Build the safety case or justification supporting hazard and operability studies.
Building Hazard and Operability Studies for Critical Processes
Build a working method for hazard and operability studies that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
A procedure for hazard and operability studies that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Where operability studies depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. The most reliable predictor of sound this strand of occupational health and safety is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The programme converts hazard and operability studies from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the wider occupational health and safety agenda and revise it on evidence. Progress on operability studies is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on hazard and operability studies are used deliberately. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of operability studies and prepares them for it. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to this strand of occupational health and safety that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on operability studies.
Align hazard and operability studies with the wider objectives of the work site rather than optimising it in isolation.
Plan the training and refresher cycle sustaining competence in operability studies.
Plan the handover of hazard and operability studies so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Structure records of operability studies so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Verify that contractors performing hazard and operability studies meet the same standard as direct employees.
Who Should Attend
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from hazard and operability studies.
Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering operability studies.
Site and operations supervisors applying hazard and operability studies daily.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting operability studies.
Facility and plant managers accountable for hazard and operability studies.
Anyone whose accountability for operability studies exceeds their current formal training in it.
Course Modules
Hazard and operability studies: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the hazards in hazard and operability studies without turning it into paperwork
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for hazard and operability studies.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in operability studies is current.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around hazard and operability studies are understood.
- Test the procedure for operability studies against a realistic scenario.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for operability studies that have been rehearsed
- Reduce the variation in how hazard and operability studies is carried out between teams.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in operability studies.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by hazard and operability studies and arrange surveillance.
- Prepare the summary of operability studies that senior management will read.
Operability studies: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in operability studies that cannot be delegated
- Map the handovers in hazard and operability studies between functions and secure them.
- Close out corrective actions on operability studies with a named owner and date.
- Audit application of hazard and operability studies controls at the workface.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in operability studies short and non-punitive.
Session 2Who is competent to work on operability studies, and how you know
- Check that lessons from hazard and operability studies reached other sites doing similar work.
- Identify single points of dependency in operability studies and reduce them.
- Test that protective equipment specified for hazard and operability studies fits and is maintained.
- Estimate the resource operability studies requires to run as designed.
Operability studies: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing operability studies with recognised practice
- Rehearse the briefing on hazard and operability studies that would follow an incident.
- Build the competence framework that supports operability studies.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for hazard and operability studies are proven before work starts.
- Rank the weaknesses in operability studies by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Session 2The exposure from hazard and operability studies that shows up years later
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for hazard and operability studies, do not just publish it.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether operability studies is improving.
- Define acceptance criteria for hazard and operability studies in advance.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about operability studies.
Operability studies: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making near-miss reporting on operability studies safe to do
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of hazard and operability studies current.
- Set leading indicators for operability studies that predict rather than count.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for hazard and operability studies.
- Identify the hazards in operability studies and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
Session 2Closing out operability studies and capturing what was learned
- Ask the people doing hazard and operability studies what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Check the procedure for operability studies against how the work is actually done.
- Record who is authorised to work on hazard and operability studies and when authorisation expires.
- Investigate the last incident involving operability studies to root cause, not to immediate cause.
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- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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