Dam Risk Assessment (May 2017) MODULES 1-13 – Full Course

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Module 1 – Welcome & Closure

ANCOLD Convenor, David Watson, Managing Director of Davwil Designs & Management Services

Module 2 – Risk Assessment for Dams – What’s it mean? What is risk? Role, Value & Importance

Shane McGrath, Director of SMG Consulting

• Framework – what it involves (incl. relationship to generic risk,
  dam safety & asset management, standards & tolerability)
• Extent in Australia and Overseas
• ANCOLD guidelines (incl. key current revision changes identified –
• Level of information subject to Shane)
• Other related approaches (incl. major hazard industries)
• Potential future issues

Module 3 – Planning for Risk Assessment

David Watson, Managing Director of Davwil Designs & Management Services

• Relationship to Regulator, Statutory Requirements, Duty of care & Due diligence (incl. aspects such as WH&S potential impacts)
• Relationship to Dam Owner’s Business Planning (incl. dam owner responsibility for dam safety)
• Approaches (incl. influence of Safety Case & WH&S requirements)
• Types/level (incl. individual & portfolio), team role & quality & technical control
• Governing criteria (principally tolerable risk – application & issues)
• Assessment/analysis components (refer ANCOLD Risk Guideline flow chart & brief summary of objective, process & relationships)

Module 4 – Risk Identification Component

Malcolm Barker, Principal Engineer Dams of GHD

• Identification and Assembly of all relevant data
• Hazard & Failure Modes identification
• Failure Modes development (incl. fault & event trees)
• Failure Modes analysis (incl. examples)

Module 5 – Probability Component Approach

Mark Foster , Technical Director – Dams of AECOM

• Identify Load States & Scenarios for failure modes (incl. different approaches and examples)
• Uncertainties

Module 6 – Probability Component (Continued)

Mark Foster , Technical Director – Dams of AECOM

• Key Issues Estimation of Likelihood of failure per failure mode (incl. examples)

Module 7 – Discussion & Close for Day 1

Module 8 – Day 2 – Welcome & Introductions & Brief Recap Day 1

Module 9 – Consequences Component

Peter Hill, Director of Hydrology and Risk Consulting (HARC)

• Approach Identify Failure Scenarios Dam Break & Inundation Mapping (incl. examples)

Module 10 – Consequence Component (Continued 2)

Peter Hill, Director of Hydrology and Risk Consulting (HARC)

• Approach Identify Failure Scenarios Dam Break & Inundation Mapping (incl. examples)

Module 11 – Consequence Component (Continued 3)

• Potential loss of life

Module 12 – Risk Reduction & Residual Risk Management

Robert Keogh, General Manager, Asset Strategy & Management for SunWater

• Reduction options & adequacy of reduction/remaining residual
• Risk reduction strategies (incl. staging, implementation and investment decision issues)
• Long term risk management (incl. risk assessment review)

Module 13 – Discussion & Close of Short Course