Facility Siting Hazards Analysis Techniques

Who Should Attend this course?

• Those who must perform facility siting hazard analyses
• Those who review facility siting hazard analyses performed by others
• Those who supervise engineers that perform facility siting hazard analyses

what will i learn in this course?

• Know how to apply techniques for calculating the effects from fire and toxic hazards, including evaluating the vulnerability of personnel evacuations
• Know how to apply blast curve techniques for calculating vapor cloud explosions, pressure vessel bursts, boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions and chemical runaway or decomposition reactions.
• Understand when more detailed analysis techniques such as Computational Fluid Dynamics may be of benefit.
• Understand how blast loads are applied to buildings
• Learn about different dynamic analysis methods including material properties and response criteria
• Review different building types and understand their specific vulnerabilities to blast loads
• Understand the tools and methods used to evaluate potential building damage from explosions using dynamic analysis techniques.
• Understand non-structural and window glass fragment hazards including basic mitigation techniques

DURATION: 2 days

Day 1: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Process Hazards Fundamentals Important to Facility Siting
• Explosion Hazards Analysis Techniques
• Fire Hazards Analysis Techniques
• Toxic Hazards Analysis Techniques
• Quantitative Risk Assessments
• Workshops performing Explosion, Fire and Toxic Hazards Calculations

Day 2: 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Structural Hazards Analysis Techniques
  • Applied Blast Loads
  • Material Strengths and Response Criteria
  • Dynamic Analysis Methods
• Building Types and Damage Examples
• Design Applications and Upgrades
• Windows Doors and Non-Structural Hazards
• Facility Siting Myths

Mr. Greg Knight - Technical Manager, Process Hazards / Advanced Engineering Division, ABS Consulting

Mr. Ben Harrison - Director, Structural Hazards / Advanced Engineering Division, ABS Consulting

Mr. Johnny Waclawczyk - Director, Operations

Mr. Chris Leboeuf, P.E. - Technical Manager, Structural Hazards / Advanced Engineering Division, ABS Consulting

COURSES

• API RP 752 and 753: Facility Siting Regulations and Compliance

SERVICES

• Advanced Engineering
• We can teach this course at your office. Request onsite training.

WEBINAR

• Cal/OSHA's PSM Regulation: Facility Siting and Revalidation