Training

PHA leaders are required to be trained and qualified to lead PHA teams and initiatives. PHA is the cornerstone of an organization's operational risk management program and integral to occupational health and safety in process industries. PHA is performed throughout the life of a process from conception to post-decommissioning. It enables the execution of safe and compliant processes with the goal of zero harm. This four-day course is designed to train you on a wide range of qualitative PHA risk assessment techniques to comply with process safety regulations and standards, become competent and effective facilitators, become proficient with IHS software, and enable you to design and develop customized PHA solutions for your company's risk best practices.

Training Dates

• August 13-16, 2013
• November 5-8, 2013

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups.

How Will You Benefit?  

This PHA Leadership course will empower you, and enable your organization through you, to identify, analyze, mitigate and monitor risks and hazards across the company. You will use state of the art risk management systems from IHS for hands-on exercises and facilitation practice under guidance of experienced professional instructors. You will learn tips and tricks to generate high quality risk studies in efficient and effective ways.

Prerequisite

It is mandatory that you have either technical background and/or experience in the oil, gas, chemicals, power, mining, pharmaceuticals, biotech or other process industries.

Who Should Attend?

This course provides practical training for the novice and refresher training for the seasoned professionals, including but not limited to:

Course Content

Day 1 - Basic PHA Methodology & Workshop

Concepts of risk and safety, industrial incidents and lessons learned, regulations and standards, various PHA techniques including HAZOP, What If, FMEA, and PrHA, revalidation of PHAs, introduction to management of change, human factors in industrial safety and PHA workshop using IHS software.

Day 2 - Advanced PHA Methodology Concepts & Workshop

Concepts of PHA team leadership, how to conduct a facilitation, role of a PHA leader, techniques for efficient and effective facilitations, how to create nodes and PHA project management, optimization of PHA team performance, what is a high-quality PHA and PHA workshop using IHS software.

Day 3 - Software End User

IHS software walk-through and navigation, file management, walkthrough of preformatted industry standard PHA templates, comprehensive study and practice of end-user functions, hands-on end-user functions exercises.

Day 4 - Software Advanced User

Introduction to IHS software template configuration engine, walk-through of a PHA template creation from scratch and hands-on exercises, comprehensive study of advanced user functions and template user interface layout design.

What do you do now beyond your HAZOP or PHA study? If you find that the existing safeguards in a risk scenario are not enough to mitigate the risk to an acceptable level then what options do you have? Do you have to rely on subjective brainstorming sessions to determine additional safeguards? How confident are you of the integrity of your existing safeguards in your process? This course introduces the semi-quantitative risk analysis methodology called layer of protection analysis or LOPA that will help you to further analyze the existing safeguards from your HAZOP, in the form of layers of protection against an identified hazard in an objective and systematic way. When safety alarms, safety procedures, and physical safety devices are insufficient protection, safety instrumented systems are implemented as an additional layer of protection. The integrity of safety instrumented functions is further analyzed by SIL analysis for which LOPA is one of the intermediate steps. This course covers HAZOP, LOPA and SIL methodologies per international industry standards.

Training Dates

• August 27-30, 2013
• November 19-22, 2013

How Will You Benefit?

This four-day course will empower you, and enable your organization through you, to identify, analyze, mitigate and monitor risks and hazards across the company, and systematically assess and manage the integrity of the protection layers. You will use state of the art risk management systems for hands-on exercises under the guidance of experienced professional instructors. You will learn how to conduct the HAZOP and LOPA facilitation and perform SIL analysis.

Prerequisite

It is mandatory that you have a technical background and more than two years of experience in the process, oil, gas, chemicals, power, mining, pharmaceutical or other process industries.

Who Should Attend?

This advanced course provides practical training for the novice with a technical background in process engineering and refresher training for the seasoned professionals, including but not limited to:

Course Content

Day 1 - PHA Methodology and Workshop

Concepts of risk and safety, industrial incidents and lessons learned, regulations and standards, HAZOP methodology, terminology and procedures, introduction to management of change, human factors in industrial safety and HAZOP workshop using IHS software.

Day 2 - LOPA and Target SIL Assignment

Introduction to target SIL assignment and LOPA, ALARP, tolerable risks, risk assessment and SIL determination methodologies, concepts of layers of protection, terminology, introduction to LOPA and FTA and hands-on exercises.

Day 3 - Introduction to LOPA

Understanding LOPA, how does LOPA work, procedure, consequence and severity estimation, developing scenarios, initiating events and frequency estimation, IPLs, risk based decisions and workshop using IHS software.

Day 4 - Introduction to SIL Analysis

What is functional safety, regulations and standards, safety life cycle, implementing SIS from process conception to decommissioning, SIL verification methods and hands-on exercises.

Layer of Protective Analysis (LOPA) is a semi-quantitative risk analysis technique. It lies in between a HAZOP and a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) in terms of its rigorousness. LOPA helps to answer the following questions:

• What's the likelihood of undesired events / scenarios?
• What's the risk associated with the scenarios?
• Are there sufficient risk mitigation measures?

This course examines the technique required to carry out a LOPA. The topics in this course include:

• Understanding LOPA
• When LOPA should be used
• LOPA methodology

Course instructors are industry experts from the fields of risk and security management and assessment, engineering principles, design and development, and projects execution.

How Will You Benefit?

This course will be beneficial to you and your organization for the following reasons:

• Participants learn how and when LOPA should be used
• Participants learn how LOPA relates to qualitative Hazard Evaluation (e.g., HAZOP)
• Participants also learn how to use the LOPA technique for SIL evaluation
• The course enhances easy learning, comprehension and success through a step-by-step approach
• Interactive learning and real world examples are used throughout the discussion and interactive workshops
• Instructors use both industry examples and client's own examples

Who Should Attend?

A wide variety of professionals and organizations will benefit from taking the LOPA training course:

• Process safety personnel
• PHA analysts
• Others who need to apply or understand LOPA
• Supervisors and managers responsible for safety instrumented systems

Prerequisite

Previous PHA/HAZOP experience and/or training is a recommended pre-requisite for participants who take this course.

Course Length:

Two days

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups.

Safety Integrity Level (SIL) is a measure of probability to fail on demand (PFD) of the Safety Instrumented System (SIS). SIL is statistical representation of the integrity of the SIS when a process demand occurs. A demand occurs whenever the process reaches the trip condition and causes the SIS to take action.

This course covers the principles around the integrity of the safety-instrumented systems. It also teaches the users the applicability of SIL. There are in depth discussions on SIL targets as per IEC 61511 & ANSI/ISA-S84.01. SIL is used in both ANSI/ISA-S84.01 and IEC 61511 to measure the reliability of SIS. The course could include the incorporation of SIL into your facility/company risk assessment program.

SIL determination methodologies such as Consequence Method, Risk Graph, Layered Risk Matrix, Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) are covered.

Course instructors are industry experts from the fields of risk management and assessment, chemical engineering, engineering design and development, and projects execution.

Course Objective

Participants will learn how to conduct a SIL study the specific requirements of the guidelines laid by ANSI/ISA-S84.01 and IEC 61511, including SIL verification and validation. Also, the participants are provided hands on experience using IHS software for its SIL capabilities.

How Will You Benefit?

This course will be beneficial to you and your organization for the following reasons:

• Participants gain the ability to conduct SIL studies effectively
• The course enhances easy learning, comprehension and success through a step-by-step approach
• Interactive learning and real-world examples are used throughout
• Course features interactive workshops

Who Should Attend?

A wide variety of professionals and organizations will benefit from taking the SIL Methodology training course:

• Health and Safety Professionals
• Supervisors and managers responsible for safety instrumented systems
• Control Engineers
• Project Managers
• Process Engineers

Prerequisite:

Previous PHA/HAZOP experience and/or training is a recommended pre-requisite for participants who take this course.

Can be taken in conjunction with Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) course.

Course Length:

2-4 days

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups. 

Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) provides an estimate of the risks posed as well as enabling risk mitigation methods to be evaluated so that risk can be reduced to acceptable levels. This training course examines the techniques required to quantify risk assessments to both evaluate and minimize risk both internally and externally to the outside community.

The topics covered in the course include:

• Hazard Identification
• Consequence Analysis, including loss of containment calculation, explosion modeling, fire modeling, and dispersion modeling
• Frequency Analysis
• Quantifying Risk, by using techniques such as Probit Analysis

Course Objective:

This course will train your staff in conducting efficient and comprehensive QRAs internally.

How Will You Benefit?

• Participants gain the ability to lead your teams, which carry out your QRAs
• The course enhances easy learning, comprehension and success through a step-by-step approach
• Interactive learning and real world examples are used throughout
• Course features several interactive workshops
• Instructors use both industry examples and client's own examples

Who Should Attend?

• QRA Team Leaders
• Supervisors and Managers
• Team Members
• Engineers
• Others who need to acquire the necessary skills to conduct, manage and produce a QRA study

Course Length:

4 days

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups.

Course content can be chosen from a combination of the two training modules described below. These modules comprise of topics, which will allow the course attendees to develop an understanding of the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Methodology as well as getting them well acquainted with the documentation process, using a documentation tool. Course certificates that indicate the training modules covered are issued to participants who complete this course.

Module One – Methodology Training

Module Two – Software Training

As global competition increases, your customers have more choices and therefore become more focused on receiving the best value at the lowest cost. Competition is one of the key factors in the increased requirements for better quality throughout your business cycle. Not only is your company forced to provide better products and services, but they are under constant pressure to deliver faster from the sales process throughout design, manufacturing, delivery and aftermarket support. FMEA is pivotal to an organization's quality risk management program. Companies that improve quality across the board are the global leaders that will continue to build market share and constantly beat the competition.

Training Dates 

• August 27-30, 2013
• November 26-29, 2013

How Will You Benefit?

This four-day FMEA Leadership course will empower you, and enable your organization through you, to identify, analyze, mitigate and monitor quality risks and hazards across the company. You will use state-of-the-art quality risk management software from IHS for hands-on exercises and facilitation practice under guidance of experienced professional instructors. You will learn tips and tricks to generate high quality FMEA studies in efficient and effective ways.

Prerequisite

It is mandatory that you have either technical background and/or experience in the automotive, aerospace, medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, power, high-tech, semi-conductors, or other discrete manufacturing industries.

Who Should Attend?

This course provides practical training for the novice and refresher training for the seasoned professionals, including but not limited to:

Day 1 - Basic FMEA Methodology & Workshop

Introduction to FMEA, background and history, concepts of risk, overview of risk techniques, standards and regulations, and advanced quality planning, methodology, terminology, procedure, product and process life cycles and types of FMEA, workshop using IHS software.

Day 2 - Advanced FMEA Methodology Concepts & Workshop

FMEA leadership concepts, FMEA facilitation techniques, team leadership, control plans, advanced FMEA topics such as FMECA, FMEA based RCM, and FMEA and Reliability Prediction, and workshop using IHS software.

Day 3 - Software End User

IHS software walkthrough and navigation, file management, walkthrough of preformatted industry standard FMEA templates, comprehensive study and practice of IHS software end-user functions, hands-on IHS software exercises.

Day 4 - Software Advanced User

Introduction to IHS software template configuration engine, walkthrough of a FMEA template creation from scratch and hands-on exercises, comprehensive study of software advanced user functions, template user interface layout design, defining end-user experience.

This course provides a step by step overview of the APQP process as well as reviewing the engineering tools required at each step to translate customer wants and expectations into concern-free end products.

Who Should Attend?

New Product Launch Team Members ie: Management and Technical personnel from Product Design, Program Management, Quality & Manufacturing Engineering, Production Operations, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing.

How Will You Benefit?

• Reduces design / development and production cost.
• Assures team input and buyoff.
• Leads teams to focus on customer satisfaction throughout the entire launch process.

Course Content

• Describes the different phases of the APQP process.
• Identifies the inputs and output deliverables required by various new program team members.
• Learn how to effectively use the applicable tools and when to use them throughout the APQP process.
• Learn the applicable customer requirements as outlined within the APQP manual developed by Daimler Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors and published by the Automotive Industrial Action Group AIAG).

Course Length:

4 days training with workshop

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups. 

This course provides step by step guidance to implement a Reliability Centered Maintenance system in your company. Today's need for economic efficiency, reliability, and reduction of downtime requires that an effective reliability-based preventative maintenance program be implemented based on important factors such as MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) and failure rate.

Who Should Attend?

All personnel required to implement and maintain economical but reliable maintenance programs ie: Production and Maintenance Technicians, Manufacturing Engineers, Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, Skilled Trades, Setup Technicians.

How Will You Benefit?

• Reduces unscheduled down time of equipment.
• Prevents over excessive and / or unnecessary maintenance thereby reducing overall maintenance budget costs.

Learn How To:

• Plan and implement a reliability centered maintenance program.
• Evaluate overall Equipment Effectiveness.
• Use preventive and predictive methods to assess machine condition.
• Analyze the equipment found in a specific process and create maintenance intervals & schedules based on the reliability of that equipment.
• Economically determine the spare part requirements for each piece of equipment to ensure that parts are on hand should a failure or breakdown occur.

Course Length:

2 days

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups. 

This course provides a step-by-step understanding of the FMEA development process and will show how to take full advantage of the features and capabilities within IHS Software.

Who Should Attend?

New product launch team members, such as management and technical personnel from product design, program management, quality & manufacturing engineering and production operations

How Will You Benefit?

Provides common terminology to guide teams through the FMEA development process.

• Identifies potential design, process, and product failures at early stages in the process to allow for applicable actions being taken to prevent high failure costs at launch and throughout the life of the program.
• Provides information on industry best practices in medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Course Outline

• Describes the methodology used to predict potential risks throughout the product and process design stages.
• Learn how to effectively engage team members in the FMEA development process.
• Learn the applicable customer requirements as outlined within standard FMEA guidelines, such as FDA 21 CRF Part 820 QSR (cGMP), ISO 14971, ISO 13485, ISO 9001, EU Directive 2000/70/EC, SAE J1739, ARP 5580, and others.

Course Length:

3 days

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups. 

This course provides a step-by-step methodology to identify both the underlying root causes and the steps necessary to ensure appropriate and adequate preventive actions are taken to prevent recurrence.

How Will You Benefit?

• Ensure time is not wasted by team members chasing falsely identified issues and not addressing the true root cause(s).
• Minimize the response time and failure chargeback costs associated with customer reported incidents.
• Provide verified and validated confirmation that concerns have been fully addressed and that appropriate actions have been taken to prevent the issue and other potential similar issues from ever occurring again.

Course Content

• Learn the methodologies employed to ignite your company team into accurately understanding the problem, provide fast responsive interim corrective actions, reinforce customer confidence, ensure the real issues are being addressed and that cost effective permanent actions have been validated and implemented to ensure prevention of this and/or other similar concerns in the future.
• The methodologies taught in this course are applicable to any organization experiencing either internal and or external customer related concerns.
• Case studies will be used during the course to provide practical application experience related to the methodologies being taught.

Course Length:

2 days training or 3 days with workshop

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups. 

Learn how to improve process capacity and reduce costs through lead time and non-value added activity reduction, workplace organization, standardized operations and implementation of visual aids.

How Will You Benefit?

• Reduce and/or eliminate waste.
• Reduce manufacturing and service-related costs.
• Improve throughput.
• Support 5S programs

Course Length:

3 days with workshop

Please note that courses may be canceled 2 weeks before the start date if there are not enough signups.