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LOPA Fundamentals and Applications

November 2015

Time:
Day 1: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Day 2: 8:30am to 3:30pm

Audience:
Process Safety, Process Engineering, Operations, and Instrumentation and Electrical

CEUs:
1.4

Prerequisite:
PHA course with subsequent experience or workplace experience with PHA/LOPA

Price:
$990. Class registration is through Texas A&M University’s Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center. http://psc.tamu.edu/education/schedule-of-classes-registration

Course Instructor:
Bill Hearn

Course Description:
Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a popular risk analysis technique.  It is conducted after a process hazards analysis has identified hazardous events needing further analysis to better understand the functional and risk reduction requirements for the safeguards. This course discusses the fundamentals of Layer of Protection Analysis, including the risk criteria, key work process elements, and methodology options. The course uses workshop examples to illustrate the methodology and emphasize key learning points.

1st Day

  • Risk Management
    • Process Risk Measurements
    • PHA Workshop
  • Risk Criteria
    • Hazardous and Harmful Events
    • Enabling Conditions and Conditional Modifiers
    • LOPA Criteria
    • Frequency Workshop
  • Independent Protection Layers (IPL)
    • Types
    • Assessing Independence
    • Independence Workshop
  • Core Attributes
    • Core Attributes Workshop

2nd Day

  • LOPA Methodology
    • Initiating Cause Frequency
    • IPL Risk Reduction
    • Independence of control and instrumented safety functions
    • LOPA IPL Workshop
  • IPLs and Side Effects
    • Understanding Secondary Consequences
  • Multiple LOPA Workshop Examples

Course developed by Dr. Angela Summers & William Hearn


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