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Barriers in the Process Industry - Master Bowtie Analysis.
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Barriers in the Process Industry - Master Bowtie Analysis.

Your guidance to understand barriers and master Bowtie Barrier Analysis.
Created byMohamed Mesbah
Last updated 3/2025
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Students will gain the knowledge to identify all types of process safety barriers in the process, petroleum, and chemical industries.
  • Students will gain the knowledge to easily generate bowtie diagrams.
  • Students will gain the knowledge to conduct a successful physical barrier assessments.
  • Students will learn how to assure barriers strength through physical barrier assessments
  • Students will understand the linkage between the process safety indicators and barriers

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Course content

5 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 2m total length

  • Course Introduction2:39

    Learn to build bow tie diagrams by identifying hazards, top events, and consequences, then map barriers and degradation controls to manage threats and safeguard assets.

  • Basic Definitions2:47

    Identify hazards and how harm could occur, assess their magnitude and probability to manage risks, and define barriers like safety relief valves and active firefighting systems that prevent top events.

  • Barrier Models1:30
  • Bow Tie Diagrams2:39

    Explore bow tie diagrams as a common risk management tool, visually linking hazards, top events, consequences, threats, and barriers; identify degradation factors, controls, and responsibilities to ensure barrier effectiveness.

  • Bow Tie Exercise (LPG Uncontrolled Release)14:12

    Develop a bow tie diagram for LPG presence and uncontrolled release, identifying hazards, threats, consequences, and barriers to prevent or mitigate major accident hazards.

  • Real samples of defected barriers0:47

    Explore defective barriers found in facilities and preview barrier types and categories from different recognized guidelines as part of the master bowtie analysis.

Requirements

  • Students should have a basic knowledge about the process industry , process equipment and operations.

Description

The main objective of this course is to shed the light on the importance of barriers that could prevent and mitigate the impact of catastrophic process safety incidents such as fires, explosions, and toxic releases.

In this course, we will talk about barriers in the process industry and how to identify barriers based on the most recognized and generally acceptable recommended practices such the International Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), and Energy Institute (EI).

We will also illustrate bow tie diagrams and we will describe ,in details, how to develop a bow tie diagram for any hazardous scenario from scratch using one of the best software in the market (Bow tie XP).

The common barrier models and the relationship between barriers effectiveness assurance and the process safety indicators will be covered during the course.

In this course, you will also be exposed to four examples for events where barriers failed and we will identify together those barriers.

Finally, process safety auditors and assessors whose role is to identify defects in any facility barriers will be given a practical approach for effective physical barrier assessment.

I hope you enjoy this compressed course and please do not hesitate to ask for any clarifications.

Accept my greetings,

Mohamed Mesbah

Who this course is for:

  • Process safety engineers
  • Process safety auditors
  • Asset Integrity engineers
  • Operations engineers
  • Plant managers
  • HSE engineers
  • Area supervisors
  • Process engineers

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