CATEGORY: Performance and Productivity

Case Studies for Learning From Major Failures – Towards an Operational Excellence

Course Access: Lifetime
Course Overview

Duration: 5 days 

Course Description 

This a new methodology for learning from major disasters and driving change in industry safety. It explores the root cause of disasters and various preventive measures. It also links theory with practice in regard to risk, safety and reliability analysis. It uses analytical techniques originating from reliability analysis of equipment failures, multiple criteria decisions making and artificial intelligence domains. 

The case studies of major failures and disasters are intended to be from different industries such as oil and gas, nuclear power generation, aviation, marine, and process industries. It focuses on a number of well-known case studies including: The Titanic, the BP Texas City Incident, the Chernobyl Disaster, the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Accident, the Bhopal Disaster, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster, and the Concorde Accident. This includes many examples for modeling and decision analysis. 

Who should attend 

  • Operations & Process Professionals 

  • Reliability & Safety Professionals 

  • Other professionals involved in process improvement 

  • Maintenance Engineers 

  • Senior Managers and Supervisors 

What you will learn 

  • Different approaches for learning from failures 

  • Aspects of risk management and risk assessment 

  • An interdisciplinary approach, combining risk analysis, reliability engineering, decision analysis and management science 

  • Socio technical aspects of risk and disasters 

  • Modeling and multiple criteria decision analysis 

Course objectives 

  • Understanding of safety, risk and continuity of operations 

  • Development of people management skills 

  • Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability 

  • How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing 

  • Applying decision analysis approaches