To provide an understanding of the principles of accident causation and prevention in the workplace. To familiarise the student with the main process safety hazards and the typical process safety hazard analysis techniques used in the process industries.

Principles of accident causation and prevention; Personal safety versus process safety; Hazard system (sources, receptors, transmission paths); Basic accident causation theories: domino model, ILCI model, multiple causation theory; Classification of human error: active failures versus latent failures, strategies for reducing human error; Human / hard / system errors; Swiss cheese model; Aspects of safety culture and safety climate in companies (Bradley Curve, Evolutionary Culture Ladder), human factors, behavioural based safety (BBS); Flammability (FP/LEL/UEL/MIE/ignition sources), BLEVEs; Static; Dust explosions; ATEX; Unsafe chemicals & chemical incompatibilities; Thermal safety / runaway reactions; Principles of inherently safer design; Hazard analysis / risk assessment techniques - HAZOP, FTA, LOPA, SIL, Process Hazard Analysis; Permit-to-Work Systems, LOTO, Confined Spaces; the UK HSE's model for process safety management. The following UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) are relevant to this module: SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth, and SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure.

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: 1. Describe the general principles of accident causation as applied to the process industries; 2. Analyse process safety accident case studies by applying the general principles of accident causation; 3. Illustrate the significance of human factors and safety culture in accident causation; 4. Categorise the key aspects associated with the concept of inherently safer design; 5. Describe the main process safety hazards present in the process industries; 6. Describe hazard analysis techniques commonly used in the process industries, and assess process activities via HAZOP and FTA; 7. Articulate a model for process safety management relevant to the process industries.

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to recognise and value the need to identify, risk assess and control process hazards with the aim of preventing workplace accidents and injury.

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This module will be taught during the semester via a formal interactive lecturing and tutorial mode. Where appropriate, syllabus topics are complemented by up-to-date developments in process safety provided in current reports and bulletins published by, for example, the US Chemical Safety Board, the Center for Chemical Process Safety, and the Institution of Chemical Engineers. The interactive nature of the module's delivery mode (including YouTube animation videos of process safety case studies, and 'live' chemistry demonstrations) stimulates students' curiosity and enhances their broader knowledge of practical process safety issues. The module's syllabus has been designed to raise students' awareness of their personal, professional and social responsibility and the importance of resilience and collaboration when managing process safety. The interactive nature of lectures offers students the opportunity to develop their communication/articulation skills.