Process Safety Management (PSM) in Oil & Gas Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the fundamental principles of Process Safety Management and distinguish process safety risks from conventional occupational safety risks within oil and gas operations.
• Assess major accident hazards associated with hydrocarbons, hazardous substances, high-pressure systems, process units, storage facilities, pipelines, and critical operating activities.
• Develop practical approaches for managing process safety information, operating procedures, equipment data, chemical information, and critical process documentation.
• Apply structured process hazard analysis techniques to identify credible accident scenarios, initiating events, consequences, safeguards, and risk controls.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of critical process safety barriers and identify weaknesses that could contribute to loss of containment or major accident events.
• Strengthen mechanical integrity practices covering inspection, testing, maintenance, reliability, critical equipment, and safety-critical elements.
• Apply Management of Change principles to evaluate the process safety implications of technical, operational, organizational, and procedural changes.
• Assess the effectiveness of permit-to-work, isolation, lockout and tagout, hot work, confined space, and simultaneous operations controls.
• Improve contractor and operational workforce management by strengthening competency, communication, supervision, and process safety responsibilities.
• Evaluate process safety incidents and near misses using structured investigation methodologies to identify underlying and systemic causes.
• Design practical process safety performance indicators that distinguish leading indicators from lagging indicators and support proactive risk management.
• Develop a practical PSM improvement action plan addressing identified gaps in process safety governance, operational control, asset integrity, and major accident prevention by the end of the course.

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Learning Outcomes

• Identify major process safety hazards and distinguish them from personal occupational safety hazards in oil and gas facilities.
• Assess credible major accident scenarios involving fire, explosion, toxic exposure, loss of containment, and hazardous energy release.
• Review and organize process safety information required to support safe operation, maintenance, engineering, and risk assessment.
• Apply process hazard analysis principles to evaluate hazards, initiating events, consequences, safeguards, and risk reduction measures.
• Evaluate safety-critical barriers and determine whether existing controls are capable of preventing or mitigating major accident scenarios.
• Assess mechanical integrity arrangements for pressure equipment, pipelines, storage systems, rotating equipment, instrumentation, and other safety-critical assets.
• Apply Management of Change processes to identify and control risks arising from modifications to equipment, processes, technology, procedures, and organizational arrangements.
• Evaluate permit-to-work and energy isolation practices and identify opportunities to strengthen control of high-risk maintenance and operating activities.
• Analyze process safety incidents, near misses, and loss-of-containment events to identify immediate, underlying, and systemic causes.
• Develop meaningful leading and lagging process safety indicators for monitoring organizational performance and control effectiveness.
• Evaluate contractor management and workforce competency arrangements from a process safety perspective.
• Prepare a practical process safety improvement plan that prioritizes actions according to risk, operational significance, and organizational capability.

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