As part of SCIC’s continuing efforts to further support our members in their Safety Case implementation, a series of Safety Case trainings has been developed to equip MHI key personnel with the knowledge and skills to support their preparations on the Safety Case regime implementation in respective companies. For more information on the workshops, please visit SCIC.
Safety Case trainings for different levels of knowledge:
Introductory
It aims to equip Safety Case Leads and key personnel in MHIs to plan, define implementation resource and prepare Safety Cases for their company.
Targeted audience - Designated Safety Case Leads in MHIs and key personnel who has been appointed to prepare, implement and operationalise Safety Cases.
Practitioners
Targeted audience - Designated Safety Case Leads in MHIs and key personnel who have been appointed to coordinate, prepare, implement and operationalise Safety Cases as well as any other personnel involved in implementing Safety Cases.
Highlights
Appointed trainers from Zento Global Limited have extensive experience in developing Safety Case.
Case studies, assignments and group discussions was incorporated to enhance understanding of technical requirements in writing Safety Cases.
Material was reviewed by SCIC members of the Government-Industry JWG, involved in the development of the Safety Case Technical and Assessment Guide.
SCIC is listed by MOM as one of the recognised training providers for the Safety Case Practitioners Course.
Material fulfils the requirements in the Curriculum Development Advisory (CDA) publishing by MOM.
Any feedback discussion from the workshops would be collated and provided as inputs for further discussion at the MHI Strategic Committee.
Specialists
Safety Case Specialists Workshop - a series of 1-day specialist courses on the key elements of the Safety Case regime to provide in-depth training in specific technical fields.
Targeted audience - Designated Safety Case Leads in MHIs and key personnel who have been appointed to coordinate, prepare, implement and operationalise Safety Cases and will be involved in specific technical aspects of Safety Case.
Functional Safety is one of the key elements that requires Major Hazard Installations (MHIs) to consider in their safety case as part of the electrical, control and instrumentation (E, C & I) technical aspects. Participants who attended were taught the following:
- The applicable functional safety standards and their relevance to the safety case;
- The functional safety lifecycle and its application to the MHI; and
- Reduction of risk through Safety Instrumented Systems.
Human Factors is one element that requires MHIs to demonstrate that the risk assessments carried out to aid decision-making on the measures are necessary to prevent major accidents or to mitigate their consequence, including appropriate consideration of human factors. Participants who had attended were taught on the following:
ALARP Demonstration is one final aspect of Safety care in which MHIs are required to demonstrate that risks are reduced to ALARP (as low as reasonably practical). This is a new concept for Singapore and the training aims to help participants understand on how they can write an effective ALARP demonstration, build on industry competency in demonstrating ALARP for Safety Case and improve the decision-making principles among MHIs to select the appropriate level of risk control measures proportionate to the level of risk.
Bow-tie Analysis is an element which requires MHI to show a link between measures taken and the safety critical events (SCE) through Safety case, including a description of the control measures and their links to the SCEs. Bow-tie Analysis is a technique that can be used to visually make these links. It is also used as a simple method to analyse and demonstrate the cause-and-effect relationship in Major Accident Scenarios. The training aims to build industry competency in using Bow-Ties for Safety Case and risk management and build capability in MHIs to utilise Bow-Ties to improve their internal process safety measures and barriers.