ECSA CPD Accreditation. Credits: 3 – CPD Reference number: SAIChE 465.

This important course is first introduced through a wide ranging and thorough overview of the ’Managing of Hazloc and ATEX Requirements’. The course has also been based on extensive prior practical experience by the presenter as well as a useful review of reference material providing sound information and presentations for these stated subjects.

This course first addresses the ATEX and HazLoc Systems and the related control and management procedures. Extended details of hazardous ZONES and the implications of the equipment design for compliance, such as junction box design requirements for each ZONE categories is thoroughly presented.

A series of excellent sub-courses on a range of hazardous management topics such as fire and explosion avoidance or mitigation are then presented. These sub-courses cover extensive explanations on the variables required for the hazards to initiate as well as important concepts such as the lower and upper explosion limits with explosions and all conditions under which the hazards can propagate. The sub-courses also cover the main mechanisms, chemistry behind these catastrophes and actual details of case studies covering five explosions and five large fires providing a full overview of recorded causes and actual prevention and corrective actions adopted.

There are also some sub-courses that are always added such as thorough analyses of systems and the critical variables associated with hazardous environments – to further broaden the course and provide a summary of the highest risks of failures in Engineering. Installation of VFDs/VSDs and the positioning arrangements either in remote positions such as far distanced Motor Control Centres or positioning arrangements at the relevant motors such as on adjacent platforms are explained. The special, at the motor panels and cable arrangements for each arrangement are also elaborated.

The Course also addresses the OSH Act and the Regulations therein and the impact on engineering design approaches, as well as the links to key and leading Hazardous Engineering Standards such as SANS 347 (Pressure Vessels Criteria) and SANS 310 (Storage of Hazardous Chemicals).

The total package is thus a complete and thorough overview of Top Risks of Failure and Design for Mitigation of Hazardous Locations and Hazardous Engineering and Design to mitigate such Risks.

MAIN OBJECTIVES

The main objective is to provide engineers with the fundamentals of risk management in hazardous environments, and hazards avoidance in design and practice and to thereby limit the risk of failure.

Economic benefits are achieved with the risk avoidance and mitigation strategies as well as directions provided on good engineering practice in hazardous environments.