An intensive professional development training course on
A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management
Learning from Cases of Major Failures and Disasters -
Putting Root Cause Analysis into Practice
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 & 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.
Why Choose A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management Training Course?
This A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management training course examines learning from failures and techniques for decision analysis with emphasis on the use of advanced risk, reliability and operational research techniques and applying them to cases of major failures and disasters.
The idea of the A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management training course is to look at Learning from Failures. This will be through examining known and topical cases, as well as cases related to the particular own experience of the delegates. This will be based on the analysis of reported disasters with the aim of exploring techniques that can help us to understand the root causes of why those incidents occurred and how such crises unfold over time and hence how can we learn generic lessons from those disasters.
This A-Z for Risk, Reliability & Safety Management 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
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day training courses.
Module 1 - Case Studies for Learning from Major Failures
Module 2 - Advanced Risk, Reliability and Safety Management Techniques
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
The Course Content
Module 1: Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents – Towards an Operational Excellence
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 & 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
How Aztech Saudi Can Enhance Your Professional Career
At Aztech Saudi, we believe that professional development is the foundation of long-term career success. This training course is expertly designed to equip individuals with practical skills, forward-thinking strategies, and the confidence to navigate today’s dynamic work environments. Each course is delivered by subject matter specialists with extensive industry experience, ensuring that every learning experience is relevant, impactful, and aligned with real-world challenges. Whether you're looking to strengthen your technical expertise, enhance leadership abilities, or stay ahead of industry trends, Aztech Saudi provides the tools you need to elevate your performance and deliver measurable value to your organization.
Our training is more than just knowledge transfer—it’s a catalyst for career transformation. By participating in our courses, professionals gain a competitive advantage in their fields, improve their decision-making capabilities, and position themselves for new opportunities and leadership roles. We take pride in supporting individuals across various sectors and career stages, helping them unlock their full potential through high-quality, globally benchmarked learning experiences. With Aztech Saudi as your development partner, you’re not only investing in education—you're investing in a stronger, more successful future.
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