Alarm management
Date From: 24 April 2012
Date To: 26 April 2012
Location: UK
Description: Focuses on the various aspects of alarm management and rationalisation.
Event Type: IChemE Approved Course
Venue: Manchester, UK
Organiser: ABB Engineering Services, Manchester, UK
Contact Name: Jackie Kendall
Contact Phone: +44 (0) 1642 372121
Alternative dates
2-4 October 2012 - Edinburgh, Scotland
16-18 October 2012 - Cork, Ireland
Fees
IChemE member - £1460.00 + VAT
Non-member - £1575.00 + VAT
Course director
Tony Atkinson and Peter Bruce, ABB Engineering Services
You will learn:
On completion you should be able to:
- understand why alarm systems should be managed have a good awareness of EEMUA 191 and its core principles
- develop an alarm system management strategy
- better understand effective alarm usage and how to configure alarms
- have an understanding of how to measure and what tools are available
- understand what is required to run an alarm rationalisation project
- identify nuisance alarms and assemble a toolkit that helps reduce them.
Outline the course programme:
- standards & guidance; ASM, ISA, HSE, NAMUR, with the main focus on EEMUA 191
- managing your alarm system; writing an alarm management strategy and defining performance targets
- alarm system design; writing an alarm design strategy, design considerations, human factors and HMI design
- alarm logging & analysis tools; outline specification, generation of reports, analysis techniques
- running an alarm rationalisation project; planning, review process, benchmarking, identifying areas for improvement, prioritisation, risk assessments, nuisance alarm reduction, alarm flood reduction, advanced alarm management.
Who will benefit?
Anyone involved in the specification, design, operation and maintenance of control systems or anyone who has an interest in improving their current alarm system.