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PHA Methodology & Leadership - HAZOP Training

Course #101/121

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Course content may be chosen from a combination of training modules, depending on the experience of the team. The modules include interactive workshops, allowing team members to act as HAZOP Facilitators & Scribes using standard process examples or the client’s own examples. Modules can also be modified to allow on-site facilitation of a PHA by our HAZOP Team Leader where the client’s trained facilitators can observe how we facilitate. Process Safety Management, Process Modifications, Pre-Development Reviews facilitation can be provided. Course certificates that indicate the training modules covered, and which can be used to document employee training and competency as per OSHA requirements, are issued to persons who complete the course.
Module One - Risk Concepts & Introduction to Process Hazards Analysis

The first module presents the basic groundwork on HAZOPs, including recommended reporting methods, tracking, resolutions as well as HAZOP variations:

  • Concepts of risk and risk terminology
  • Hazards identification methodologies and techniques
  • Regulatory developments governing the process industry: OSHA
  • Process Hazards Analyses — How, When, Why PSM (29 CFR 1910.119), EPA RMP Rule (40 CFR Part 68)
  • Do’s and Don’ts and how to avoid traps: EPA Clean Air Act, individual state legislation in U.S.A., United Kingdom and European Commission
  • Regulatory developments/legislative trends to control risk
  • Industrial incidents of major significance
Module Two - Hazards Identification Methodologies

The second module investigates WHAT to do WHEN, with respect to the different processes, focusing on HAZOP and What If/Checklist variations, process modifications, procedural HAZOP and examples:

  • Methodologies and their uses
  • FMEA application and execution
  • HAZOP — Guide Word and Knowledge Based — plus pitfalls
  • Preliminary Hazards Analysis: application and execution
    • of HAZOP, avoiding traps and enhancing productivity
  • Choice of hazards identification technique
  • What If/Checklist plus preparation of checklists for What If/
    • Checklist
  • Revalidation of PHAs for OSHA 1910.119
Module Three - Team Leadership & Execution

The third module provides the broad picture of both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment:

  • Establishing purpose, overcoming opposition, driving forces
  • Seven key points for exercising responsibility
  • Choice of PHA to be used and factors in determining choice
  • List of steps for performing PHAs
  • Estimation of scheduling requirements
  • Handling recommendations
  • Preparation for PHA sessions
  • Auditing of PHAs
  • Thoroughness of analyses
  • Conducting PHA sessions
  • PHA Leadership: Responsibility and why it needs emphasis
  • Preparation of PHA reports
Module Four - Advanced HAZOP and PHA Training Course

The fourth module is meant for those who have a firm grasp on PHA techniques and would like to investigate more advanced methods of hazards identification. Topics may include:

  • Types of HAZOPs: Deviation Based, “Creative identification of deviations & disturbances,” Knowledge Based HAZOP
  • Management of Change (MOC)
  • What qualifies for MOC?
  • Improving productivity and efficiency of HAZOPs
  • Siting
  • Optimization of node sizes — pros and cons
  • API 752, “Management of Hazards Associated with Dyadem method for deriving deviations Process Plant Buildings”
  • Creation of checklists
  • Minimizing hazards through improved layout
  • Human Factors: through PHA-Pro® General Categories
  • Explosion modeling
  • PSI (Process Safety)
  • Process Safety Management
Module Five - PHA Documentation Control/Report Generation

  • Recording hazard evaluations
  • Defining risk matrices
  • Documenting recommendations
  • Creating custom libraries
  • Creating a PHA Corporate Template
  • Document protection and tracking document changes
  • Conducting a PHA revalidation study
  • Generating reports