D07 – Safety in Offshore Engineering
A graduate-level course structure reconstructed strictly from source materials, covering safety engineering, risk assessment, and hazard management for offshore structures and operations. The outline mirrors the attached documents and stays within their documented scope.
£299.00
2 hours 18 minutes
Focused, self-paced learning designed to fit around professional schedules.
Online, self-paced
Study online at a pace that fits your schedule.
4 sections
Structured curriculum sections.
English
Language of instruction for this course.
46 lessons
Focused lessons organised into a clear learning path.
Course overview
A graduate-level course structure reconstructed strictly from source materials, covering safety engineering, risk assessment, and hazard management for offshore structures and operations. The outline mirrors the attached documents and stays within their documented scope.
What you will learn
Explain why offshore engineering is a safety-critical discipline by relating historical accidents, project life-cycle phases, and stakeholder pressures to modern safety practice.
Interpret the international, European, and Dutch regulatory framework governing offshore safety, including the Safety Case and the role of regulators.
Apply human-factors and safety-culture models to analyze how organisational conditions, perception biases, and error patterns contribute to major accidents.
Evaluate offshore risks using expectation-value reasoning, QRA metrics, HEMP, and ALARP decision-making.
Compare barrier-based safety strategies and risk-reduction options for offshore facilities using documented design and operational examples.
Extract practical lessons from offshore case studies to support defensible safety decisions in engineering practice.
Skills and knowledge
Offshore safety
Safety engineering
Risk assessment
Hazard management
Safety case
Human factors
QRA
ALARP
Course curriculum
Introduction and Foundations of Offshore Safety
1.1 Why a Dedicated Course on Safety?
1.2 What Is “Safety”? Working Definitions
1.3 Why Is Offshore Engineering Safety-Critical?
1.4 A Short History of Offshore Oil & Gas and Its Safety Record
1.5 Offshore Operating Context
1.6 The Project Life Cycle
1.7 Challenges, Past and Future
1.8 Course Roadmap (as Originally Taught)
1.9 Quiz - Module 01
Regulatory and Legal Framework
2.1 Why Regulation Matters to Engineers
2.2 The International Layer
2.3 United Nations Conventions
2.4 International Maritime Organization
2.5 The European Layer
2.6 “Hardware” - Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
2.7 “Software” - Working Conditions Law
2.8 Dutch National Regulation and the Safety Case
2.9 State Supervision of Mines (SodM): Structure and Powers
2.10 The Bow-Tie Model as Regulatory Philosophy
2.11 International Regulatory Cooperation
2.12 Case Study: NAM Warffum
2.13 Quiz - Module 02
Human Factors and Safety Culture
3.1 Three Misconceptions About Safety Management
3.2 Personal Safety vs. Process/Operational Safety
3.3 Risk Perception vs. Actual Risk
3.4 The Rasmussen Skill-Rule-Knowledge (SRK) Model
3.5 Human Error Taxonomy
3.6 The Hazard-Barrier-Target and Swiss Cheese Models
3.7 Safety Culture: The Maturity Ladder
3.8 Regulation, Expert Judgement, and Overconfidence
3.9 A Closing Synthesis
3.10 Quiz - Module 03
Risk Management, Quantitative Risk Assessment and ALARP
4.1 The Risk Management Cycle
4.2 Expectation Value and Why Humans Are Bad at It
4.3 The “Black Swan”
4.4 Where Blame Gets Put vs. Where Learning Lies
4.5 The ALARP Principle
4.6 The “Borrowed Car” Illustration of ALARP Decision-Making
4.7 Strategies for Demonstrating Safety
4.8 Case Study: Process Fire on an FPSO Accommodation Module
4.9 Risk Acceptance Criteria and the Safety Studies Suite
4.10 HEMP: Hazard and Effect Management Process
4.11 Risk Metrics Used in Practice
4.12 The ALARP Region, Formally
4.13 Concluding Risk-Management Principles
4.14 Quiz - Module 04
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