Course Outline:

Creating a strong process safety culture whilst ensuring management buy-in and adoption at every level of your organization

• Pinpointing the areas of corporate culture that have caused incidents in the past
• Understanding key elements of a successful safety culture and using these as a basis for internal standards
• Strengthening safety culture through a strong emphasis communicated through your management
• Promoting an incident reporting culture to establish a full picture of all hazardous events
• Implementing tools to strengthen process safety culture and help overcome challenges posed by acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures
• Employing expert safety training for plant and project managers to ensure process safety on all levels

Identifying the value of enhancing visibility for workers and assets to improve personnel and asset safety

• Understanding the internet of things: real-time location and context awareness
• Outlining why they are relevant for the oil and gas industry
• Discovering how location and context awareness help you enhance safety, incident prevention and emergency management
• Exploring how they help optimize your assets inventory, and logistics and asset safety
• Clarifying in what way they represent a game changer for personnel safety and asset management

Managing and influencing HSE in a joint partnership operation: Identifying and overcoming key challenges regarding contractor safety by understanding their competence levels and working practice

• Exploring why and which hazardous situations frequently involve contractors and sub-contractors
• Establishing competence and knowledge levels of corporate process safety policies and practices
• Involving contractors and sub-contractors in training to ensure they are aware of safety procedures
• Measuring levels of process safety by implementing performance metrics effectively
• Optimizing safety performance by monitoring contractors’ work and amending requirements if necessary

Effectively integrating people, processes and risk management data

• Exploring the importance of taking a holistic approach to risk management
• Applying business intelligence and model-risk-adjusted business scenarios based on detailed reporting and real-time information
• Ensuring an increased level of awareness to risk exposure and unplanned events
• Understanding how to properly identify, mitigate and monitor risks in an efficient and auditable manner
• How risk management data can facilitate better and faster decision-making across the enterprise

EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) for the E&P and petrochemical industries

• Introducing RMP by outlining its background
• Exploring process safety management, RMP and inherently safer processes and technologies
• Identifying priority RMP findings and key points
• Uncovering current activities associated with petro-refining and high-risk facilities
• Highlighting the next steps and future plans

Tackling engineering and operational process safety challenges of facilities in Deepwater areas

• Meeting physical and economic challenges imposed by Deepwater environments
• Verifying designs employing unique operating characteristics to ensure safety of operations
• Outlining research findings on assessments to correct or reverse problematic aging events to ensure the integrity of older facilities
• Assessing the safest and most feasible means of decommissioning and removal of facilities

Learning from previous incidents by implementing new measures and work practices to ensure mechanical and operational integrity: case study

• Assessing whether the key causes of previous events were provoked by human, equipment or external failure and examining the consequences involved
• Understanding main operational hazard areas and exploring operational errors
• Investigating mechanical failures of equipment to process, store and handle highly hazardous chemicals
• Establishing a mechanical integrity program specifying inspections, maintenance procedures
• Creating a focus on operational process safety whilst emphasizing personal safety through internal safety awareness activities and training