STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      List types of equipment required to perform work placed testing and evaluation to ensure safe working conditions.

 II.     Describe equipment operations and appropriate uses common to refining, petrochemical, mining and mineral processing, food processing and other process industries

 III.    Explain pressure and temperature limits of hoses and fittings

 IV.     Discuss selection and sizing criteria as related to pressure, temperature, flow and corrosiveness of fluids

 V.      Describe the operating principles of instrumentation and controls.

 VI.     Describe the units of measure utilized in calibration and safe testing procedures.

 VII.    Describe the operating principles of monitoring and report preparation.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Safety

         A.      Campus

         B.      General rules

         C.      course processes

         D.      class/Lab Procedures

 II.     Monitoring Methods

         A.      direct reading instruments

         B.      laboratory analysis

         C.      Monitoring and maintenance activities

         D.      biological monitoring

 III.    Safety Control Instrumentation

         A.      Major types of instrumentation

         B.      Variables monitored by instrumentation

         C.      Applications and functions with Safety Equipment

         D.      Monitoring and maintenance activities

 IV.     workplace measurements

         A.      need for measurement

         B.      reproducibility-validity

         C.      units of measurement

         D.      Sensor measurement

         E.      Indicators

         F.      Controllers

         G.      Recorders

         H.      operation of instruments

         I.      routine maintenance, troubleshooting and calibration

 V.      computer analysis, monitoring and report preparation

         A.      Time savings and evaluations

         B.      Cautions

 VI.     analysis and presentation of data

         A.      need for analyzing and presenting data

         B.      causes of variation in results

         C.      measures of central tendency

 VII.    recordkeeping

         A.      need for records

         B.      reporting results

         C.      typical reporting documents

         D.      legal notifications

         E.      worker notification

         F.      legal requirements

 VIII.   administrative issues

         A.      equipment certification and calibration

         B.      operation/inspector training and certification