Week - 1 |
Introduction and Safety Programs (Safety culture, engineering ethics, acceptable risk, accident statistics) |
Week - 2 |
The Nature of Accidents and Intrinsic Safety Approach (Accident processes, intrinsic safety, public perception, major industrial accidents (Flixborough, Bhopal, Seveso etc.)) |
Week - 3 |
Toxicology I - Routes of Entry and Distribution of Toxic Substances in the Body (Intake via digestion, skin, respiratory system; elimination pathways) |
Week - 4 |
Toxicology II - Effects, Dose-Response and Limit Values (Dose-response curves, LD50, TLV, PEL, REL concepts) |
Week - 5 |
Industrial Hygiene I - Legislation and Hazard Identification (OSHA, EPA, MSDS, risk management plans) |
Week - 6 |
Industrial Hygiene II - Assessment and Control Techniques (Monitoring methods, respirable dusts, gases, vapors, ventilation and respirators) |
Week - 7 |
Source Models I - Liquid and Gas Flow (Flow through holes, flow through pipes, flashing, evaporation) |
Week - 8 |
Source Models II - Worst Case Scenarios and Approaches (Realistic and conservative scenarios, 2-K method, vapor-explosion models) |
Week - 9 |
Dispersion Models (Pasquill-Gifford models, wind effect, dense gas dispersion, toxic effect criteria) |
Week - 10 |
Fires and Explosions (Fire triangle, flash/burn limits, vapor cloud explosions, BLEVE, flaring) |
Week - 11 |
Fire and Explosion Prevention Designs (Inerting, static electricity, grounding, ventilation, XP equipment) |
Week - 12 |
Pressure Relief Systems (Relief valves, discs, scenario determination, installation, equipment (knockout drum, flare, scrubber etc.)). )) |
Week - 13 |
Risk Assessment and Hazard Identification Methods (HAZOP, checklist, fault tree, event tree, QRA, LOPA) |
Week - 14 |
Accident Investigations and Case Studies (Layered analysis, case examples (reaction accidents, tank explosions, human error), lessons learned) |