What’s the best thing you can do about accidental releases of the hazardous materials floating and sloshing around in your plant’s closed system?  Keep them contained in the first place.

This course covers the fundamentals of what engineers and managers in diverse chemical engineering industries need to know to keep their hazardous materials where they belong.  It discusses how to accurately identify, classify, and evaluate process hazards, and then rank them by how likely they are to precipitate an industrial accident.  The course covers consequence modeling as a preventive technique, and provides the latest best practices applications related to layout and spacing, system isolation, grading and drainage, relief and blowdown, electrical area classification, fire protection, and human factors.  Other issues discussed are hazard release scenarios for leaks and spills, such as fires, explosions, and toxic effects; operating practices, including human factors and instrumentation and process control; metallurgy as it relates to mechanical integrity; loss prevention principles; a study of significant incidents and their causes; and how to analyze risk and reliability.