Introduction to Process Safety for Managers Training Course

Course Content

Introduction

1. What is Safety?
2. Hazard and Risk.
3. The difference between process safety and occupational safety.
4. Accident case studies - individual and group exercise.
5. The commercial and legal importance of process safety.

UK regulatory framework and the COMAH Regulations

1. UK process safety legislation within the context of the Health & Safety at Work act.
2. Process Risk Assessment & HazOp Study.
3. The Hierarchy of controls and the importance of “inherently safer design”.
4. Process safeguards and the layer of protection concept.

An Introduction to The COMAH Regulations

1. The requirements of COMAH.
2. The concept of ALARP.

The management of flammable atmospheres - an introduction to DSEAR and ATEX

The Principles of Process Safety Management

1. Frameworks for Process Safety Management.
2. Process Safety Culture.
   • Human factors in process safety.
3. Process Safety Leadership.
4. Leading and Lagging Indicators.
   • Leading and lagging indicators group exercise.
5. The role of managers and team leaders in process safety management.
   • The journey towards process safety maturity within an organization.

Course conclusion

Who should attend

• Site, operations and production managers who have responsibility for ensuring process safety on their sites.
• Project and engineering managers on high-hazard sites.
• Occupational safety professionals moving into process safety or taking on process safety management responsibilities.
• Anybody who wants to gain an overview of process safety in the chemical industry, and how to achieve it.

Pre qualification

This course assumes no-prior knowledge of process safety. However, it is assumed that delegates will already have experience of working within the chemical or manufacturing industry, for example operations personnel or engineers recently promoted to management roles.

Please note that this course is intended within a UK context and will refer to UK legislation and UK accepted methods of achieving process safety. However, it is based on widely accepted principles of process safety management which are applicable worldwide.

After this Workshop

After this Workshop you will be able to

• Explain what process safety is, why it is important, and how it can be achieved.
• Describe typical major accident hazards and their consequences – what can go wrong on chemical plants, and how to prevent that.
• Describe the regulatory framework for process safety within the UK
• Explain the importance of inherently safer design and the layer of protection concept within process safety.
• Describe the purpose of a HazOp study and how it works
• Explain the main elements of effective process safety management system
• Assess the maturity of an organisation with respect to process safety management

What you will get

• The course material in printed format.
• A Certificate of Attendance for each delegate that attends the full course.

Course options

This course can be delivered either in person as a one-day course, or “live-online” over two half-days. It can also be delivered as a closed course for a single client. Closed courses can be tailored to meet your exact needs, for example by training to your own process safety management procedures.

Related Training Courses

Please also note that our Introduction to Functional Safety and Hazard Study for Team Members training courses, cover areas closely related to this course.

About the Trainer

Price

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Course Enquiries

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