Summary
Understand and incorporate decommissioning principles into planning, operations, maintenance and risk management.
Decommissioning principles can be applied to new assets by proactively planning for their eventual retirement, including cost estimation, risk assessment, and environmental considerations.
The complexity of decommissioning varies, but the principles remain the same. For the engineers involved in forming the strategy for decommissioning, they need to know how they can use their knowledge to achieve a more efficient and responsible end-of-life management, potentially reducing costs and minimising environmental impact and risks.
• At what point can we consider something decommissioned?
• What government policies do we need to be aware of?
• How do we make sure we don’t cause a problem for future generations?
This course uses practical examples, case studies, and future modelling scenarios of industries to showcase good decommissioning practices and how engineers can implement these across different assets and at various lifecycle points.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for engineers who are working on assets that are expected to undergo decommissioning within their working lives, or who are trying to integrate decommissioning principles into new assets or maintenance practices.
The focus is on complex installations such as power plants and storage facilities, however the the principles and strategies can be applied across engineered products and assets.
How will I benefit?
• Grasp what a good decommissioning strategy should achieve, and the typical legislation and policies that affect practice.
• Showcase decommissioning, decontaminating, dismantling, and disposing practices
• Analyse how decommissioning affects the design and maintenance of engineering assets.
• Evaluate appropriate engineering intervention for use in decommissioning activities.
• Assess decommissioning strategies for given applications and suggest improvements.
• Create a personal plan to continuously incorporate the fundamentals of decommissioning into your assets and operations
Key topics
• Defining what decommissioning is, the impact it has on businesses and society, how the law and some incidents have formed how we think about it.
• Exemplars and best practice surrounding decontamination, dismantling and disposal across industries.
• How decommissioning fits into modern project thinking; how milestones, aims and goals should be crafted and measured in line with legislation, policies and organisational objectives.
• What role maintenance functions play in the decommissioning arena, and how do we adjust our thinking around maintenance outcomes and measures of success.
• What common types of NDE, NDT, assay, cleaning, decontamination, dismantling, and size reduction do you need to have in your tool kit to properly form a decommissioning strategy?
• Practical measures can you take in forming and influencing a decommissioning strategy in the context of your disciple and industry.
• How considering decommissioning effects our other work and how we keep on top of the skills, knowledge and behaviour we need fur decommissioning.
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies:
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B,
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E
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Knowledge and understanding - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimize the application of existing and emerging technology’
For Incorporated Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding to apply existing and emerging technology’
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Design and development of processes, systems, services and products - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of mechanical engineering problems’
For Incorporated Engineers ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to design, develop, manufacture, construct commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle mechanical engineering processes, systems, services and products’
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Responsibility, management or leadership - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: 'Provide Technical and commercial leadership’
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Professional commitment - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: ‘Demonstrate a personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment’
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Jamie East
Jamie is an engineer and learning & development specialist with 15 years of experience in the manufacturing, automotive, and nuclear industries. He’s held engineering roles at AR Controls, Sellafield, the UK National Nuclear Laboratory, and Jacobs (now Amentum), and has lectured at the National College for Nuclear.
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