A procedure for safe start-up and shutdown that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Safety performance on start-up and shutdown degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. Across sectors, teams that rehearse the wider occupational health and safety agenda outperform teams that only plan it. Participants gain a realistic view of what safe start-up and shutdown costs and what it returns. The course gives participants a defensible structure for the occupational health and safety discipline and the judgement to adapt it. The content is relevant to those who own start-up and shutdown and to those who are held accountable for its results. Moving safe start-up and shutdown from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make start-up and shutdown hard in practice. Participants leave with a plan for this aspect of occupational health and safety sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Select and verify the protective equipment required for safe start-up and shutdown.
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Set the minimum documentation for start-up and shutdown that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
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Assess occupational health exposure arising from safe start-up and shutdown and arrange surveillance.
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Select indicators that show whether start-up and shutdown is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
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Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on safe start-up and shutdown.
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Identify the failure points in start-up and shutdown most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
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Close out corrective actions on safe start-up and shutdown rather than leaving them open.
Who Should Attend
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Site and operations supervisors applying safe start-up and shutdown daily.
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Facility and plant managers accountable for start-up and shutdown.
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Staff seconded into improvement work on safe start-up and shutdown.
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Internal auditors verifying controls over start-up and shutdown.
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Anyone whose accountability for safe start-up and shutdown exceeds their current formal training in it.
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Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering start-up and shutdown.
Course Modules
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01
Safe start-up and shutdown: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Making near-miss reporting on safe start-up and shutdown safe to do
Benchmark the organisation's safe start-up and shutdown against comparable operations.
Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for start-up and shutdown are proven before work starts.
Establish the boundary of safe start-up and shutdown and record what sits outside it.
Set out how exceptions to start-up and shutdown are requested and approved.
Session 2The exposure from start-up and shutdown that shows up years later
Agree what will be standardised in safe start-up and shutdown and what will not.
Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on start-up and shutdown.
Identify the hazards in safe start-up and shutdown and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
Remove steps in start-up and shutdown that add effort without adding assurance.
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Start-up and shutdown: procedures, permits and practical controls
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Holding contractors on start-up and shutdown to your own standard
Plan the sequence in which improvements to safe start-up and shutdown will be introduced.
Record who is authorised to work on start-up and shutdown and when authorisation expires.
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to safe start-up and shutdown.
Agree the indicators that will show whether start-up and shutdown is improving.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for start-up and shutdown that have been rehearsed
Rank the weaknesses in safe start-up and shutdown by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Verify permits covering start-up and shutdown are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in safe start-up and shutdown is current.
Verify contractor competence and method statements for start-up and shutdown.
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Start-up and shutdown: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Reading the current state of start-up and shutdown honestly
Ask the people doing safe start-up and shutdown what makes the procedure hard to follow.
Assess long-term health exposure created by start-up and shutdown and arrange surveillance.
Check that records of safe start-up and shutdown answer the questions likely to be asked.
Build the competence framework that supports start-up and shutdown.
Session 2Reviewing safe start-up and shutdown when nothing has gone wrong
Close out corrective actions on safe start-up and shutdown with a named owner and date.
Check that lessons from start-up and shutdown reached other sites doing similar work.
Anticipate the objections safe start-up and shutdown will raise and prepare the answers.
Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for start-up and shutdown, do not just publish it.
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Start-up and shutdown: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Comparing start-up and shutdown with recognised practice
Review whether safe start-up and shutdown is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
Test that protective equipment specified for start-up and shutdown fits and is maintained.
Set leading indicators for safe start-up and shutdown that predict rather than count.
Rehearse the briefing on start-up and shutdown that would follow an incident.
Session 2The permit regime start-up and shutdown needs, and the one it does not
Check the procedure for safe start-up and shutdown against how the work is actually done.
Distinguish symptoms from causes when start-up and shutdown underperforms.
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about safe start-up and shutdown.
Investigate the last incident involving start-up and shutdown to root cause, not to immediate cause.
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Airport Transfers
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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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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