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HSE Risk Management in Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industries

Who should attend: 
 
  • People with responsibility for carrying out risk assessments
  • Health, Safety, Environment Staff / Professionals
  • Senior managers, Managers, Supervisors and Team Leaders
  • Occupational Health, Medicals Staff / Professionals
  • Project, Engineering, Technical, Maintenance, Operations, Exploration & Production, Human Resources, Procurement and all those who are responsible for HSE and Crisis Management
  • Security and Fire & Safety Inspectors, Superintendents, Co-ordinators
  • Staff Representatives and Union Leaders
  • Consultants, Legal Professionals, Advisers, Contractors and Subcontractors
  • Government and Regulatory Bodies Officials and policy makers
4 days
Course aims: 
  • This programme is designed to provide participants with good understanding of the importance and benefits of risk assessment in a health safety environment management system including safety assessment and risks involved in oil & gas industries.
  • It will give participants a practical understanding of the applications of risk assessment in hazardous workplace including, the cause and effects, fault analysis and investigations process and techniques.
  • The programme will enable participants to achieve required levels of skills and competency in identifying work hazards as well as establishing preventative and necessary corrective measure and systems.
  • The programme will also assist participants to implement a world-class behavioural culture of risk management to improve production and reduce accidents
Course outline: 
  • Introduction and principles of risk assessment
  • The Role of Risk assessment within Management System
  • Essential elements of risk management process and procedures
  • Legislation governing risk assessments
  • Employers legal obligations
  • Risks associated within the oil & gas industries and the past disaster and learning curves
  • Semi-quantitative criteria for tolerability of risk
  • Conducting semi-quantitative risk assessment
  • Risk assessment techniques - equipment based and task based approaches
  • Fire and chemical hazards identification and analysis
  • Machinery hazard identification and analysis techniques: human error and accident causation (latent and active errors)
  • Workplace risk assessment and safe systems of work
  • Safe work practice
  • Multi-causal catalysts, events and outcomes
  • Case effect and fault tree analysis as a deductive technique for the analysis of accident causation
  • Analysis of high potential accidents
  • Techniques of accident investigation, analysis and reporting
  • Environmental risk assessment
  • The risk pathway
  • Prioritizing and targeting corrective / preventative measures
  • Risk control and reduction strategies
  • Recording and documentation
  • Implement, monitor and review action plans
  • Human factors – human error, safety culture and behaviour
  • Procedures, responsibilities and competencies