The environmental consequences of rapid industrialization have resulted in countless incidents of land, air and water resources sites being contaminated with toxic materials and other pollutants, threatening humans and ecosystems with serious health risks. More extensive and intensive use of materials and energy has created cumulative pressures on the quality of local, regional and global ecosystems. The program is to provide an orientation to the methods that are applied to control and prevent environmental pollution.

The basic principles followed for eliminating negative impacts on the quality of water, air or land will be introduced and application of methods and technologies to reduce the effects of pollution  and to minimize negative effects and ensure that environmental quality standards are achieved.

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Understand and apply the principles of Risk Assessment and Risk Management to Environmental Operations
• Perform Risk Assessment and evaluate the consequences plant operations on the environment
• Understand and implement changes to make the plant environment and surrounding better

This course is intended for managers, engineers, safety professionals, environmental professionals, and all supervisory personnel and managers who may have responsibilities for accounting, and process industries, and the responsibility for plant operations.

Day 1:

·         Introduction

·         Pre Test

·         What is Industrial Pollution?

·         Chemicals and the Environment

·         Types of Contamination with examples

o   Vulnerability of personnel, buildings and equipment

o   Types of Risk, People, Assets, Building, and Equipment

·         Some examples of disasters and their causes

·         Chernobyl, Bhopal, Texas City & Others

·         Consequences of Fire and Explosions

·         Developing the Hazard Case

Day 2:

Types of Treatments

·         Biological Treatment

o   Activated Sludge, Trickling Filter, SBR and other treatment systems

o   Clarifers and how they work

o   The consequences of poor Pollution Control

o   Removals of Phosphorous and Nitrogen

o   Estuary and Water Quality Standards

·         Air Quality Standards & Pollution Control

o   Fundamentals of Air Pollution

o   Air Quality Effects and Standards

o   Gas Treatments

o   Solids Treatment

o   Volatiles Treatment

·         Solid and Hazardous Wastes

o   US, UK, & EU Hazardous Wastes regulations

o   Consequences of handling

o   Shipment of Wastes

o   Non-Hazardous Wastes

o   Treatment for Various Waste Types

·         Groundwater and Protection

o   Groundwater fundamentals

o   Treatment and handling

Day 3:

·         Spill Control

o   Transportation Related

o   In-plant control

o   Cleanup Requirements

·         Safety and Prevention of Spills

o   Requirements for Emergency Response

o   Personal Protective Equipment

o   Incident Command System and Setting up a response

·         Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) detailed methodology and lists for Pollution Control

o   Requirements of the PHA

o   Incident Investigation and Emergency Planning and Response

o   The EU Approach to PSM

·         EU Approach to Pollution Control

Day 4:

·         EU Pollution Control Standards

o   How to comply with EU Standards

·         Plant Auditing Methods of Analysis - with several examples

o   What IF Analysis

o   Checklist Analysis

·         ISO 14001 and its implementation

o   Performing a deficiency analysis

o   Getting Registered

o   Developing the Management Plan

·         FMEA What it is and how it works, and how to conduct and FMEA in detail

·         Putting numbers on the evaluation of risk

o   Fault Tree Analysis – a primer on how to conduct an FTA or Event Tree Analysis

o   Fishbone (Ishikawa) Analysis

o   Root Cause Analysis

o   Bowtie Analysis

o   Weibull and Markov Chains

Day 5:

·         Evaluating the Consequences – or what could happen and how bad will it be?

o   Consequence Analysis:  Community Involvements

o   Cameo Suite & Wiser 

o   The Colored Books

·         How to Present & evaluate the consequences

·         Types of Presentations

·         Costing and Cost Presentations for Risk analysis

Group Exercises

Final Test

Presentation of Certificates

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

·         Discussion

·         Presentation

To be advised as per the course location. This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Recess (Coffee/Tea/Snacks)

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Recess (Prayer Break & Lunch)

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session