Building Safe Pressure Testing Protocols for Hydraulic Systems

Turn hydraulic pressure testing from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Maintenance budgets are cut on hydraulic pressure testing in good years and paid for in bad ones. Participants who influence this strand of engineering and maintenance work without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Applied research in engineering and maintenance work consistently shows that early structure around this area of engineering and maintenance work reduces downstream rework. Participants leave with a method for hydraulic pressure testing, not a set of opinions about it. Plans for this part of engineering and maintenance work often fail at the handover point between functions. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this aspect of engineering and maintenance work under scrutiny. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a maintenance procedure for hydraulic pressure testing as they go. The final module sets out how progress on this area of engineering and maintenance work will be evidenced six months later.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Select the maintenance strategy for hydraulic pressure testing — run to failure, preventive, or condition-based — on evidence.

02

Determine the failure modes of hydraulic pressure testing and the consequence of each.

03

Sequence improvements to hydraulic pressure testing so that each step makes the next one easier.

04

Distinguish the parts of hydraulic pressure testing that must be standardised from those that require judgement.

05

Plan the handover of hydraulic pressure testing so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.

06

Set criticality ratings that drive work order priority for hydraulic pressure testing.

07

Build the inspection and test plan covering hydraulic pressure testing.

Who Should Attend

01

Consultants and advisers supporting clients on hydraulic pressure testing.

02

Finance staff assessing maintenance and replacement spend on hydraulic pressure testing.

03

Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes hydraulic pressure testing.

04

Inspection and integrity engineers assessing hydraulic pressure testing.

05

Mechanical, electrical and instrumentation technicians working on hydraulic pressure testing.

06

Reliability engineers analysing failures in hydraulic pressure testing.

Course Modules

01

Hydraulic pressure testing: inspection, testing and acceptance criteria

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Investigating the failure on hydraulic pressure testing that keeps returning

  • Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Benchmark the organisation's hydraulic pressure testing against comparable operations.
  • Set maintenance indicators for hydraulic pressure testing that reward planning rather than heroics.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to hydraulic pressure testing.

Session 2Choosing a maintenance strategy for hydraulic pressure testing on evidence

  • Set out how exceptions to hydraulic pressure testing are requested and approved.
  • Choose the maintenance strategy for hydraulic pressure testing based on failure pattern, not tradition.
  • Prepare the summary of hydraulic pressure testing that senior management will read.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in hydraulic pressure testing.
02

Hydraulic pressure testing: safe isolation and permit control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Planning work on hydraulic pressure testing so it does not become reactive

  • Test the procedure for hydraulic pressure testing against a realistic scenario.
  • Set out the decisions in hydraulic pressure testing that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Identify single points of dependency in hydraulic pressure testing and reduce them.
  • Set the review interval for hydraulic pressure testing and who attends.

Session 2Closing out hydraulic pressure testing and capturing what was learned

  • Compare the cost of hydraulic pressure testing with the cost of its absence.
  • Close out actions on hydraulic pressure testing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Draft the minimum viable maintenance procedure for hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Anticipate the objections hydraulic pressure testing will raise and prepare the answers.
03

Hydraulic pressure testing: history, documentation and competence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Maintenance indicators for hydraulic pressure testing that change behaviour

  • Assign a criticality rating to hydraulic pressure testing that drives work order priority.
  • Set escalation thresholds for hydraulic pressure testing that work out of hours.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to hydraulic pressure testing will be introduced.
  • Define acceptance criteria for hydraulic pressure testing in advance.

Session 2The cost of hydraulic pressure testing and how to present it

  • Define acceptance criteria for completed work on hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Confirm that those complying with hydraulic pressure testing understand why it exists.
  • Estimate the resource hydraulic pressure testing requires to run as designed.
  • Remove steps in hydraulic pressure testing that add effort without adding assurance.
04

Hydraulic pressure testing: failure modes, consequence and criticality

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where hydraulic pressure testing typically breaks, and why

  • List the credible failure modes of hydraulic pressure testing and the consequence of each.
  • Agree the smallest change to hydraulic pressure testing that would be visibly useful.
  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Investigate repeat failures on hydraulic pressure testing to root cause, not to component.

Session 2What condition data on hydraulic pressure testing is telling you early

  • Establish the boundary of hydraulic pressure testing and record what sits outside it.
  • Build the competence framework that supports hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Name a single owner for each element of hydraulic pressure testing.
  • Arrange the handover of hydraulic pressure testing so capability survives staff changes.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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