COURSE OVERVIEW

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

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Certified HAZOP Member. It covers the importance of process safety, common types of industrial hazards, difference between risk and hazard and process safety management (PSM) standards; the process hazard analysis (PHA) techniques, principles and terminology of HAZOP and HAZOP guide words and parameters; the HAZOP leader and scribe responsibilities and role of discipline engineers; and the importance of diverse expertise and rules for effective participation. Further, the course will also discuss the PHA software tools, features and functionalities; the benefits of digital versus manual recording and industry practices in digital documentation; the PFDs, P&IDs and process node identification and segmentation; the HAZOP deviation analysis techniques and standard worksheet structure; the record deviations, causes, consequences and safeguards and recommendations; and the consistency and clarity in documentation. 

 During this interactive course, participants will learn the pre-work and planning activities, kickoff checklist and advanced P&ID review techniques; the critical deviations, multiple causes, classifying consequence severity and evaluating safeguard adequacy; the risk assessment, risk ranking matrix, functional safety and instrumented protective systems; the recommendations management and action tracking, process mode considerations, batch operation hazards and special hazards in startup/shutdown; the HAZOP variations and adaptations, subdividing process into modes and operating phases and HAZOP for utilities and ancillary systems; the leadership and facilitation of HAZOP studies, regulatory requirements, HAZOP standards and linking HAZOP to LOPA and other risk tools; and the HAZOP in digital/smart plants, auditing and validation of HAZOP studies and human factors in HAZOP.