Course Description
Process safety is not occupational safety scaled up. A site can go years without a lost-time injury and still be one loss of containment away from a catastrophe — because the hazards that kill in bulk are not the ones that show in accident statistics.
This training course develops practical process safety capability for high-hazard industries. Participants learn the distinction between process and personal safety, the anatomy of major accidents and what they have in common, hazard identification and risk assessment for process plant, the control of major accident hazards, asset integrity and barrier management, human factors and organisational culture in process safety, and emergency planning — building the competence to recognise and control the hazards that produce disasters rather than incidents.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish process safety from occupational safety
- Explain the anatomy of major accidents and their common causes
- Apply hazard identification techniques to process plant
- Conduct process safety risk assessment
- Apply barrier thinking and layers of protection
- Manage asset integrity and safety-critical elements
- Address human factors and process safety culture
- Develop emergency planning and response arrangements
How the course is delivered
This training course combines process safety principles with major accident case studies and practical risk assessment exercises. Participants analyse real incidents, apply hazard identification techniques and build barrier models for realistic process plant.
The programme is designed for chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, plastics and pharmaceutical operations, and focuses on the low-frequency, high-consequence hazards that occupational safety systems do not address.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Process safety and HSE professionals
- Operations and maintenance managers in high-hazard industries
- Process and design engineers
- Site and plant managers
- Anyone accountable for major accident hazards
Daily programme
- Process safety versus occupational safety
- The anatomy of major accidents
- Landmark incidents and their lessons
- Process safety management frameworks
- Hazard identification techniques
- HAZOP and what-if analysis
- Consequence assessment
- Risk assessment and tolerability
- Layers of protection and barrier thinking
- Safety-critical elements
- Asset integrity management
- Inspection, testing and maintenance of barriers
- Human factors in process safety
- Process safety culture and leadership
- Performance indicators and learning
- Emergency planning, case study workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
