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Introduction to Bow-tie Diagrams Seminar

When: Thursday, February 25, 2010; registration 7:30 am, program 8-11 am

Cost: No Charge

Where: 10655 Katy Fwy (I-10) near West Sam Houston Tollway (West Beltway 8)
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About Bow-tie Diagrams
Three common risk management mistakes are:

Not learning from history to understand and manage potential accidents
Not communicating the essence of potential accidents and risks, and
Not checking that necessary control and recovery measures are in place and working

The beauty of bow-tie diagrams is they help you consolidate and summarize key information about accidents, including lessons learned. The end product is an effective, powerful graphic communication tool that is easily understood throughout the organization.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the concept of bow-tie analysis for industrial facilities. Materials will cover the background of bow-tie diagrams, when bow-ties are used, and how to create a basic bow-tie diagram.

Who Should Attend

HSE managers and analysts
Loss prevention and control managers and analysts
Process safety managers and engineers

Benefits of Attending

Course participants will leave with a fundamental understanding of the use of bow-tie diagrams to document potential hazardous events, historical accidents and incidents, and recovery plans for future events to better anticipate and mitigate health, safety, and environmental damages.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain what a bow-tie diagram is
Identify the major parts of a bow-tie diagram
Explain the benefits of bow-tie diagramming today
Describe situations in which bow-tie diagrams can help HSE and compliance
Create a simple bow-tie diagram
List and compare tools used to create bow-tie diagrams

Instructor

Ms. Saud is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) with 19 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. She holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Universidad de Oriente-Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela and a master of science degree in safety and health from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her specialist training includes OSHA Process Safety Management and quantitative HSE studies and modeling. As a principal risk and safety consultant for IRC since 2008, she has conducted various risk assessments, such as bow-tie analysis, HAZOP, PHA, FRA, QRA, incident investigations, and ISO 14001 gap analysis, for such clients as Repsol, Pride, Fluor, and Hess.

Technology

Participants need not bring any electronic tools. However, for those who wish to bring their laptops for personal use, such as note-taking, electrical outlets will be available. Internet access is not available in the meeting room.

Disclosure Statement

Both IRC Risk and Safety, LLC, (IRC) and Yaneira Saud are international consultants whose business is to provide bow-tie analyses and other risk and hazard analysis and consequence modeling services to industrial facilities. IRC also is a distributor of BowTieXP software.

More Information

Contact: Marlane Kayfes, Seminar Registrar
registration@ircrisk.com
t 713.647.7929