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A-Z for Risk, Reliability and Safety Management

Learning from Cases of Major Failures and Disasters - Putting Root Cause Analysis into Practice

A-Z for Risk, Reliability and Safety Management
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

02-13 Jun 2025
London
$11,900
08-19 Sep 2025
Dubai
$11,900
19-30 Jan 2026
Dubai
$11,900
01-12 Jun 2026
London
$11,900
07-18 Sep 2026
Dubai
$11,900
23 Nov-04 Dec 2026
Dubai
$11,900
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

The A-Z of Risk, Reliability & Safety Management training course focuses on learning from failures and applying advanced techniques in risk assessment, reliability analysis, and operational research. Participants will explore decision-making methods and apply these tools to real-world cases involving major failures and disasters.

The core objective of this course is to foster learning from past incidents by analyzing both well-known and relevant contemporary cases, including those drawn from participants' own experiences. Through the study of documented disasters, the course aims to uncover root causes, understand how such events develop over time, and extract broad, applicable lessons to improve future safety and risk management practices.

This training course will feature:

  • Understanding of safety, risk and continuity of operations
  • Development of people management skills
  • Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability
  • How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing
  • Applying decision analysis approaches

Modules

This training course is split into two modules:

Module I - Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents – Towards an Operational Excellence

Module II - Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

What are the goals?

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

  • Learn Best Practice and learn how to avoid Bad Practice through assessment of case studies of disasters in various industries
  • Gain sufficient skills to work in industry as reliability, maintenance, safety and quality professionals
  • Explain the benefits of acquiring best practices from High Reliability Organizations (HROs)
  • Determine methods for generating and implementing effective performance metrics
  • Analyze critically the methodologies employed in the organization & implement improvements

Who is this Training Course for?

This A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management training course is highly recommended for all Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and Technical Support staff. Also, this course is applicable to any person actively involved or contemplating safety, performance measurement, improvement and/or quality and reliability related activities.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Operations & Process Professionals
  • Reliability & Safety Professionals
  • Other professionals involved in process improvement

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes tutor facilitation, direct input, delegate discussions, case studies, reviews, interactive exercises and video.

The Course Content

Module 1: Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents – Towards an Operational Excellence
Day One: Safety Systems and Risk Management
  • Safety first
  • Learning from failures
  • Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents
  • Taxonomy of theories
  • Nature of High Reliability Organisations (HRO)
  • Risk assessment, Choice of case studies and types of recommendations
Day Two: Continuity of Operations – Plant Systems Reliability
  • Coping with risks, and defining reliability and resilience
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques
  • Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
  • Risk Priority Number (RPN) and Iso Critical Curves
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Blok Diagram (RBD), and Reliability Cantered Maintenance (RCM)
  • Practical examples and case studies
Day Three: A-Z of Disastrous Case Studies from Natural, Aviation, Marine and Space Industries
  • Hurricane Katrina Disaster (Natural Disasters and Evacuations)
  • NASA’s Challenger Disaster (Space Industry)
  • NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (Space Industry)
  • Titanic – The Unsinkable ship that sank (Ships Industry)
  • Exxon Valdez – Oil Spill Disaster
  • Small Groups presentations
Day Four: Case Studies from Process Industry and Oil and Gas
  • Cases and generic lesson learned from Process industry: Bhopal Disaster (Petrochemical Industry in India)
  • Case and generic lesson learned from Oil and Gas industry:  Piper Alpha Disaster (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)
  • BP Deep Water Horizon (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)
  • BP Texas City Incident (Chemical and Process Industry)
  • Small Groups Presentations
  • Generic Lessons
Day Five: Case Studies from Nuclear Power Generation Industry
  • Case and generic lesson learned from Nuclear industry: Chernobyl Disaster (Nuclear Industry)
  • Fukushima Disaster (Nuclear Industry)
  • Group work and group presentations
  • Organizational Resilience and Learning from Failures and Success
  • Action Plans
  • Analysis and recommendations of Safety Barriers
Module 2: Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques
Day Six: Why there is a need for Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques?
  • What is Risk, and Hazard?
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Risk Management
  •  Proactive vs Reactive Altitudes towards Risk
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis
  • What is Reliability Engineering
  • Choice of Models and Existing Assumptions
Day Seven: The Concept of Generic Lessons & Benchmarking
  • Attributes of the generic lessons
  • Best practice of learning from failures from different industries
  • Best practice can be learned from worst practice
  • The ten generic lessons and the three underpinning factors
  • What is benchmarking? History of benchmarking
  • Different methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other
Day Eight: A Framework of Learning and Unlearning Excellence
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
  • Systems modelling using Reliability Block Diagrams
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) / Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)
  • A framework for analysing near-misses and failures
  • High severity with low frequency versus high severity with high frequency
Day Nine: Other Frameworks / Models of Learning from Incidents
  • Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM)
  • Risk control and decision support systems
  • Failure consequences
  • Introduction to stochastic modelling
  • Attributes of Organisational Crises
  • Inspection and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
Day Ten: Towards Achieving Organisational Excellence
  • Design and Reliability of Control Systems
  • Design and Reliability of Protective Systems
  • Quantitative reliability analysis
  • A framework for Benchmarking of Resilience
  • Towards an Operational Excellence Award
  • Group Projects and Presentations

Providers and Associations

Aztech Training
Aztech Training