Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Training Course

Course overview

Safety engineering asks a specific question: how does this system fail, how likely is each failure path, what would the consequence be, and what protection is proportionate. The answers are built with structured methods rather than judgment, which is what makes them defensible to a regulator and useful to a designer.

This course covers safety engineering and risk analysis across seven units: the foundations, hazard identification, risk assessment, failure analysis, standards and compliance, mitigation and control, and future trends. It is educational and does not certify participants or satisfy any statutory competence requirement.

Why quantification is worth the effort

Because it forces the argument into the open. A qualitative judgment that a risk is "acceptable" cannot be examined. A quantified estimate exposes the assumptions: the failure rate assumed for a component, the reliability credited to a protection layer, the probability that an operator responds correctly under stress.

The numbers are never precise and the course is honest about that. Their value is that they can be challenged, and the challenge is where the real safety analysis happens.

What you will be able to do afterwards

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify hazards using system-appropriate techniques.
• Construct and interpret fault trees and event trees.
• Apply FMEA using severity, occurrence and detection ratings.
• Quantify risk using frequency and consequence estimation.
• Assess functional safety standards and integrity levels.
• Design layered protection with realistic reliability estimates.

Course outline

Unit 1: Introduction to safety engineering

• Safety engineering vs occupational safety.
• Hazard, consequence and ALARP concepts.
• Inherent safety through hazard elimination.
• Engineering failure case studies.

Unit 2: Hazard identification techniques

• Hazard and operability study review.
• What-if analysis and preliminary hazard analysis.
• Bow-tie analysis of threats and barriers.
• Human factors and design-induced error modes.

Unit 3: Risk assessment and analysis

• Risk matrix limitations and false precision.
• Quantified risk assessment and frequency estimation.
• Individual vs societal risk tolerability criteria.
• Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis reporting.

Unit 4: Failure analysis methods

• Fault tree analysis and minimal cut sets.
• Event tree analysis and protection layers.
• Failure mode and effects analysis scoring.
• Redundancy and common cause failure.

Unit 5: Safety standards and compliance

• Functional safety and safety integrity levels.
• ISO 45001 and process safety management.
• Regulatory duties and safety case evidence.
• Verification and validation of safety-critical systems.

Unit 6: Risk mitigation and control strategies

• Hierarchy of controls in engineering design.
• Layers of protection analysis and independence.
• Barrier management and critical barrier integrity.
• Management of change and safety analysis.

Unit 7: Future trends in safety and risk engineering

• Digital twins and simulation-based analysis.
• Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance.
• Automation and the human role.
• Cyber-physical exposure of safety systems.

How the course is delivered

The course works from real studies: fault trees, bow-ties, failure mode studies and published accident investigations. Participants build and challenge each study in guided worked examples and argue the assumptions in discussion. There is no plant or software environment. The course is educational and does not certify participants or satisfy any statutory competence requirement. Participants who want the organizational and management dimension should look at Mitigating Risks in High-Risk Industries.

Who should attend

• Safety, process and reliability engineers.
• Design and project engineers on hazardous facilities.
• Risk analysts and technical safety specialists.
• Operations and maintenance managers responsible for barrier integrity.

About EuroQuest International Training

EuroQuest International Training was founded in 2015 by a team with more than 25 years of experience in professional development. We run over 1,000 courses and have trained more than 15,000 participants. Our head office is in Bratislava, Slovakia, with hubs in Dubai, London, Barcelona, Istanbul, Vienna, Paris and Geneva. Courses are written and reviewed by practitioners from the fields they cover.

Frequently asked questions

How mathematical is the course?

Fault trees, event trees and quantified assessment involve arithmetic, worked through step by step. No advanced mathematics is assumed, and the emphasis is on the assumptions behind the numbers.

Is this a functional safety certification?

No. Functional safety competence certification is issued by recognized bodies. This course is educational and does not certify participants.

Does the course include a live lab?

No. There is no plant or software environment. Each study is built and challenged through documented case material and worked examples.

Related courses

• Operational Risk Management in Large Enterprises
• Business Risk Assessment and Management Frameworks
• Internal Controls and Risk Mitigation Strategies
• Risk Management in Complex Projects

Register for this course

Select a city and date from the schedule above to register, or contact EuroQuest about in-house delivery for an engineering or safety team.