Course Overview

This course introduces participants to quantitative risk analysis using RMC‑TotalRisk through practical, hands‑on training. Across three sessions, participants will learn core concepts, explore single-failure risk and multiple failure modes, and apply system‑level, multi‑hazard approaches. You will build event trees, combine hazards and consequences, evaluate system risk, and apply uncertainty options to produce clear, transparent, and defensible dam and levee risk assessments. The course fosters confidence in interpreting results, evaluating uncertainty, and communicating transparent, well-supported risk findings.

Learning Outcomes

In this course, you will be able to:

• Build and interpret single-failure quantitative risk analyses using core RMC-TotalRisk features.
• Construct event trees and combine multiple PFMs with differing response probabilities and consequence exposures.
• Evaluate system-level risk for dams, levees, and multi-hazard scenarios.
• Apply uncertainty options to quantify and communicate confidence in risk estimates.
• Produce clear, defensible risk outputs to support dam and levee studies.

Course Outline

Session 1: Foundations of Quantitative Risk Analysis in RMC-TotalRisk

(Thursday, 12 March from 9 AM – 11 AM Sydney Time)

• Overview of the federal quantitative risk framework and core terminology.
• Introduction to the RMC-TotalRisk interface, workflow, and default settings.
• Building a single-failure flood-driven analysis for dams, levees, and FRM projects.
• Interpreting key outputs including the annual probability of failure, expected losses, and risk metrics.
• Demonstration of simple failure diagrams and baseline risk calculations.

Session 2: Modelling Multiple Failure Modes and Event Trees

(Thursday, 19 March from 9 AM – 11 AM Sydney Time)

• Constructing event trees and combining system response probabilities (SRPs).
• Modelling multiple PFMs with differing consequences and exposure pathways.
• Developing composite response and composite consequence calculations.
• Developing and interpreting multi-failure risk diagrams and how risks accumulate across PFMs.
• Best practices for documenting and reviewing multi-PFM analysis.

Session 3: System-Level Risk, Multi-Hazard Analysis, and Uncertainty

(Thursday, 26 March from 9 AM – 11 AM Sydney Time)

• Building system configurations with multiple components (e.g., levee systems, gates, and structures).
• Integrating multiple hazards such as flood and seismic loading.
• Modelling risk for connected systems, including FDA-type multi-levee examples.
• Applying uncertainty options and interpreting confidence in risk estimates.
• Demonstrating multi-hazard, multi-component workflows to support comprehensive studies.

Format

• 6+ hours of session recordings with unlimited access for 30-days.
• Pre-and-post-course materials to go through via the AWS learning platform.
• Homework exercises between the 3 sessions.
• Slides, manual/s and background readings.
• Ability to ask questions to the presenters at any time through the live sessions and via the learning platform.

Pre-requisites

• A general understanding of dam and levee safety concepts and flood-risk management.
• Familiarity with basic risk terminology such as potential failure modes, consequences, likelihood, and event trees.
• (Optional) AWS On-demand LifeSim Essentials course.
• (Optional) AWS Past Webinar:

Advances in Flood Consequence Assessments

Requirements

• 64-bit Windows Operating System (Windows 10 or newer).
• RMC-TotalRisk version 1.0: https://github.com/USACE-RMC/RMC-TotalRisk/releases/download/v1.0/RMC-TotalRisk.v1.0.zip
• Microsoft Excel

Completion Certification

• Participants earn CPD hours/points (i.e. with Engineers Australia) for at least 6 hours for the entire course. 
• On completion of the course attendees will be issued with a Certificate of Completion. 

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