COURSE OVERVIEW

  This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using one of our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

The escape of toxic methyl isocyanate vapour from the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal, India on December 1984 was the most serious process plant incident in history, causing thousands of deaths and many tens of thousands of severe injuries, many of them causing permanent incapacity. This and the explosion at the Phillips Petroleum polyethylene plant at Pasadena on 23 October 1989, which killed 23 people and injured hundreds more, alerted petroleum companies around the world to adopt an emergency response, crisis management and risk assessment.

 

The American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created regulations designed to require employers to prevent and plan for similar emergencies. In this course, you will learn how you can use these planning requirements to protect people, property and the environment from the type of disaster that occurred in Bhopal, as well as other emergencies that might impact your workplace.

 

A crisis can be environmental, natural, industrial or business and can be caused by millions of reasons. Crisis management consists of the different means of dealing with these different forms of crises. Crisis Management involves identifying the crisis, planning a response to the crisis and confronting and resolving the crisis. The way of dealing with a crisis depends on its nature, scale and seriousness.

 

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the emergency and loss control response measures and procedures. It covers emergency preparedness, planning and response; how to handle an emergency and mitigate consequences; emergency scenarios & how to use available resources; crisis management; crisis communication and responses; know what is risk assessment and its role in HSE; risk assessment steps; and risk management.