Lecture 1
1) What is the Loss Model
2) What are the Source Terms
3) How would you model Holes for gases including factors
4) How would you model Holes for Liquids including factors
5) How would you model ruptures
6) How would you model spreading
7) How would you model evaporation
8) What are the two types of flame? Which is more stable, which is more radiating?
9) What is the heat load equation, what affects it?
10) What is BLEVE
11) What is Boil over
12) What are the four types of fires and their models where relevant
13) Which is the highest SEP
14) What are the zones in a pool fire
Lecture 2
1) Condition for sustained combustion?
2) Define autoignition, fire point and flash point?
3) Define UFL and LFL ?
4) What is UFL usually given by? What does is it inversely proportional to?
5) How do you determine flashpoint? Give examples where possible?
6) What are the two methods of representing end point criteria
7) What happens to lethality as you increase exposure time?
Lecture 3
1) Define dispersion
2) What causes turbulence
3) What models turbulence
4) Link between turbulence and height
5) Define lapse rate and adiabatic lapse rate
6) Discuss stability of vapour clouds with reference to Pasquils Stability
Lecture 4
1) Define explosion
2) Define Vapour Cloud explosion and conditions
3) Define detonation and deflagration
4) What is the effect of explosions on buildings
5) How does the effect vary with location i.e open vs different buildings
6) What are the barriers to limit release of materials
7) What are the barriers to reduce severity of physical effects
Lecture 5
1) What is Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability
2) Which calculation between probability and frequency is not correct?
3) What are the factors affecting process plant risk
4) What are the four types of risk
5) What is the formula for individual and societal risk
6) What is the categories for individual risk
7) What are two ways you can judge societal risk? Explain them
Lecture 6
1) What is inherent safety
2) What does it consist of
3) Give me an example of each
Lecture 7
1) What are the factors that affect the scale of a hazard
2) Define incident, accident and near miss
3) What are the immediate causes to an event? Give examples
4) What are the basic causes to an event? Give examples
5) What are the management system failures?
6) What is the commonest reason for Loss of Containment?
7) Give reasons for why loss of containment could happen?
Lecture 8
1) What are the main types of incidents
Lecture 9
1) What are the advantages and disadvantages of FTA
2) What is a cut set and what is a minimal cut set
3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of ETA
4) What is a bow tree diagram and the link to FTA and ETA
Lecture 10
1) What is prevention of incidents
2) What is mitigation of incidents
3) What are the components of loss prevention process
4) What is procedural safety
Lecture 11
1) What is the approach to hazard identification
2) What is checklist analysis? Advantages and Disadvantages
3) Examples of checklist analysis categories
4) What is what if analysis? Advantages and Disadvantages
5) What is hazid?
6) What are hazid guidewords?
7) What is needed for a hazid?
8) What hazards must be identified, what is ideally identified and what isn’t expected to be
identified?
9) What is hazop analysis? Advantages and disadvantages?
10) What are the main types?
11) What is non-credible for Hazops
12) What is FMEA?
13) What is LOPA
14) What is Swiss Cheese Theory
Lecture 12
1) What are the key components of a safety management system?
2) What is safety culture?
3) What does safety culture consist of?
4) What is the safety culture ladder?
5) What is behavioural safety?
6) What is the breakdown of human errors?
7) How would you change behavioural safety? Is it easy?
Lecture 13
1) Describe permit to work and its main features
2) What are some problems with it
3) Give some examples of when permit to work is used?
4) Rules for isolation
5) Types of isolation
6) Rules for entering a process vessel
Lecture 14
1) Main aims of accident investigation?
2) Problems encountered when investigating?
Other Additional Stuff to Know
• Memorise the ETAs and FTAs
• Draw P&IDs
• Look over calculations for availability, Probit and expected values
• If you have time look over case studies
