Introduction to Alarm Management

This course provides an introduction and overview of alarm management. We will review a history of alarm management published standards ANSI/ISA18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, and the IEC version, IEC62682 of the same name.

The course will provide an introduction to what are standards and how they are used by regulatory bodies. In addition, the course will cover the importance of alarm management and review several significant industry incidents which casual factors were due to poor alarm management.

The alarm management lifecycle from ISA18.2 and IEC62682 will be introduced and the parts of the lifecycle will be covered. These activities include the alarm philosophy development, alarm rationalization, basic alarm design, advanced alarm techniques, HMI design for alarms, monitoring, assessment, management of change, and audit. We will discuss the entry points to the lifecycle for starting alarm management improvement projects.

Finally, we will discuss key alarm management references for you to utilize in your alarm management improvement projects.

Participants will learn about the standards for alarm management and the lifecycle and how they address the common problems of alarm systems.

Key benefits of this course include:

- Learning about the alarm management standards and how standard impact you

- Learning the requirements of the standards on the Management of Alarm Systems

- Learning the alarm management lifecycle

- Learning about the common alarm management problems

- Learning the best practices to improve the alarm system performance

- Learning the metrics to measure success in alarm management