About
If you are a manager or are responsible for safety in a work environment that is dealing with flammable materials, you must take special precautions to avoid fire or explosion.
We all know that people are an organisation’s most valuable asset and nothing is more important than their safety. Therefore the constantly evolving mountain of legislation and approved codes of practice that govern the health and safety of employees comes as no surprise. So where do you fit in?
Safely Managing Fire and Explosion Hazards is a brand new seminar that has been designed to provide you with an introduction to the legal minefield and safety considerations when managing hazardous work areas. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get an update on the legal requirements your organisation faces, while at the same time improving your identification and management skills of hazardous areas.
Who should attend?
This information intensive two day programme is a great introduction to the legal requirements and best practice approaches in managing hazardous areas.
In particular, if you are managing or responsible for the safety of a work area that includes flammable materials, this seminar will give you a good understanding of how to deal with fire and explosion hazards.
• Manufacturing - Production Managers
• Wholesale/retail - Store Managers
• Construction - Project Managers
• For all groups - Safety Managers & HR Managers
This seminar is applicable to you if you are involved with:
• Fuels
- natural gas
- petrol
• Metallic powders
- aluminium
- magnesium
• Dusts
- milk powder, starch, sugar, custard powder
- grain
- wood powder
• Fibres & Flyings
- wool processing
- synthetic clothing
• Other substances
- solvents
- anaesthetics
- alcohol
- hydrogen from battery charging
- methane (sewage works, waste treatment)
Key learning objectives
• What must managers do to meet their legal responsibilities?
• Occupational Safety and Health Act
• Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act
• Electricity Act
• Identify hazards
- know the properties of materials being handled
- information needs to be available to people affected
- the main tool is “area classification”
- identifies likelihood of a flammable atmosphere in terms of zones
• Minimise likelihood of harm
- control materials
- control ignition sources
- use suitable methods of protection
- correct maintenance procedures
- ensure safe working practices are followed
• Ensure workers are competent
• Show that all this has been done in accordance with required practices
- documentation
Outline
Legal requirements
• Health & Safety in Employment Act
• Hazardous Substances & New Organisms Act
• Electricity Act
• Standards and Codes of Practice
Small group exercise - legal requirements
Identifying explosion or fire hazards
• Ignition characteristics of materials
• Gases and vapours
• Liquids
• Dusts and powders
• Ignition sources
• Temperature Classification
Area classification
• Zone definitions
• Determining zone extents
• “Specific occupancies” or classification by example
• Methods of classifying individual sites
• Classification for dust and powder hazards
Case study: Hazard identification and classification
Day Two
Hazard management
• Elimination
• Isolation
• Control of ignition sources
• Explosion protection concepts
• Explosion-protected electrical equipment
• Flameproof; increased safety; intrinsic safety; non-sparking apparatus; protection by enclosure; pressurisation, purging and ventilation
• Selection of equipment
• Equipment certification
• AusEx, IECEx, ATEX schemes
• Competency of workers
• Documentation – the dossier
Design and construction
• Feasibility study and safety case
• Concept design
• Detailed design
• Equipment selection
• Specification, purchase and receiving
• Installation issues
Maintenance and modification
• Permit to work systems
• Small group exercise – develop work permits for work on flammable atmospheres
• Safe working practices
• Use of gas detectors
• Repair
• Control of modifications
• Inspection requirements
Case study: Safe work procedures
Facilitator
Bruce Durdle
• Chartered Professional Engineer specialising in industrial electrical and instrumentation systems
• More than 20 years experience working with electrical installations in flammable atmospheres
• 7 years as the electrical engineer responsible for systems on a methanol plant
• 4 years with a UK consulting firm working on cogeneration design and construction
• 10 years independent contractor/consultant - projects include:
– Butane storage facility
– Petrochemical blending installation
– Evaluation of safety integrity of monitoring and control on LPG pipeline
– Area classification of several installations including transformer paint shop and board painting lines.
• Instructor on a range of electrical engineering courses at NZCE, National Diploma and National Certificate level
• Prepared and presented a number of courses for the hazardous areas competency unit standards
• Prepared and presented courses on measurement & control system project management and control systems safety integrity assessment
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