COURSE OVERVIEW:

The course will provide the participants with a structured understanding of general process hazards that may result in loss of containment or loss of production with the consequent potential for onsite and off-site injury, environmental harm, and asset damage. It presents a general review of the hazard identification techniques developed in the petrochemical and process industries for identifying and assessing risk, either qualitatively or quantitatively. The course will also explore how plant design, inherently safer concepts, management systems, and layers of protection (including basic process control, relief devices, and safety instrumented systems) work together to prevent incidents and mitigate their consequences.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

1. Describe the main categories of process hazards in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries and their potential consequences.
2. Explain the relationship between loss of containment, escalation mechanisms, and impacts on people, environment, assets, and reputation.
3. Identify and compare key process hazard identification techniques such as checklists, HAZID, HAZOP, what if, and others, and understand when each is most appropriate.
4. Distinguish between qualitative, semi quantitative, and quantitative approaches to risk assessment.
5. Explain fundamental risk concepts including frequency, consequence, individual and societal risk, and tolerability criteria.
6. Describe the role of plant design, inherently safer concepts, and management systems in reducing process safety risk.
7. Understand the principles and methodology of Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and its role in bridging qualitative studies and detailed design.
8. Identify different types of protection layers including basic process control systems, relief valves, safety instrumented systems, and passive safeguards.
9. Explain the basic design intent and operating principles of relief valves and associated protection systems.
10. Describe the purpose and functionality of safety interlock systems and their interface with basic control and protection layers.
11. Evaluate the adequacy of existing protection systems at a conceptual level and identify gaps or areas needing further analysis.
12. Participate effectively in multidisciplinary hazard identification, risk assessment, and protection system review workshops.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process safety professionals

-Process engineers and senior process engineers

-HSE and risk engineers

-Operations and production engineers and supervisors

-Instrumentation, control, and safety system engineers

-Project and design engineers involved in new facilities and modifications

-Integrity, reliability, and audit personnel supporting process safety management

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material through PowerPoint equipped with necessary animation, learning videos, and general discussions will be provided.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and after the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total attendance time requirement.