An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Case Studies for Learning
from Major Incidents
- Towards an Operational Excellence
Cases for Reliability, Maintenance and Operations Professionals
UPCOMING SESSIONS
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19-23 Jan 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 01-05 Jun 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 07-11 Sep 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 23-27 Nov 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
This Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents training course introduces a fresh approach to learning from major disasters and driving improvements in industry safety. It examines the underlying causes of disasters and outlines preventive measures. The course also bridges the gap between theory and practice in risk, safety, and reliability analysis. It incorporates analytical methods from equipment failure reliability analysis, multi-criteria decision-making, and artificial intelligence.
The training course is designed for professionals across various industries, including oil and gas, nuclear power, aviation, marine, and process sectors. It highlights notable case studies from these fields, offering numerous examples of modeling and decision analysis. Participants will also discover a set of universal lessons that can be applied to other industries, making the content relevant and valuable across sectors.
This training course will feature:
- Different approaches for learning from failures
- Aspects of risk management and risk assessment
- An interdisciplinary approach, combining risk analysis, reliability engineering, decision analysis and management science
- Socio technical aspects of risk and disasters
- Modelling and multiple criteria decision analysis
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understanding of safety, risk and continuity of operations
- Development of people management skills
- Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability
- How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing
- Applying decision analysis approaches
Designed for
This Case Studies for Learning from Major Incidents training course is highly recommended for all Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and Technical Support staff. Also, this training course is applicable to any person actively involved or contemplating safety, performance measurement, improvement and/or quality and reliability related activities. It will also benefit:
- General Managers and Chief Executives who are interested in Safety and Resilience.
- Senior Managers and Supervisors
- Operations & Process Professionals
- Reliability & Safety Professionals
- Other professionals involved in process improvement
- Maintenance Managers and Engineers
Learning Methods
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes tutor facilitation, direct input, delegate discussions, case studies, reviews, interactive exercises and video. Proposed models and case studies covered will be used in the teachings, and also draws on material from the research.
The Course Outline
- Safety first
- Learning from failures
- Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents
- Taxonomy of theories
- Nature of High Reliability Organisations (HRO)
- Risk assessment, Choice of case studies and types of recommendations
- Coping with risks, and defining reliability and resilience
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques
- Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Risk Priority Number (RPN) and Iso Critical Curves
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Blok Diagram (RBD), and Reliability Cantered Maintenance (RCM)
- Practical examples and case studies
- Hurricane Katrina Disaster (Natural Disasters and Evacuations)
- NASA’s Challenger Disaster (Space Industry)
- NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (Space Industry)
- Titanic – The Unsinkable ship that sank (Ships Industry)
- Exxon Valdez – Oil Spill Disaster
- Small Groups presentations
- Cases and generic lesson learned from Process industry: Bhopal Disaster (Petrochemical Industry in India)
- Case and generic lesson learned from Oil and Gas industry: Piper Alpha Disaster (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)
- BP Deep Water Horizon (Offshore Oil & Gas Industry)
- BP Texas City Incident (Chemical and Process Industry)
- Small Groups Presentations
- Generic Lessons
- Case and generic lesson learned from Nuclear industry: Chernobyl Disaster (Nuclear Industry)
- Fukushima Disaster (Nuclear Industry)
- Group work and group presentations
- Organizational Resilience and Learning from Failures and Success
- Action Plans
- Analysis and recommendations of Safety Barriers
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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