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

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Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents – Towards an Operational Excellence
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

02-06 Jun 2025
London
$5,950
08-12 Sep 2025
Dubai
$5,950
19-23 Jan 2026
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

The Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents training course introduces a novel approach to understanding major disasters and improving safety practices across various industries. It examines the root causes of incidents and explores preventive measures to enhance safety. The course connects theoretical concepts with practical applications in risk management, safety, and reliability analysis. It utilizes analytical techniques from equipment failure reliability analysis, multi-criteria decision-making, and artificial intelligence.

Targeted at professionals from sectors such as oil and gas, nuclear power, aviation, marine, and process industries, the course features prominent case studies from these fields. It includes numerous examples of modeling and decision analysis, along with a set of broad lessons and themes that are relevant to professionals in other industries as well.

This training course will feature:

  • Different approaches for learning from failures
  • Aspects of risk management and risk assessment
  • An interdisciplinary approach, combining risk analysis, reliability engineering, decision analysis and management science
  • Socio technical aspects of risk and disasters
  • Modeling and multiple criteria decision analysis

What are the goals?

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

  • 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

Who is this Training Course for?

This Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents Training Course is highly recommended for all Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and Technical Support staff. Also, this training course is applicable to any person actively involved or contemplating safety, performance measurement, improvement and/or quality and reliability related activities. It will also benefit:

  • General Managers and Chief Executives who are interested in Safety and Resilience
  • Senior Managers and Supervisors
  • Operations & Process Professionals
  • Reliability & Safety Professionals
  • Other professionals involved in process improvement
  • Maintenance Managers and Engineers

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. Proposed models and case studies covered will be used in the teachings, and also draws on material from the research.

The Course Content

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

Providers and Associations

Aztech Training
Aztech Training