Course Objective

• The aim of this course is to describe practical approaches and methods for safety analysis, especially for applications in the regular occupational environment. The idea is to give simple straightforward descriptions and relate practical experiences to promote wider use of the methodology.

 Course Outline

• Accidents and safety
  • The accident problem
  • Why analyses?
• Safety analysis
  • What is safety analysis?
  • Safety analysis procedure
  • A short methodological overview
• Job Safety Analysis
  • Principles
  • Job Safety Analysis procedure
  • Example
• Deviation Analysis
  • Principles
  • On deviations
  • Deviation Analysis procedure
  • Examples
  • Accident investigation
  • Comments
• Analysis of safety functions
  • introduction
  • Safety in different sectors
  • Methods for analysis of barriers and safety
  • Safety Barrier Diagrams
  • Concept of safety function
  • Safety Function Analysis
  • Example of Safety Function Analysis

• Some further methods
  • introduction
  • Technically oriented methods
  • Human-oriented methods
  • Task analysis
  • Management oriented methods
  • Coarse analyses
• Methodological overview
  • Summary of methods
  • Comparison between methods
  • Other methodological aspects
  • On choice of methods
• Safety analysis—planning and implementation
  • Strategy and planning
  • Aims and preparations
  • Analytical procedure
• Information and analysis
• Safety measures and decisions
• Costs and benefits
• Integrated approaches
• Theoretical aspects
  • introduction
  • On models and theories
  • Quality of safety analyses
  • Examining analytical procedure
  • Problems in risk assessment
• Examples of safety analysis

Who Can Benefit?

• Any participants familiar with basic safety and loss prevention and want to gain a basic understanding of safety analysis