Shutdown & Turnaround Management Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the shutdown and turnaround lifecycle and relate each phase to safety, reliability, operational continuity, quality, and cost-control requirements during the course.
• Assess shutdown scope according to asset criticality, operational risk, statutory requirements, reliability needs, budget, and business impact.
• Develop a clear turnaround organization structure that defines roles, responsibilities, governance, decision rights, communication, and escalation routes.
• Design an integrated turnaround plan covering scope, schedule, resources, materials, contractors, quality, risk, and restart readiness.
• Apply scope management principles to distinguish mandatory, critical, corrective, improvement, and emergent work before execution.
• Evaluate the readiness of labour, specialist services, materials, critical spares, tools, equipment, and contractor support before shutdown commencement.
• Develop an integrated schedule that identifies critical paths, dependencies, milestones, resource constraints, and opportunities to reduce turnaround duration.
• Implement practical controls for daily progress, productivity, safety, quality, costs, changes, and schedule performance during execution.
• Improve coordination among operations, maintenance, engineering, procurement, supply chain, contractors, and management through structured communication processes.
• Apply risk management and contingency planning methods to identify critical turnaround risks, controls, responsibilities, and response actions.
• Assess restart readiness through technical, operational, safety, quality, and handover verification activities.
• Develop a time-bound action plan for improving shutdown and turnaround management practices after the course.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain the importance of shutdown and turnaround management in supporting process safety, asset reliability, operational continuity, compliance, and lifecycle performance.
• Identify the key phases of a shutdown and turnaround lifecycle, from early planning to execution, restart, closeout, and lessons learned.
• Assess and prioritize turnaround scope according to risk, criticality, statutory obligations, technical condition, and operational value.
• Develop an organizational structure for turnaround management that clarifies governance, authority, accountability, communication, and escalation.
• Prepare an initial resource plan covering workforce requirements, contractors, specialist services, equipment, materials, and critical spares.
• Develop an integrated schedule that identifies activities, dependencies, milestones, critical paths, constraints, and monitoring requirements.
• Apply practical methods for controlling scope changes, schedule deviations, costs, productivity, quality, and emerging work.
• Use performance indicators to monitor safety, work progress, schedule adherence, productivity, quality, budget performance, and risk exposure.
• Manage interfaces and daily coordination among operations, maintenance, engineering, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare a turnaround risk register and contingency plan with clear controls, owners, response actions, and escalation mechanisms.
• Assess asset readiness for restart using technical, operational, safety, quality, testing, and handover requirements.
• Develop an actionable improvement plan for strengthening turnaround planning, execution, review, and organizational learning.

Course Outline