Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Training Course

Name: Advanced Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Training Course
Availability: InStock

Lead structured process hazard analysis, facilitate HAZOP studies, challenge safeguards, and close recommendations with auditable evidence.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Manama, Vienna, Muscat, Madrid, Kuwait, Bali and more
Next session: 1 – 5 November 2026, Manama
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Training Course is a one-week advanced course for process safety engineers, HSE managers, occupational safety professionals, operations leaders, risk analysts, and supervisors who leave with a Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Study Portfolio. Participants connect occupational safety responsibilities with process hazard analysis, HAZOP study facilitation, safeguard evaluation, human factors, and recommendation tracking. The course applies OSHA process safety management requirements as a regulatory reference and IEC 61882 HAZOP guidance as a methodological reference; it does not provide OSHA certification, approval, or endorsement. Agile Leaders Training Center presents HAZOP as a disciplined team study rather than a checklist exercise.

Who Should Attend

Process safety engineers responsible for process hazard analysis
HSE and occupational safety managers working with high-hazard operations
Risk analysts who assess deviations, consequences, and safeguards
Operations and maintenance leaders who contribute process knowledge to studies
Supervisors and technical specialists preparing to lead or support HAZOP sessions

The course assumes familiarity with industrial operations, safety risk assessment, and process documentation. It excludes basic workplace inspection, detailed quantitative risk assessment, safety integrity level verification, and any claim of regulator-issued certification.

Departments and Industries

The course supports functions and industries that manage hazardous processes and need auditable risk-analysis decisions.

Process safety, occupational safety, HSE, and enterprise risk functions
Operations, engineering, maintenance, projects, and technical assurance teams
Oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, energy, and utilities organizations
Pharmaceutical, food processing, mining, and industrial manufacturing facilities
Consultancies and public organizations overseeing process-risk governance

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Distinguish occupational hazards from process-safety scenarios and connect their controls
Define the scope, boundaries, nodes, design intent, and team roles for a HAZOP study
Apply guide words and parameters to identify credible process deviations
Develop traceable cause, consequence, safeguard, and recommendation records
Evaluate safeguard independence, human factors, and action quality
Plan recommendation tracking, change control, revalidation, and study closeout

Course Agenda

Day 1: Occupational Safety and Process Risk Context

Occupational Hazard and Process-Safety Scenario Boundary Map
OSHA Process Safety Management PHA Requirement Matrix
High-Hazard Process Information Readiness Checklist
Incident, Human-Factor, and Operating-History Evidence Review
Process Hazard Analysis Method Selection Guide

Day 2: HAZOP Definition and Preparation

IEC 61882 HAZOP Study Lifecycle Map
Study Terms of Reference and Scope Charter
Process Node and Design-Intent Definition Worksheet
Multidisciplinary Team Role and Competence Matrix
P&ID, Procedure, and Process-Data Readiness Review

Day 3: Guideword Examination and Scenario Development

Guideword and Process-Parameter Application Matrix
Deviation, Cause, and Consequence Reasoning Chain
Existing Safeguard Evidence Register
Human Action and Organizational-Factor Prompt Set
HAZOP Study Facilitation and Session-Control Protocol

Day 4: Safeguards, Recommendations, and Risk Decisions

Safeguard Function and Independence Challenge Guide
Consequence Severity and Scenario-Priority Matrix
Recommendation Necessity and Quality Test
Action Owner, Due Date, and Resolution Register
Management of Change and Residual-Risk Decision Route

Day 5: HAZOP Governance and Applied Practice

Exercise: Node Definition and Design-Intent Review
Exercise: Facilitated Guideword Examination
Exercise: Safeguard and Recommendation Challenge
Exercise: Action Closeout and Revalidation Planning
Capstone Exercise: Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Study Portfolio

Practical Exercises

Participants work through suggested industrial scenarios that require clear evidence, disciplined facilitation, and defensible decisions.

Suggested activity: separate occupational exposures from loss-of-containment process scenarios.
Suggested activity: prepare nodes and design intent from a simplified process diagram.
Suggested activity: conduct a guideword examination and record deviations, causes, and consequences.
Suggested activity: challenge safeguards and rewrite weak recommendations into trackable actions.

FAQs

What is process hazard analysis and how does HAZOP support it?

Process hazard analysis is a systematic evaluation of process hazards and failure scenarios. HAZOP supports it by applying guide words to design intent and identifying deviations, causes, consequences, safeguards, and required actions.

Does this course provide OSHA certification?

No. The course uses OSHA process safety management requirements as an authoritative reference but does not provide OSHA certification, approval, accreditation, or endorsement.

What does HAZOP study facilitation require?

HAZOP study facilitation requires a defined scope, prepared process information, competent multidisciplinary participation, consistent guideword use, neutral questioning, clear records, and disciplined time management.

How are safeguards evaluated during a HAZOP study?

Safeguards are evaluated for their documented function, relevance to the scenario, reliability evidence, independence, human dependence, and vulnerability to common causes or operating conditions.

What happens after recommendations are issued?

Recommendation tracking assigns ownership, due dates, evidence requirements, risk decisions, change controls, and verification. Closeout confirms that actions address the recorded scenario without introducing unmanaged changes.

Conclusion

The course integrates occupational safety context, process hazard analysis, HAZOP preparation, guideword examination, safeguard evaluation, and recommendation tracking. Participants take back a Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Study Portfolio containing charters, node sheets, session records, decision matrices, and an action register. This portfolio turns workshop discussion into traceable process-risk decisions and verified follow-up.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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London	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
New York	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Rome	Week 36, 2027 6 – 10 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Manama	Week 36, 2027 12 – 16 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Paris	Week 37, 2027 13 – 17 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Barcelona	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Porto	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Chicago	Week 39, 2027 3 – 7 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Amsterdam	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
London	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Milan	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tashkent	Week 43, 2027 31 October – 4 November 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Kuala Lumpur	Week 44, 2027 1 – 5 November 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200

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Process Hazard Analysis and HAZOP Training Course