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About This Course:
The risk review techniques most popular for initial PHAs of entire units or of large projects, MOC reviews, and PHA revalidations are hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis and what-if/checklist. Both of these techniques facilitate systematic, imaginative searches for process hazards and potential operational difficulties. In this course, you will also learn how to use the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) method and you will learn how to use checklists of hazards to supplement your brainstorming analyses. You will learn the best situations and circumstances to use each technique. You will lead and participate in several analyses to familiarize yourself with each technique.
One complete course-day focuses on human factors issues and how to analyze for human errors that can occur in step-by-step procedures; this is the most important part of any risk review. You will learn the original form of the HAZOP and what-if/checklist techniques so you can effectively analyze procedures (startup, shutdown, normal batch operation, emergency operation, etc.) for the hazards of not performing a step as specified.
This course is the only PHA/HAZOP Leadership course that teaches how to properly analyze startup, shutdown, and maintenance modes of operation. US OSHA is increasing its enforcement of this necessary part of a compliant PHA. See the FREE paper below that was authored by Mike Marshal, US OSHA, Enforcement, and William Bridges of PII:
This course has a 15:1 or lower student-to-instructor ratio for necessary coaching needed during the many workshops.
This course is taught by expert PHA leaders who, collectively, have been and currently are involved in hundreds of PHAs.
Typical Course Candidates:
- Process engineer or project engineer
- Operations supervisor
- PSM coordinator
- E, H, & S Managers & Engineers
What Participants Will Learn:
- How to perform a PHA to meet PSM requirements for initial PHAs and management of change analyses including these critical elements:
- Preparing for the PHA
- Scoping the PHA
- Collecting information
- Selecting the team
- Leading a meeting
- Documenting results
- How to analyze operating procedures for critical accident scenarios
- How and when to apply HAZOP, FMEA, and/or what-if/checklist analyses methods to any process system in any industry such as chemical, petroleum, pulp and paper, explosives, mining, iron and steel, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products
- Experience via realistic workshops
Take Home:
- A CD containing a copy of hazard evaluation software and manual (license not included; demo works for 15 days; a license can be obtained from separately)
- Blank PHA analysis forms, generic PHA report, and a spreadsheet for estimating the labor and time requirements for doing a PHA
- Electronic (PDF) copy of course notebook
- A copy of the course notes and problem solutions
- A Certificate of Completion
- 2.7/3.1 CEUs and 2.7/3.1 COCs
Instructors: Revonda Tew or William Bridges
 Revonda has 25 years experience in the chemical industry, including process development, process engineering, and process safety management and evaluation. She holds one US patent. Revonda has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a MBA from the University of North Carolinas Kenan-Flagler Business School. The first 8 years of her career was hands-on in the chemical industry. In the early 1990s Revonda led the PSM compliance initiative at a large chemical manufacturing facility, authoring policies and procedures to address industry, regulatory, and company standards, as well as managing their implementation. She was a lead the corporate team composed of representatives from 11 sites that developed the corporate program and training for implementation of the Process Safety Code (as part of Responsible Care). Revonda has been involved with plant emergency response teams as a responder and an incident command post team member.
She has significant hands-on experience having participated in, led and documented about 100 PHAs, numerous management of change (MOC) risk reviews, performed many MOC approvals, participated or led several investigations, and participated or led more than 30 PSM compliance audits and PSM assessments. She has also developed customized training materials for various topics, including MOC, PHA leadership, PSM, PSM auditing, and incident investigation, and she is a lead instructor for these topics. For the past 12 years of her career, she has been a consultant to the chemical industry with PII, were she has provided PSM-related and PHA/HAZOP training and consulting. She has trained more than 2000 staff in PSM implementation and daily is involved in helping clients implement PSM.
 Bill is President of the Process Improvement Institute (PII). He has over 35 years of experience, including more than 25 in senior management and senior PSM advisory roles. He is considered one of the leading authorities on process safety engineering, risk management, and human error prevention. He has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron (USA) and he has over 14 years of hands-on chemical industry experience in process operation, process engineering, process and product development, management and safety evaluation, and operations management. He holds 10 US patents, several of which are for products and processes that are in full, profitable production today. One factor that makes Mr. Bridges such a sought after consultant and instructor is his wealth of hands-on experience in chemical processing and in implementing PSM in the chemical industry. His last position in the chemical industry was as a chemical plant manager..
Bill has helped many companies in the petroleum, petrochemical, plastic and chemical process industries develop, implement and assess PSM and risk management programs. These programs include consideration of human factors to prevent human error. Bill has written 30+ articles on how to prevent human error and how to implement PSM effectively. Bill has taught PSM related courses, including process hazard analysis/HAZOP leadership, incident investigation/RCA, and management of change (MOC) since 1987. He is an instructor for many different courses for PII, and has trained more than 5000 in PSM-related and risk analysis-related topics. He has trained more than 3000 PHA (HAZOP/What-if) leaders over the past 16 years of teaching this topic. And he has led over 100 unit-wide PHAs. Bill is also one of the co-inventors of LOPA and co-authored the original LOPA book and 7 other books as well.
 Bill Bridges and Revonda Tew co-authored the definitive textbook on this topic by AIChE, Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, 2nd edition, 1991 (pictured here).
Other FREE Resources from PII Related to PHA and HAZOP:
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