Why is this course unique?
LOP (layer of protections) prevent errors from propagating into events. These LOPs could be in forms of behavior standards, procedures, checks, review, etc. At a typical company, LOPs are not managed. They are usually not adequately designed, their effectiveness are the adequately monitored, they are not constantly improved. For example, review is a critical LOP, but it is not managed in most companies. This course teach students what are LOPs and how to design, test, monitor, and maintain LOPs so that could effectively prevent events.
Benefits of this course:
This course could significantly and instantly reduce event rates at a company. This course is a part of predictive and preventive quality strategy. The performance of LOPs are predicted after design. With prediction, the weak areas can be monitored and improved right away. Also, through long term maintenance, the performance of LOPs would not degrade such as due to staff turn-over, problematic revisions with burdens, etc.
Topics covered in this course:
- Introduction LOP
- Design of LOP
- Prediction of Effectiveness of LOP
- Testing of LOP Effectiveness
- Performance Monitoring of LOPs
- Maintenance of LOPs