before embarking on the study, which
was very impressive.”
Roger Rayner
Managing Director at Flexible Process
