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• 2021 Leveraging PFMA to Perform SQRA Virtual Workshop

  • Start
    22 Mar 2021
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    9:30 AM (MDT)
  • End
    26 Mar 2021
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    2:00 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Online
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  Leveraging PFMA to Perform SQRA

  5-Day Virtual Workshop
  

  March 22-26, 2021

  
  

  Eligible for 20 PDH credits
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Description

  Despite the criticism that Potential Failure Mode Analysis (PFMA) has received following the Oroville Dam spillway incident, it has been viewed as a standard of care for dam safety evaluations in the U.S., and with some possible improvements to be more expansive, is expected to be so into the future.  Many PFMA’s have been performed for state- and federally-regulated dams, and as a result of that investment, considerable knowledge has been obtained about vulnerabilities associated with specific dams.  As the federal dam owners have embraced risk assessment as the next step in ensuring that dam safety risks are properly evaluated and managed, it is expected that private and state dam owners will benefit from following suit.  Indeed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has recently adopted Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) as part of their engineering guidelines.  The intent of this training is to leverage and improve on the significant investment that has already been made in performing PFMA’s, and use this information to perform semi-quantitative risk assessments (SQRA) for individual dams or dam portfolios.  These assessments can then be used as a screening tool to identify PFM’s and overall risks which are not likely to meet Tolerable Risk Guidelines (TRG) based on life safety, and as a prioritization tool for reducing risk, performing additional investigations or studies, or performing quantitative risk assessments.  A simplified method for categorizing additional consequences such as those incurred at Oroville is also presented in this training.

  Target Audience

  The target audience for this training is dam owners and regulators who are familiar with the PFMA process, and are wanting to move these types of evaluations into the risk arena.  This would include FERC licensees and their consultants; private, municipal, and state dam owners; and state and federal dam safety regulators.

  Content and Commitment

  This course will take place over five days and  will cover review of the PFMA process, TRG’s, using the PFMA results to perform a SQRA (including additional required input and how to obtain it), estimating consequences including but not limited to life safety, assessing the results, building the dam safety case, and prioritizing risk reduction actions.  

  Instructors

  Bios

  John W. France, PE, D.GE, D.WRE, M. ASCE

  Bill Fiedler, P.E.

  Gregg A Scott, P.E., F. ASCE

  Mel Schaefer Ph.D. P.E.

  
  

  Registration and Cancellation Policy

  No registration is confirmed until full payment is received. Seating is limited and only those with paid status are guaranteed a workshop seat.

  In order to take advantage of early-bird prices, registration must be paid by 2/28/21 

  Cancellations must be received via email to info@ussdams.org in order to receive refunds as stated below:

  ·        By 3/4/21- full refund

  ·        After 3/4: no refund, however substitutions are permitted

  
  

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• 2021 USSD Conference

  • Start
    11 May 2021
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    (MDT)
  • End
    20 May 2021
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    (MDT)
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  

  USSD Virtual Annual Conference

  May 10-May 21, 2021
  

  Safety, Security, and Emergency Response in the 21st Century
  

  
  

  Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic and continued travel restrictions, the USSD annual conference is going virtual.
  

  Scheduled over a two-week period, the conference will be a combination of live-streaming and recorded on-demand sessions.  This provides attendees the ability to view more technical sessions than they would if attending in person. 
  

  Next year also marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon. While no dams or levees were compromised during the attacks, the event resulted in large changes in the approach to infrastructure security nationwide.

   Registration Now Open - Click Here!

  Drafts & Final Papers

  Notification of acceptance were emailed September 11, 2020. 

  • All authors/presenters must upload a form to Speaker Resource Center confirming your intention to participate in the conference and granting USSD permission to publish and distribute your paper/expanded abstract and/or presentation.
  • Authors will be able to access review comments by February 1, 2021.
  • Final papers or expanded abstracts must be uploaded by March 12, 2021.
  • All presenters must submit draft and final PowerPoint presentations to session moderators during March 2021.

  
  All agreements, drafts and final papers/expanded abstracts may be uploaded to your Cvent portal: https://USSDams.org/2021-Papers/
  
  

  All presenters will be expected to attend the Conference and pay the reduced registration fee offered to authors and co-authors.

  USSD website: www.ussdams.org

  Conference website: https://www.ussdconferences.org/d/vnqyhf/ 

  Abstract/Paper Management Portal: http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/993e046e-da9c-4375-a390-2891a462d561

  Speaker Resource Center (SRC): https://cvent.me/2PBOG2 

  Exhibit Booth Information: https://shows.map-dynamics.com/ussd2021/?register

  For more information, contact: 2021conference@ussdams.org, 303-792-8753

  Technical Program Chair: Conrad Ginther (Black & Veatch)

  
  

  Brought to you in part by our 2021 Conference Sponsors

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

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