Process Safety Management Course

In this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how a PSM system can help your organisation manage its process safety risks
• Discover how an effective PSM program can identify, evaluate, prevent, or mitigate chemical hazards caused by process inadequacies
• Learn how to identify process safety and major accident hazards in your organisations and plants, and how to assess the risks involved and define critical controls to prevent hazards
• Become aware of the conceptions of static and dynamic barrier management
• Learn how barrier management can be used to analyse process safety and perform root cause incident investigations
• Obtain hands-on experience with PSM tools by drawing bowtie diagrams, etc
• Learn the attributes of different types of barriers: hardware (plant), human (people), and organisational (process)

CONTENT

Introduction & History

• History of Process Safety
• Reasons for Process Safety
• OSHA 14 Regulatory Requirements
• CCPS 20 Elements
• PHAs-Process Hazards Analysis
• Management of Change

Process Safety Leadership

• Process Safety Management Meaning
• Process Safety Leadership
• Organisational Learning
• Management of Change
• Worker Engagement
• Competence

Investigation And Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

• Mechanical Integrity and Reliability
• Incident investigation
• Overview of LOPA
• LOPA Scenarios
• LOPA for Potential Toxic Gas Exposure – Case Analysis
• Datasheet: HAZOP & LOPA Leadership
• Risk Estimation and Management
• Datasheet: Auditing of Layers of Protection

Commit To Process Safety

• Process Safety Culture
• Compliance with Standards
• Process Safety Competency
• Workforce Involvement
• Stakeholder Outreach

Understand Hazards And Risk

• Process Knowledge Management
• Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
  • Biological Hazards
  • Chemical Hazards
  • Physical Hazards
  • Safety Hazards
  • Ergonomic Hazards
  • Psychosocial Hazards

Manage Risks

• Operating Procedures
• Safe Work Practices
• Asset Integrity and Reliability
• Training and Performance Assurance
• Management of Change
• Operational Readiness
• Conduct of Operations
• Emergency Management

Management Of Process Risks

• Establishing A Process Safety Management System
• Risk Management Techniques Applicable in Process Industries
• Assent Management and Maintenance Strategies
• Role and Purpose of a Permit System
• Safe Shift Handover
• Contractor Management

Lessons To Learn From Incidents

• Incident Investigation
• Measurement and Metrics
• The Importance of Auditing
• Management Review and Continuous Improvement

Process Safety Hazard Control

• Operating Procedures
• Safe Start-up and Shutdown
• Safety-Critical Performance Standards
• Utilities
• Electricity / Static Electricity
• Dangerous Substance
• Reaction Hazards
• Bulk Storage Operations

Fire Hazards And Explosion Protection

• Fire Hazards
• Fire and Explosion Control
• Dust Explosions
• Emergency Preparedness
• Emergency Numbers

FOR WHOM

This PSM Training Course would be ideal and best suited for PSM workforce, Senior engineers (e.g., reliability, inspection, operations, etc.), PSM managers, PSM supervisors, Plant or unit managers/team leads, Heads of sections or operations, maintenance, and inspection, engineering, etc. and anyone responsible for communicating process safety information to workers

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.