CH3021 Process Safety Management Syllabus:
CH3021 Process Safety Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
UNIT I PROCESS SAFETY INFORMATION
Safety vs Process Safety, Importance of Process Safety, Elements of Process safety – Overview ; Process Safety Information (PSI) – Importance of Process Safety Information , Types of PSI, Collection of PSI, familiarization of formats for capturing PSI, Challenges
UNIT II SAFETY PROGRAMMES AND PROCEDURES
Need for safety in industries; Safety Programmes – components and realization; Potential hazards – extreme operating conditions, toxic chemicals; safe handling-Implementation of safety procedures – periodic inspection and replacement; Standard Operating Procedure – Overview and its importance, how to write effective operating procedure, Types of Procedures, Standard operating conditions and consequence of deviation; Emergency planning
UNIT III ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
Accidents – identification and prevention, promotion of industrial safety. Process Safety Incident reporting and Investigation – Element overview, reporting and its importance; Process safety incident classification, Root cause analysis, making recommendations ; Past accident analysisFixborough-Mexico- Chernobyl nuclear disaster-Bhopal gas analysis- process safety indicators
UNIT IV PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSIS
Hazard identification- safety audits, checklist, what if analysis, vulnerability models- event tree analysis- fault tree analysis. Asset Integrity Process Hazard Analysis – Introduction to PHA, Overview of PHA Techniques, Selection of PHA techniques Implementation of recommendation – Key Aspects. Cyclic PHA /Revalidation; Review of PHA methodology (Prerequisites, Team Composition and their attributes)
UNIT V SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Employee Participation – Overview, Benefits of Employee participation, Various modes of engaging workforce in PSM, Challenges; Management of Change – Types of Changes, Managing Changes in PSM Perspective, Framework, evaluating changes-Institutionalizing and integrating safety into the PSM fabric, 5 tier approach, selection, training, Performance monitoring; Case studies – Process safety management in industry – present and futuristic approach.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
CO1 – Understand the chemical process safety, safety codes
CO2 – safe handling of chemicals and plant inspection
CO3 – learn the different analysis to overcome the accidents in process industry
CO4 – understand the hazard analysis in process industry
CO5 – knowledge on safety management in different process industry
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Daniel A. Crowl, J.F. Louvar, Prantice Hall, NJ, 1990.
2. Fawatt, H.H. and Wood, W.S., “Safety and Accident Prevention in Chemical Operation“, Wiley Interscience, 1965.
3. Marcel, V.C., Major Chemical Hazard- Ellis Harwood Ltd., Chi Chester, UK, 1987.
4. Hyatt, N., Guidelines for process hazards analysis, hazards identification & risk analysis, Dyadem Press, 2004
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Handley, W., “Industrial Safety Hand Book “, 2nd Edn., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
2. Heinrich, H.W. Dan Peterson, P.E. and Rood, N., “Industrial Accident Prevention“, McGrawHill Book Co., 1980.
3.Taylor, J.R., Risk analysis for process plant, pipelines and transport, Chapman and Hall, London, 1994