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Fundamentals of Process Safety - PS-2

Discipline: Process Facilities
Level: Foundation
Instructors who teach this course:
  • Mr. Colin Watson
    Mr. Colin Watson
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    MR. COLIN WATSON has over 41 years' broad experience in petrochemicals, primarily in engineering support and process safety management. He joined PetroSkills as an instructor in 2014. His experience includes assignments in technical support, operations, turnarounds, project execution and HSE and engineering management. From 2006 he has worked as an independent Engineering and Process Safety Consultant working with oil and gas clients. He has worked primarily with BP to design, develop and facilitate their global Process Safety training and awareness programs both for engineering and operations teams. In a varied 28-year career in BP he latterly worked to develop strategic structures and governance systems to manage Process Safety and Integrity Management for the BP Grangemouth Complex and the European BP Chemicals Sites. His operations experience providing technical support and engineering management extends across a variety of petrochemical and refining processes. He holds a BSc in Engineering Science (Mechanical) from Edinburgh University (1978) and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

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  • About the course
  • Designed For
  • You will learn
  • Course Content
The course will cover the fundamentals of Process Safety for all staff levels of processing facilities in the upstream and downstream oil, gas, and petrochemical industry. To identify how different disciplines and roles can have an impact on Process Safety performance, there is a rolling case study (Project COLEX) throughout the course that involves the installation of a separator vessel. The associated Process Safety considerations and implications are explored and discussed at the various stages, from design to full operation.


"This covered wide range of process safety aspect and method/techniques of managing." - SSHE Engineer, Myanmar


"A holistic approach to the whole process safety cycle with not too much detail on technical (right balance)." - Labor Inspection Officer, Cyprus
The course will benefit all staff associated with the operation, maintenance, and governance in production and processing facilities. It is relevant to roles, including senior management, project and engineering support teams, HSE support, supervisors, and operator and maintenance technicians. An understanding is provided of the design basis and essentials for safe operations, without addressing the more detailed calculation aspects covered in Process Safety Engineering PS-4.
How To:
  • Identify the systems and processes required to enhance process safety in a high hazard installation
  • Identify and choose appropriate techniques and tools to qualitatively assess process hazards
  • Determine appropriate risk reduction strategies and identify effective risk reduction measures to prevent, control, and mitigate process safety risk
  • Recognize and develop systems to manage Process Safety in operations through operating procedures and operating limits, ensuring plant integrity through maintenance and inspection
  • Use a management of change process to minimize risk of change
  • Identify and monitor key performance measures and verifications to maintain and improve safety performance
  • Business context for Process Safety
  • Risk assessment (hazard identification, hazard scenarios, consequence and likelihood analysis, and risk analysis and tools and techniques)
  • Risk reduction measures (barriers)
  • Management of process safety in operations (operating procedures, design and operating limits, human factors, inspection and maintenance, and emergency response)
  • Management of change
  • Learning from previous incidents and near misses
  • Self-verification and measurement
  • Process safety key performance indicators
  • Management review and auditing
  • Process safety leadership (governance and culture)
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Fundamentals of Process Safety - PS-2
Discipline: Process Facilities
Level: Foundation
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Colin Watson
The course will cover the fundamentals of Process Safety for all staff levels of processing facilities in the upstream and downstream oil, gas, and petrochemical industry. To identify how different disciplines and roles can have an impact on Process Safety performance, there is a rolling case study (Project COLEX) throughout the course that involves the installation of a separator vessel. The associated Process Safety considerations and implications are explored and discussed at the various stages, from design to full operation.


"This covered wide range of process safety aspect and method/techniques of managing." - SSHE Engineer, Myanmar


"A holistic approach to the whole process safety cycle with not too much detail on technical (right balance)." - Labor Inspection Officer, Cyprus
Designed For:
The course will benefit all staff associated with the operation, maintenance, and governance in production and processing facilities. It is relevant to roles, including senior management, project and engineering support teams, HSE support, supervisors, and operator and maintenance technicians. An understanding is provided of the design basis and essentials for safe operations, without addressing the more detailed calculation aspects covered in Process Safety Engineering PS-4.
You Will Learn:
How To:
  • Identify the systems and processes required to enhance process safety in a high hazard installation
  • Identify and choose appropriate techniques and tools to qualitatively assess process hazards
  • Determine appropriate risk reduction strategies and identify effective risk reduction measures to prevent, control, and mitigate process safety risk
  • Recognize and develop systems to manage Process Safety in operations through operating procedures and operating limits, ensuring plant integrity through maintenance and inspection
  • Use a management of change process to minimize risk of change
  • Identify and monitor key performance measures and verifications to maintain and improve safety performance
Course Content:
  • Business context for Process Safety
  • Risk assessment (hazard identification, hazard scenarios, consequence and likelihood analysis, and risk analysis and tools and techniques)
  • Risk reduction measures (barriers)
  • Management of process safety in operations (operating procedures, design and operating limits, human factors, inspection and maintenance, and emergency response)
  • Management of change
  • Learning from previous incidents and near misses
  • Self-verification and measurement
  • Process safety key performance indicators
  • Management review and auditing
  • Process safety leadership (governance and culture)
Instructors:

MR. COLIN WATSON has over 41 years' broad experience in petrochemicals, primarily in engineering support and process safety management. He joined PetroSkills as an instructor in 2014. His experience includes assignments in technical support, operations, turnarounds, project execution and HSE and engineering management. From 2006 he has worked as an independent Engineering and Process Safety Consultant working with oil and gas clients. He has worked primarily with BP to design, develop and facilitate their global Process Safety training and awareness programs both for engineering and operations teams. In a varied 28-year career in BP he latterly worked to develop strategic structures and governance systems to manage Process Safety and Integrity Management for the BP Grangemouth Complex and the European BP Chemicals Sites. His operations experience providing technical support and engineering management extends across a variety of petrochemical and refining processes. He holds a BSc in Engineering Science (Mechanical) from Edinburgh University (1978) and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.


In-House Course Presentations
All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
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