ALARM MANAGEMENT

Course Description

Effective Operator response to abnormal situations can be a valuable layer of protection in any risk management system.

However, the failure to effectively deal with abnormal situations is a key contributing factor in numerous, serious process accidents. With the advent of modern distributed control systems, a comprehensive alarm management program is becoming increasingly important to ensure plant safety, reliability and productivity goals are achieved.

The course teaches basic alarm management techniques with several examples and is founded on best practice - including EEMUA 191.

To provide the following insight into alarm management

• What alarms actually are and why they are required.
• The regulatory and industry focus on alarm management.
• To develop and execute an Alarm Philosophy.
• How to do measure alarm system performance.
• Objective alarm Rationalization and Prioritization.
• Effective alarm and HMI design for new & existing facilities.
• The importance of Operator training, evaluation & feedback.
• The benefits of alarm maintenance and continuous improvement
• To successfully implement Management of Change processes

• Process Engineers
• Safety Engineers
• Maintenance Technicians & Engineers
• Plant Managers
• Process Operators & Supervisors
• Control & Systems Engineers

Familiarity with process operations and an awareness of automation system functionality

1 Day