COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of safe isolation practices for process plant equipment to prevent uncontrolled releases of energy and hazardous materials during maintenance, inspection, commissioning, and shutdown activities. It covers isolation philosophy, planning, execution, verification, and handback, including mechanical isolation, electrical isolation, instrument isolation, and process isolation methods. Participants will learn how to select suitable isolation types, develop isolation plans, manage simultaneous operations, and ensure legal, procedural, and safety compliance through permits to work, lockout and tagout, and isolation certificates.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

1. Explain the purpose of safe isolation and its role in preventing incidents during maintenance and operations.
2. Identify energy sources and hazardous materials that require isolation in process plants.
3. Differentiate between isolation, de-energisation, depressurisation, draining, purging, and gas freeing.
4. Apply isolation hierarchy concepts and select appropriate isolation methods for the risk level.
5. Interpret plant isolation standards, isolation matrices, and typical site procedures.
6. Develop a step-by-step isolation plan aligned with equipment boundaries and work scope.
7. Select and apply mechanical isolation methods, including spading, spectacle blinds, and line breaking controls.
8. Apply double block and bleed and understand limitations for positive isolation requirements.
9. Apply lockout and tagout principles for electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and stored energy systems.
10. Plan and perform safe depressurisation, draining, venting, and purging activities.
11. Define and control isolation requirements for instrumentation, control systems, and safety systems.
12. Conduct isolation verification activities, including try-out, testing, and independent checks.
13. Manage isolations under simultaneous operations and changing operational conditions.
14. Maintain isolation documentation, including isolation certificates, registers, and handover records.
15. Implement safe reinstatement and hand back processes, including removal of isolations and final checks.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Operations personnel (panel and field operators) responsible for isolations and permit control

-Maintenance technicians and supervisors executing work on live plant equipment

-Mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and process engineers supporting work planning

-Permit to work coordinators, area authorities, and isolating authorities

-HSE personnel involved in control of work, risk assessment, and incident prevention

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximise the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive, 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 the learning experience. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

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 completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.