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This one-day course focuses on the fundamentals of fire and gas detector mapping and layout. The objective of a fire and gas detector analysis is to provide a minimum number of flammable and toxic gas detectors, and flame and heat detectors to maximize detector coverage of unwanted releases or fires. This course covers point and line-of-sight gas detectors, as well as UV/IR flame detectors and heat detectors. This training will focus on scenario coverage based on the consequences and risks of the various hazards.
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Course Facilitators
Upcoming Sessions
Virtual (1 day)
Single Registrant
$750.00*
Groups 2-5
$637.50*
Groups 6+
$562.50*
* price per person
November 10, 2026
9:00 am CDT
Customized Courses
While BakerRisk offers a range of pre-packaged courses, we recognize that the most effective courses incorporate your company’s specific hazards, incidents, and lessons learned. Please contact us to discuss how we can custom-tailor courses to fit your company’s needs. Your course may include:
Courses may be offered at your site or a BakerRisk location, depending on the course or your needs.
We’ll walk through your facility to customize courses to suit and include an assessment.
Utilize demonstrations to give a first-hand feel of hazards through simulations.
Case studies using real scenarios, including role play, so participants can apply their new training.
Related Resources
The webinar will highlight the release of our new best practice, “F&G Detector Mapping,” during which our experts will discuss the importance of incorporating fire & gas detection systems capable of detecting gas leaks, fires, and related hazards to reduce and mitigate risks at operating facilities.
Historically, the placement of fire and gas detectors has been based on experience and judgment.
Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) is an extremely powerful tool to help one objectively assess the risk of complex processes. Most processes that use Highly Toxic Materials (HTMs) are complicated and pose hazards both to the employees on site and, in many cases, to the neighbouring offsite community. Understanding the risk associated with these HTM processes is often complicated due to the many risk mitigation systems that may be employed by the operator to control the hazards. Companies often conduct QRA studies to evaluate the potential risk exposures to their employees and neighbouring communities and, in some cases, to satisfy regulatory requirements. Regulatory bodies increasingly scrutinise QRA studies as part of their determination on the tolerability of risk posed by facilities processing HTMs.
A natural gas fired industrial oven exploded during an attempted restart a few hours after a cold start. The explosion was caused by accumulation of natural gas during the hours preceding the restart. The oven had a fully-automated control system, and the start, shutdown, and restart were controlled by process controls and a flame safeguard system. A malfunction of the flame detector allowed the automated controls to complete the start sequence and establish normal operating status without a flame present in the burner. The UV flame sensor gave a false positive signal, which allowed unburned natural gas to enter the oven. The investigation explored the cause of the incident and the failure modes of the flame detector.
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