Prevent – Protect -Mitigation Training Exercise

I am teaching my 3-Day Intermediate Process Safety course this week, and one of the popular exercises we do on Day 1 is the “Vehicle Safety Challenge.”  It is designed to teach students to begin thinking about Layers of Protection within the PREVENT-PROTECT-MITIGATE model.  Five students in four (4) groups have 15 minutes to

identify the devices/systems they have on their vehicles that are intended to:

1. PREVENT an accident
2. PROTECT the occupants once the accident begins
3. MITIGATE the consequences of the accident