Course Overview
The goal of this course is to develop a basic understanding of the requirements for a
Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and the techniques used to conduct such an analysis.
Participants will collaborate in small groups to analyze scenarios using incident videos and
case studies. They will use critical thinking skills to predict potential problems.
This training is designed to help people learn how to select and apply Risk Identification
skills in Management of Change (MOC) reviews, Design Reviews, Recommendation
Management, JSA/JHA Activities, Permit Writing, or any other area where safety needs to
be integrated into the facility tasks.
Learning Outcome
In order to accelerate skill development, this course features a problem-based learning
approach that provides a collaborative job focused experience. Participants will practice
completing parts of the PHA including hazard identification, consequence analysis and
hazard evaluation, risk analysis, and development of recommendations; identify and apply
procedural requirements to potential job-related safety hazards; and use critical thinking
to compare requirements to actual documented hazards.
They will collaboratively build a personal compilation of recommendations to apply back at
work; transfer diagnostic strategies to job-related decisions; and demonstrate an
understanding of the material in order to participate as a member of the PHA team.
Course Content
- Planning and Preparing for a PHA – This module covers how to select team
- members, train them, and develop a charter.
- Hazard Identification – Participants will identify toxic, flammable, explosive,
- reactive, and mechanical hazards.
- Consequence Analysis -They will also uncover the direct impact of potentially
- hazardous events.
- Determine Risk Using consequence and frequency, the risk of an event will be
- estimated during this module.
- Identify Risk Mitigation Needs
- Unconscious Skills – Using Process Hazard Analysis in your everyday life
- PHA Regulatory Requirements
- Documentation (PSI) Requirements for PHA Studies
- Preparing for and Organizing PHA Studies
- Being the “Knowledgeable” one
- Selecting/preparing a team
- Developing/selecting/using a good Risk Matrix
- Selection of the correct PHA Methods
- Checklist
- What-If
- HAZOP / LOPA
- FMEA (application not detailed in this course)
- Fault Tree Analysis (application not detailed in this course)
- Human Factors and Facility Siting in the PHA
- Noding (Subdividing) the Process for Study
- Identifying Deviations
- Understanding LOPA
- Writing useful Recommendations
- PHA Report Preparation
- Leadership Skills for Managing the Team
The course runs for 4 days, and exam is conducted on the last day of the course
or the next day.
The assessment will be multiple choice exam paper (closed book) and PHA
Project to be submitted no later than 3 weeks after the course completion
date.
The course can be delivered in a classroom situation or online
Delegate Category
Facilitators, Operators, and Maintenance Professionals, Engineers and/or Engineers In
Training (EITs), Managers, I & C, Mechanical Engineers and Technologists, Safety
Professionals responsible for Process Hazards Analysis/HAZOP/ Safeguarding studies.
And Anyone interested in expanding their knowledge on process safety