HAZOP

By the end of the course all trainees should be able to:

• Understand why carrying out a workplace risk assessment is essential for improving health and safety.
• Understand the types of accidents, injuries and ill health that may occur as a result of failing to manage health and safety.
• Discuss the principles and application of the systematic approach to the management of workplace hazard
• Distinguish between hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
• Use a simple risk assessment technique to priorities hazards for remedial action, discuss and provide examples of the application of

the hierarchy of control

• Describe the concepts of consequences, likelihood and exposure
• Discuss the role of control in risk assessment
• Understand each of the five key steps of the risk assessment process.
• Feel confident to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the workplace

Day 1
Introduction to Risk Assessment

• Programme introduction: delegate and tutor introductions; programme objectives
• Introduction to HSE Management Systems
• Integrating risk assessment within Risk Management
• Introduction to hazards identification and analysis techniques
• Benefits of Hazard Identification.
• Sources of hazards at hazards at the workplace.
• Techniques for hazard identification and analysis – HAZOP

Day 2
Hazard and Operability Studies ‘HAZOP’

• • Definition of risks, issues and associated principles
  • Hazard categories

o Physical
o Mechanical
o Electrical
o Fire/Explosion
o High /low Temperature Exposure
o Toxic/Carcinogenic Chemicals Exposure
o Corrosive/Reactive/Radioactive Chemicals Exposure

• Syndicate exercise: Working in small groups
• Planning and implementing within risk management system

Day 3
Analysis of the consequences

• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis ‘FMEA’
• Failures of Permit-to-work systems: video presentation on Piper Alpha
• Analysis of the consequences- mechanics of fire, explosion and toxic releases
• Role of Fault Tree Analysis to identify how accidents can happen
• Group exercise on FTA

Day 4
Risk assessment

• Introduction to human factors and human error
• Risk Assessment Steps
• Introduction to quantitative and qualitative risk assessment
• Identify task and associated hazards
• Identify who might be harmed and how
• Evaluating likelihood and severity and decide on precautions
• Integrating human factor within HSE management system – The Bhopal disaster

Day 5
Tree Analysis and Hierarchy of risk control

• The role of Event Tree Analysis in scenario development
• The role of Fault Tree Analysis for multi-causation analysis
• Applications for ETA and FTA
• Hierarchy of risk controls for eliminating/ controlling hazards at workplace
• As Low As reasonably Practicable (ALARP) principle
• Record the findings
• Review risk assessment when necessary
• Case Study: Create Risk Assessment.

This course is suited for

• Production, project, process, mechanical, control, maintenance and HSE personnel
• All personnel involved in implementing the Company’s HSE Management System

Participants will learn by active participation during the programme through the use of exercises,
syndicate and group discussion, training videos.

Core Certificate for each attendee