Who is this programme for?
Process-industry engineers, supervisors and safety personnel concerned with hazardous processes and prevention of major incidents.
The published outline includes process hazard analysis, HAZOP, fault and event trees, risk-reduction concepts, fire and explosion hazards and investigation. It suits learners ready to connect technical analysis with management controls.
What will you learn?
Understand the organisational and technical controls that help prevent major process-related incidents.
- Process hazard analysis and structured methods for evaluating major-event scenarios.
- The relationship between safeguards, operating arrangements and emergency planning.
- Incident learning, changes to processes and review of management controls.
Why do process changes need structured review?
A change can alter assumptions used to assess a process, even when it appears small. Equipment, materials, operating conditions and organisational arrangements may interact. Process safety learning helps explain why reviewing those interfaces is part of preventing major incidents.
The emphasis is on understanding safeguards and their management rather than relying on a single indicator. A useful analysis makes assumptions visible, considers consequences and supports decisions that can be reviewed when the process or information changes.
How is learning assessed?
Assessment involves written and practical work, case studies and project-based application. Being able to explain the assumptions and limits of an analysis is as important as naming the techniques.
How is process safety different from personal safety?
Personal safety often focuses on immediate task-related injury. Process safety addresses loss of containment and other events that can affect many people and the environment. Both matter, but a low personal-injury rate does not demonstrate that major-hazard controls are effective.