exida Ireland

Fundamentals of Alarm Management for the Practitioner: How to Apply ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682

Mar 10 - Mar 11, 2026 - Shannon

STATUS: Registration Open (Subject to Cancellation)
Organizer Notes

This course will be held in-person at Shannon Airport House, Gateway Hub, Shannon, Co.Clare, Ireland.

The course includes extensive course notes, lunch and refreshments during the day as well as the option to sit the AMP Exam online after the conclusion of the course.

Travel, accommodation, breakfast and evening meals are not included in the cost of the course, and are for the account of the delegate.

Your instructor will be Dwane Shelton.

For more information, or to book your place contact - Lisa Anderson landerson@exida.com 

€1,400.00 | £1,200.00 excluding Vat

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Venue Details

Training Venue
Shannon Airport House
Gateway Hub
Shannon, Co.Clare
V14 E370
Venue Contact: +353 (0)61 513009

Parking at Venue
There is free parking onsite for delegates.

Included in the Course Fee
Lunch and Refreshments - if you have any special dietary requirements, please indicate these when booking.
Course Material - including training manuals and book packages (where applicable) are provided on arrival.
For the FSE 100 only - exida Safety Book Package
For the CS 100 only - exida Cyber Book Package 

Travel Arrangements and Accommodation
Flights, transport, accommodation, breakfast and evening meals are for your account, and you must book accommodation yourself with your own method of payment.
If you are booking flights and accommodation before the course is confirmed to run, please ensure you book flexible rates with a cancellation option. 
Recommendations include Park Inn by Radisson Shannon Airport and Treacys Oakwood Hotel, Shannon, and both are within 3km / 2 miles of the training venue.
The closest airport is Shannon International Airport, and there are taxi services available between the airport, training venue and hotels. 

Start / Finish Times
The training courses commence at 9:00am each day, and usually finish around 4:00pm, depending on class progress.
We aim to finish between 3:00pm and 4:00pm on the final day to allow time for travelling home.

Insurance
The organisers cannot be held responsible for accidents involving delegates, or for damage to, or loss of their personal property howsoever caused. Delegates should therefore make their own insurance arrangements.

Dress Code
Smart-Casual

We look forward to welcoming you to the course.
 


Please read our Cancellation and Reschedule Policy before signing up for any course.


Course Description:

  This Course is Also Offered Online

Effective alarm management is a pre-requisite for process plants that want to be successful in today’s global marketplace. It impacts the bottom line by minimizing unplanned downtime, reducing insurance premiums, preventing process safety incidents, and enabling operational excellence.  To deliver these benefits to the bottom line requires personnel who have been trained on industry best practices and how to apply the ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 alarm management standards. This course is designed to help personnel develop the skills and knowledge to drive effective alarm management practices within an organization.

The course is structured around the the alarm management lifecycle; reviewing the key requirements / activities of each stage along with industry best practices.  It focuses in-depth on the engineering, design, implementation, and operational and improvement tasks that would be led by the practitioner; rationalization, basic alarm design, HMI design, dynamic alarming, designed alarm suppression, alarm shelving, implementation of alarm response procedures, evaluation of alarm system performance, and use of alarms as process safety safeguards and layers of protection. Human factors principles are introduced to show how they impact effective operator performance. Exercises are designed to demonstrate key principles applied in real situations. “Lessons learned” are shared from numerous successful alarm management projects around the world and from being an “insider” during the development of the standards. 

Examples are shown from different control systems including: Emerson DeltaV, Siemens PCS 7, Rockwell PlantPAx, Honeywell Experion, ABB System 800xA, and Yokogawa Centum / CAMS.

What you Will Learn by Attending:

  • How to create and structure an effective alarm philosophy document
  • Establishing objective criteria for determining what is a valid alarm vs. an alert, prompt, or message.
  • How to rationalize alarms to ensure every alarm is meaningful to the operator and results are documented in a Master Alarm Database (cause, consequence, corrective action, time to respond) 
  • Effective alarm prioritization based on potential consequences of inaction and allowable time to respond 
  • Establishing alarm setpoints based on design constraints, operating boundaries, process dynamics, and safe operating limits
  • Effective use of alarm classification for administration, reporting, testing, performance evaluation, and MOC
  • Similarities and differences between alarm rationalization and process hazard analysis (PHA); when to leverage PHA results during rationalization
  • How to treat system / instrument diagnostic alarms and alerts
  • Effective design and implementation of safety (related) alarms
  • How to apply alarm deadband and on / off delays to prevent nuisance alarms
  • Best practices for implementing conditional alarming, state-based alarming, and alarm flood suppression
  • Keys to effectively implement / allow operators to manually suppress alarms (alarm shelving)
  • How to evaluate alarm system performance vs KPIs 
  • How to identify and resolve common alarm management issues (e.g., nuisance alarms and alarm floods)
  • Implementing an effective and useful management of change process
  • Alarm system maintenance

Who Should Attend:

  • Process engineers
  • Operators and their supervisors
  • Control system engineers
  • Safety, risk management, and environmental personnel
  • Maintenance technicians & engineers

Course Length: 2.0 days

The AMP Exam:

The Alarm Management Practitioner (AMP) Program is designed to teach end users, integrators, suppliers, and regulators how to realistically apply the most important concepts from the ISA-18.2 and IEC 62682 alarm management standards. The program was developed by exida experts who were instrumental in writing the ISA-18.2 standard and associated technical reports. It leverages exida’s experience from hundreds of alarm management projects to deliver the most important principles and the keys for success.

The AMP program will be offered in conjunction with the exida Academy Training course ALM 102 - Fundamentals of Alarm Management for the Practitioner: How to Apply ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682, which is offered generically or for specific control systems. 

The exam will be given at the conclusion of the training course, and is optional. Therefore if you wish not to participate, please let your instructor know. The candidate must achieve a minimum of 80% on the exam in order to receive their AMP certificate.