Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in explosion protection and hazardous areas — it punishes it. The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in hazardous areas; it has added to it. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting explosion protection and hazardous areas and under-invest in testing it. They leave able to brief senior management on the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations in terms that support a decision. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in hazardous areas, not around theory headings. Organisations that document explosion protection and hazardous areas properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in hazardous areas rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The programme closes with an action plan for the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Build the competence and certification matrix for staff working on explosion protection and hazardous areas.
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Build the internal capability for hazardous areas rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
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Verify that contractors working on explosion protection and hazardous areas meet the same standard as direct staff.
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Set a realistic target state for hazardous areas and a defensible route to it.
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Establish what evidence would demonstrate that explosion protection and hazardous areas is under control.
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Structure contracts and service agreements covering hazardous areas.
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Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to explosion protection and hazardous areas across the asset life cycle.
Who Should Attend
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Risk managers assessing the exposure created by explosion protection and hazardous areas.
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Contract and procurement staff supporting hazardous areas.
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Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering explosion protection and hazardous areas.
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Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting hazardous areas.
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Newly appointed managers taking on explosion protection and hazardous areas for the first time.
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Operations and production engineers responsible for hazardous areas.
Course Modules
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01
Explosion protection and hazardous areas: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The environmental exposure created by explosion protection and hazardous areas
Verify isolation points for explosion protection and hazardous areas are proven and documented.
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about hazardous areas.
Review the instrumentation on explosion protection and hazardous areas for coverage gaps.
Set escalation thresholds for hazardous areas that work out of hours.
Session 2What the last incident involving hazardous areas should have taught us
Define the trigger that would require explosion protection and hazardous areas to be redesigned.
Confirm that those complying with hazardous areas understand why it exists.
Confirm that lessons from explosion protection and hazardous areas are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Define acceptance criteria for hazardous areas in advance.
02
Hazardous areas: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Competence and handover on hazardous areas when experienced staff leave
Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to explosion protection and hazardous areas.
Check that management of change is applied to every modification of hazardous areas.
Rehearse the briefing on explosion protection and hazardous areas that would follow an incident.
Establish the alarm philosophy applying to hazardous areas and remove nuisance alarms.
Session 2The permit and isolation regime that hazardous areas actually requires
Identify single points of dependency in explosion protection and hazardous areas and reduce them.
Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to hazardous areas.
Set the review interval for explosion protection and hazardous areas and who attends.
Build the internal briefing that explains hazardous areas to those affected.
03
Hazardous areas: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The paperwork for hazardous areas that is actually needed
Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios explosion protection and hazardous areas can create.
Check that the permit regime covering hazardous areas matches the actual hazard.
Confirm that reporting on explosion protection and hazardous areas reaches the people who can act.
Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on hazardous areas.
Session 2The cost of explosion protection and hazardous areas and how to present it
Check that records of explosion protection and hazardous areas answer the questions likely to be asked.
Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of hazardous areas current.
Model the economics of explosion protection and hazardous areas at low, base and high price cases.
Agree the smallest change to hazardous areas that would be visibly useful.
04
Hazardous areas: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Reviewing hazardous areas when nothing has gone wrong
Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for explosion protection and hazardous areas.
Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on hazardous areas.
Identify the failure modes of explosion protection and hazardous areas with the highest consequence.
Review incident and near-miss history involving hazardous areas.
Session 2Building the investment case for hazardous areas that finance will accept
Build the competence framework that supports explosion protection and hazardous areas.
Define the safe operating envelope for hazardous areas and how deviations are detected.
Confirm handover documentation for explosion protection and hazardous areas is complete and current.
Confirm that contractual obligations around hazardous areas are understood.
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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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