We invite you to attend a unique, two-day "how-to" seminar taught by the person who wrote the book on risk-informed fire protection engineering, with over 26 years experience in fire risk quantification.

Benefit your Company, your Clients. and your Career, by attending this educational seminar and by adding another "tool" to your fire protection solution toolbox.  The seminar and agenda are summarized below,

Overview:  Risk-Informed fire protection evaluation is a risk-based decision support tool that evaluates fire and explosion consequence likelihood and includes an analysis of fire protection systems performance reliability. 

The use of an integrated or layered fire safety design approach (fire prevention, detection, passive & active protection levels, and emergency response) within a risk-informed framework provides both a balanced and quantitative method for addressing complex fire and explosion issues. It delivers supplemental decision-support information and alternatives which allows engineers, risk managers, and regulators the capability to make cost-effective decisions based on the unique fire risk factors associated with a specific facility or process.    

Emphasis in this training seminar course is given to the fire risk-informed evaluation method termed fire protection system - layer of protection analysis (FPS-LOPA) which is becoming a popular tool in the Chemical, Oil, Gas, Nuclear Fuel Processing, and various High-Tech industries. FPS-LOPA provides a rational, objective, and simplified risk-based approach for decision-making on the fire protection layers (or defense-in-depth strategy) needed for specific scenarios to meet established risk tolerance criteria. 

This seminar course describes, with examples, the steps involved in performing an FPS-LOPA risk-informed evaluation, which include: 

• Developing Accident Scenarios
• Determining Initiating Fire Event Likelihood (events/year)
• Quantifying the Performance of Independent Fire Protection Layers
• Evaluating Target Vulnerability
• Estimating Scenario Risk 
• Conducting Risk Tolerance Comparison
• Making Decisions on Risk Reduction
• Monitoring the Risk

Discussion and examination is given to quantifying initiating fire event likelihood’s and fire protection system performance reliability, following the methods in the book, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Industrial Fire Protection written by Thomas F. Barry, P.E., who will be instructing this seminar.

AGENDA

The two-day seminar course is broken down into five training modules,   which includes  over 200 slides and 15 class-exercise problems. The general two day agenda follows: 

Day 1 Agenda 

• Module 1 – Introduction to Risk-Informed Evaluation
                      Risk Calculation, Terms; Decision Levels vs. Risk-
                      Assessment Approaches; Scenario Risk vs. Facility
                      Risk, Scenario Selection.        
                     
• Module 2 -  FPS-LOPA (Fire Protection System-Layer of Protection Analysis)     Advantages of this method as a first-order approach.
                     Correlation with Event Tree Analysis. Description of Steps.
                     Risk Communication.
   
• Module 3 – Initiating Fire Event Likelihood
                      Equipment Failure rate data sources, data modification.
                      Categorizing ignition likelihood.  Human error probability.
                      Integrating Engineering Judgment.
                     

  Day 2 Agenda 

• Module 4 – Fire Protection System (FPS) Performance Reliability
                      Performance Reliability vs. Operational reliability.
                      Developing performance specifications and quantifying  the
                      three Calculation factors - Design Effectiveness, On-Line
                      Availability, Operational Reliability. 
   
• Module 5 – FPS-LOPA Risk Assessment Application
                       Evaluation of other FPS-LOPA scenario risk
                       calculation variables, including Enabling Events & Target
                       Vulnerability to estimate Consequence LIKELIHOOD.
                       Comparison with Risk Tolerance criteria.
                       Evaluating Risk Reduction options. Communicating results
                       to Decision Makers.  Risk Monitoring controls.

HOURS for Day 1 and Day 2:

Start:  8:00 AM 

Mid-Morning 10 Minute Break 

Noon-Time 40 minute Lunch 

Mid-Afternoon 10 Minute Break 

Adjourn: 4:30 PM 

Instruction Time:  7.5 hours per day

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS (PDH)

PDH:  15 hrs.   Seminar Completion Certificates indicating awarded PDHs will be provided by Fire Risk Forum for each attendee.  
 

Seminar Course Hand-Out Materials includes: 

Ø   Notebook Binder containing a copy of all presentation slides, all class-exercise problems, and all associated slide -handouts.

Ø   Fire Risk Forum's publication on FPS-LOPA (this document  describes the steps with references & examples of Fire Protection System - Layer of Protection Analysis).

Ø    Book; Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Industrial Fire Protection Engineering, by Thomas F. Barry, P.E.

      This is Fire Risk Forum's flag-ship book.  Seminar attendees
are encouraged to read Chapter 1.0 of this book prior to the Seminar. Chapter 1.0 can be accessed at Book Excerpts.

Public Seminars

Fire Risk Forum will be holding two public seminars in 2007. For seminar schedule and registration information, Click-Below:

Contract Seminars

Fire Risk Forum’s Seminar Training Courses can be coordinated, contracted, and conducted in partnership with Hosts. Hosts generally include Associations with Fire Protection interests such as SFPE or AIChE Local Chapters, Organizations, Companies, and Government Agencies with interest in fire and explosion quantitative risk assessment methods and applications.  

For local professional chapters with fire safety interests, such as local SFPE or AIChE chapters, there can be a two-fold benefit in hosting an FRF training seminar.  One is providing a one-of-a kind training course on a special-interest topic, Risk-Informed Fire Protection Methods, for Chapter members and invited guests. The second benefit is that arrangements can be made between FRF and the Local Chapter for a % of the seminar proceeds to be donated-back to the Local Chapter to help fund future Chapter activities. 

Local or On-site training courses can save everyone time and money.  Fire Risk Forum training seminars can be hosted at a location of your choice at your convenience.

If you are interested in HOSTING a Fire Risk Forum (FRF) Seminar Course, please contact us at; seminars@fireriskforum.com

Fire Risk Forum’s seminar course fee is usually based on a per-student cost. For large groups, a fixed price fee can be developed. Seminar fees are used to support the continuing education efforts of Fire Risk Forum in the area of Risk-Informed Fire Protection Engineering.

 Instructor Profile

Thomas Barry, P.E., Director of Fire Risk Forum, has over 27 years experience as an Industrial Fire Protection Engineer and Fire & Explosion Risk Analyst. He has performed numerous quantitative fire and explosion risk assessments and fire protection system reliability analysis for a wide variety of industrial hazards, including Fossil-Fuel Power Plants, Chemical Processing Plants, Oil Refineries, Oil Terminals, High-Tech Pilot Plants, LPG Bulk Storage, and Nuclear Fuel Processing.  Over the last four years he has conducted over 38 Risk-Informed projects using FPS-LOPA (Fire Protection System-Layer of Protection Analysis) methods for hydrogen gas hazards, nuclear fuel processes, chemical processes, high-hazard product production operations, hazardous waste storage, solvent extraction processes, bulk-chemical storage,  special-atmosphere furnaces, and for OSHA PSM and Performance-Based Fire Protection equivalencies.

Thomas Barry has written many articles on fire and explosion risk assessment, has conducted seminars on Fire Dynamics, Fire Modeling, and Fire Risk Assessment, and is author of the book, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Industrial Fire Protection, with books sold in 37 countries.

Tom's Undergraduate degree is in Industrial  Engineering, with a Masters Degree in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester  Massachusetts. He is a registered professional engineer in multi-states and is a member of NFPA, SFPE, and AIChE.

Contact Info:

Thomas Barry, P.E.
Director, Fire Risk Forum
Knoxville, Tennessee USA
Phone/FAX:  865-691-5724
email:  tfbarry@fireriskforum.com

May 2007 Seminar - Nashville, TN

The May 2007 Seminar in Nashville was attended by:
  Corporate Loss Control Manager
   Process Safety Engineers
   HAZOP/LOPA Specialists
   Fire Protection Consultants
   Fire Protection Program Manager
   Industrial Fire Protection Engineers

Industries represented, included:
   Chemical
   Oil
   Gas
   Fossil Fuel Power
   Nuclear Power
   Pharmaceutical
   Engineering/Consulting

Comments extracted from Comment Sheets, include:
   Great information
   Very knowledgeable instructor
   Excellent introduction to fire risk insights
   Very good handouts and references provided
   Good progression of seminar modules
   All questions were well-addressed