Course description
Hydrogen is an increasingly important element of the emerging green energy landscape. Its hazards are well known in the chemical and oil gas industries, but less so in the emerging new user communities. Unfortunately, Hydrogen has some chemical and physical properties which can lead and have led to incidents, which no one would like to repeat, and which could impact the public acceptance of Hydrogen technologies.
This unique training course presents and analyzes examples of process safety incidents with hydrogen. In most cases the incidents are explosions, but also fires. The cases include chemical industry, refinery, hydrogen fuel stations and logistics. The takeaway for the participants is a thorough understanding of hydrogen related incident causes, demonstrated by the incident examples. Suitable methods of incident investigation are discussed and explored in case studies with course participants, using real incidents as examples.
The investigations include root cause methodologies such as ABS, tap root, which are useful for large companies to use cause statistics and to find systemic weaknesses. The course also covers proven methods used by experienced companies to investigate incidents, which typically include establishing an event timeline, collection of circumstantial evidence from witnesses, followed by exploration of causes in cause trees or cause mapping. Participants pick up these methods in a ‘learning by doing’ approach.
