Alarm Management System

Instructor by: Tugino, ST., MT 13 – 15 Mei 2014, Golden Flower Hotel, Bandung DESCRIPTION This three day Alarm Management training course has been designed to provide operators with a practical knowledge of how to manage alarm systems to reduce legislative risk, deliver cost savings and improve operational benefits. In this highly interactive course, delegates receive guidance a range of skills including alarm specification & design, identifying problems and drive operatonal benefits such as higher OEE, improved maintenance and tighter product quality. Delegates gain valuable practical experience learning from case studies and completing practical exercises. This course meets the requirements of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). On completion of this course, delegates will benefit from the following expected learning Outcomes:

1. Understand why your alarm system should be managed
2. Identify and evaluate the associated benefits
3. Better understand the value and role of alarms
4. Develop an alarm philosophy and design and implement an alarm schedule/ database
5. Apply requirements and good practice to the identification, specification and design of new alarms
6. Have an understanding of the need and benefits of performance measurement and what tools are available
7. Have an understanding of the continuous improvement cycle for alarm management
8. Identify nuisance alarms and assemble a toolkit that helps reduce them
9. Understand the process, inputs and deliverables from an effective alarm rationalisation exercise

Who should attend?

• This Alarm Management training course has been designed for all those responsible for the operation, management and maintenance of alarm systems.

OUTLINE 1. Introduction

• How the HSE expects alarm systems to be managed
• Alarm System Management Policy
• Safety Case

2. Core principles of Alarm System Management

• Philosophy of Alarm System Management

3. Alarm System Design Overview

• Human Factors
• Structuring and Partitioning of Alarms
• Limits on claims for Safety Integrity Level (SIL)

4. Design Process

• Where do alarms come from?
• Safety, environmental or economic alarms
• Qualitative risk assessment
• Choice of alarm priorities
• Alarm settings

5. Procurement of alarm systems

• Investment appraisal
• Cost of poor alarms performance
• Specifications to ensure usability

6. Measuring performance

• Syndicate exercises and Surveys
• Performance metrics
• Audits and reviews

7. Managing an improvement programme

• Dealing with unwanted alarms
• Logical processing of alarms
• Repeating and fleeting alarms

8. HAZOP and Alarms

• Alarms in context
• Preparations and Boundaries
• Operator Interface
• Alarm Suppression Hazard Study

9. The alarm management lifecycle; requirements, recommendations and good practice for alarm identification, specification, design and implementation. Including human factors and HMI design. 10. Alarm system documentation ; alarm philosophy, alarm system requirements specification and master alarm database. 11. Setting of performance targets 12. Managing your alarm system for continuous improvement ; the role of performance measurement, monitoring and review. 13. Alarm monitoring and logging tools. 14. Alarm analysis techniques 15. Advanced alarm management, tools and techniques, risk / benefit considerations 16. Drivers and benefits for prospective and retrospective alarm rationalisation TRAINING METHOD

• Presentation
• Discussion
• Case Study
• Evaluation

FACILITY

• Training Kit
• Handout
• Certificate
• Lunch + 2 X Coffee Break
• Souvenir