Process Safety Management
Overview
Process safety prevents fires, explosions and toxic releases that can harm people, plants and communities. This course covers process safety management elements, hazard identification and risk analysis methods, layers of protection, management of change, operational discipline and learning from incidents.
Who should attend
Process, operations and safety engineers, HSE professionals, supervisors and managers in oil, gas, chemical and power plants.
Training methodology
Technical presentations, worked examples and calculations, case studies from industrial facilities, videos, group exercises, and a personal action plan.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the elements of a process safety management system
- Apply HAZID, HAZOP and what-if methods
- Use bow-tie and layers of protection analysis
- Manage change, pre-startup reviews and operating procedures
- Use process safety indicators and learn from incidents
Course outline
Day 1Process Safety Fundamentals
- Personal versus process safety
- Major accident case histories
- Process safety management frameworks
- Leadership and culture
- Regulatory expectations
- Case study review
Day 2Hazard Identification
- Process hazards: flammables and toxics
- HAZID
- HAZOP methodology
- What-if and checklists
- Process safety information
- Workshop: HAZOP of a node
Day 3Risk Analysis and Barriers
- Risk matrices and ALARP
- Bow-tie analysis
- Layers of protection analysis
- Safety instrumented functions
- Barrier management
- Exercise: build a bow-tie
Day 4Operational Discipline
- Operating procedures
- Management of change
- Pre-startup safety review
- Mechanical integrity
- Permit to work and isolation
- Exercise: MOC case
Day 5Performance and Learning
- Process safety indicators
- Incident investigation
- Emergency preparedness
- Audits and assurance
- Sustaining a process safety culture
- Action plan