Achieving ALARP Training Course

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A Practical Guide to Risk Management and Justification

This is a 1-day course intended to help delegates to understand the concept of ALARP (“As Low as is Reasonably Practicable”), and how to use it in risk management, decision making and ALARP demonstration.

Following completion, delegates will be able to apply the ALARP concept in real-life scenarios, using it to make and justify decisions on which risk reduction measures to implement.

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to ALARP

• What is ALARP?
• Origin and Legal Context (UK HSE and International Relevance).
• Balancing Risk vs the Cost, Time and Trouble to Reduce it.
• The Concept of Gross Disproportion.

Module 2: The ALARP Principle in Risk Management

• Risk Assessment Basics and the Hierarchy of Controls.
• The Importance of Inherently Safer Design.
• ALARP and the “Tolerability of Risk” (ToR) Triangle.
• The Three Regions: Intolerable, Tolerable if ALARP and Broadly Acceptable.
• Relevant Good Practice (RGP).
• The Key ALARP Questions.
• The ALARP Toolkit
• Exercise 1 - ALARP in Everyday Life

Module 3: Applying ALARP in Practice

• Steps in Demonstrating ALARP.
• Constructing a Well-Reasoned Argument.
• What Regulators Want to See.
• Exercise 2 – Constructing a Well-Reasoned Argument.

Module 4: Cost-Benefit Analysis

• Introduction to CBA.
• Benefits.
• Costs.
• Gross Disproportion Factors.
• Exercise 3 – Cost-Benefit Analysis.
• Discounting.
• “Maximum Justifiable Spend”.
• Derivation of LOPA Risk Targets.

Module 5: Practical Aspects of ALARP

• Applying ALARP at Older Facilities.
• “Reverse ALARP”
• Short Plant Life and Temporary Operation.
• A Systems Thinking Approach to ALARP.
• Sensitivity Analysis.
• ALARP Reporting.

Conclusion

Who should attend

Process safety, health & safety and functional safety professionals who wish to understand ALARP and correctly apply it in real life situations.

Pre-qualification

This workshop assumes no-prior knowledge of ALARP. However, it is recommended that delegates have some prior experience of carrying out risk assessments or HazOp studies.

After this course you will be able to:

• Correctly apply the concept of ALARP when carrying out risk assessments.
• Use ALARP decision-making techniques including qualitative assessment and quantitative cost-benefit analysis.
• Use cost-benefit analysis to evaluate whether risks have been reduced to ALARP levels.
• Know what to do if the cost-benefit calculation either passes or fails.

What you will get

• The course material in printed format.
• A certificate of attendance for each delegate that attends the full course. (8 hours of CPD).

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