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Alarm Systems Management
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Locations
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Danubius Hotel
Regents Park, London
16 May 2012
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Outline of One-day Training Course
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1. Introduction
- How the HSE expects alarm systems to be managed
- Alarm System Management Policy
- Safety Case
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2. Core principles of Alarm System Management
- Philosophy of Alarm System Management
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3. Alarm System Design Overview
- Human Factors
- Structuring and Partitioning of Alarms
- Limits on claims for Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
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4. Design Process
- Where do alarms come from?
- Safety, environmental or economic alarms
- Qualitative risk assessment
- Choice of alarm priorities
- Alarm settings
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5. Procurement of alarm systems
- Investmentappraisal
- Cost of poor alarms performance
- Specifications to ensure usability
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6. Measuring performance
- Syndicate exercises and Surveys
- Performance metrics
- Audits and reviews
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7. Managing an improvement programme
- Dealing with unwanted alarms
- Logical processing of alarms
- Repeating and fleeting alarms
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8. HAZOP and Alarms
- Alarms in context
- Preparations and Boundaries
- Operator Interface
- Alarm Suppression Hazard Study
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9. Summary
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 DR TONY FOORD CEng MIEE is a principal engineer of 4-sight
Consulting and specialist in operational risk, reliability and functional safety. He has 35 years experience of control,
monitoring and protection systems in the energy, nuclear, process, transport and utilities industries. His experience includes design,
maintenance and operations management of oil and petrochemical processes; and more recently risk assessments of
power stations and process plant. His current focus is on the interactions between safety systems and operators. [Top]
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 COLIN HOWARD CEng FInstMC MInstP is an independent
consultant with 35 years experience in Instrument, Control and Electrical Engineering, Quality and SHE Management. In his
career he has been responsible for maintenance, control engineering, design, standardisation, supply chain development
and development of the design process. He has worked in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries for ICI and
its successors, latterly with Eutech Engineering Solutions as a Senior Lead Consultant. His recent activities have been in the
assessment and implementation of SHE management systems, risk assessments of process plant, the application development of
IEC61508 and the introduction of the CASS scheme. A focus of this work has been the
integrity and risk potential of control and protective systems and their interface with operating staff. [Top]
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 BILL GULLAND CEng MIEE MInstMC is a principal consultant
of 4-sight Consulting involved in preparation of safety cases for offshore installations and the independent assessment of safety
-related systems and instrument-based protective systems. He worked for 13 years in the petrochemical industry for ICI, as a
process control engineer, plant manager, and control systems commissioning engineer. In 1980 he joined the oil industry with
BNOC / Britoil / BP Exploration, with whom he held various engineering and project management posts concerned with the
support of existing offshore installations and the design and commissioning of new ones. He was particularly involved in the response to the Piper A
disaster, and in a number of projects which employed high integrity protection systems (HIPSs). [Top]
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Fees
Course Fee: £495 + VAT
EEMUA Members: Please contact us for a discount on the standard course fee.
Payment can be made by:
- Cheque drawn on a UK bank
- Sterling banker's draft on a UK bank
- Crossed international money order
- Sterling traveller's cheques
- Credit or debit card
Cheques or orders should be made payable to 4-sight Consulting.
Substitutions may be made at any time, but an administrative charge of £50 will be made for any bookings
cancelled up to 14 days before the start of the course. After this time no fees are refundable. [Top]
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Booking
By phone: +44 (0)1582 462324
By fax: +44 (0)1582 462324
By post: 4-sight Consulting
Southern Office
51 Cowper Road
Harpenden, Herts
AL5 5NJ
[Print Booking Form]
By email:
Training@4-sightConsulting.co.uk
[Book Online]
Accommodation
Details of overnight accommodation at local hotels are available on request. [Top]
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