Process Safety Management in Major Petrochemical Plants

A practical programme in petrochemical process safety for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.

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

Course Overview

The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in petrochemical process safety; it has added to it. Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations both accrue interest. The difficulty is not agreeing that the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The course covers petrochemical process safety at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda, not for observers of it. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations hard in practice. Organisations that document petrochemical process safety properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. Participants gain a realistic view of what the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline costs and what it returns. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations rather than a set of notes.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Set the minimum documentation for petrochemical process safety that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

02

Define the escalation path for abnormal conditions detected in petrochemical process safety.

03

Build a register of the risks attaching to petrochemical process safety and keep it current.

04

Build the competence and certification matrix for staff working on petrochemical process safety.

05

Anticipate the objections that petrochemical process safety will attract internally and answer them in advance.

06

Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in petrochemical process safety.

07

Apply recognised integrity and inspection practice to petrochemical process safety.

Who Should Attend

01

Inspection and integrity engineers assessing petrochemical process safety.

02

Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with petrochemical process safety in real time.

03

Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting petrochemical process safety.

04

Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of petrochemical process safety current.

05

Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on petrochemical process safety.

06

Training and development staff building internal capability in petrochemical process safety.

Course Modules

01

Petrochemical process safety: contracts, contractors and service delivery

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Competence and handover on petrochemical process safety when experienced staff leave

  • Confirm handover documentation for petrochemical process safety is complete and current.
  • Model the economics of petrochemical process safety at low, base and high price cases.
  • Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios petrochemical process safety can create.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of petrochemical process safety before proposing changes.

Session 2Reading condition data on petrochemical process safety before failure, not after

  • Define the safe operating envelope for petrochemical process safety and how deviations are detected.
  • Remove steps in petrochemical process safety that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Review incident and near-miss history involving petrochemical process safety.
  • Check that the permit regime covering petrochemical process safety matches the actual hazard.
02

Petrochemical process safety: environmental obligation and emissions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building lasting competence in petrochemical process safety

  • Identify the failure modes of petrochemical process safety with the highest consequence.
  • Set out the decisions in petrochemical process safety that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for petrochemical process safety.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether petrochemical process safety is improving.

Session 2What to measure in petrochemical process safety and what to ignore

  • Build the competence framework that supports petrochemical process safety.
  • Verify isolation points for petrochemical process safety are proven and documented.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about petrochemical process safety.
  • Rehearse the briefing on petrochemical process safety that would follow an incident.
03

Petrochemical process safety: incidents, lessons and continual improvement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Deciding between life extension and replacement for petrochemical process safety

  • Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to petrochemical process safety.
  • Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on petrochemical process safety.
  • Identify where judgement in petrochemical process safety is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of petrochemical process safety current.

Session 2What the last incident involving petrochemical process safety should have taught us

  • Confirm that reporting on petrochemical process safety reaches the people who can act.
  • Establish the alarm philosophy applying to petrochemical process safety and remove nuisance alarms.
  • Record what was learned when petrochemical process safety did not go as planned.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on petrochemical process safety.
04

Petrochemical process safety: competence, certification and handover

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing out petrochemical process safety and capturing what was learned

  • Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to petrochemical process safety.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when petrochemical process safety underperforms.
  • Confirm that lessons from petrochemical process safety are shared beyond the team that learned them.
  • Check that management of change is applied to every modification of petrochemical process safety.

Session 2What the instrumentation on petrochemical process safety is and is not telling you

  • Review the instrumentation on petrochemical process safety for coverage gaps.
  • Set escalation thresholds for petrochemical process safety that work out of hours.
  • Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on petrochemical process safety.
  • Check that petrochemical process safety still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.

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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