Process and ChemicalHAZOP and LOPA in Process Plants
A hazard and operability study is the main systematic defence against a major accident, and its quality depends almost entirely on how the session is run. This course covers running one properly. Delegates work through node selection, guide words and deviations, and the discipline of recording a cause, a consequence and a safeguard that are actually distinct from one another. Layer of protection analysis follows, taking the qualitative findings and testing whether the protection actually reduces risk to the tolerable level, including initiating event frequency, independent protection layers and the derivation of a required safety integrity level. The course covers facilitation, since the commonest failure is a session that agrees too quickly.
Course objectives
- Select nodes and apply guide words to generate meaningful deviations
- Record causes, consequences and safeguards that are genuinely distinct
- Facilitate a study team without letting it agree too quickly
- Apply layer of protection analysis to a qualitative finding
- Estimate initiating event frequency and credit independent protection layers
- Derive a required safety integrity level and understand what it commits you to
- Track actions to closure and revalidate a study
Who should attend
- Process safety engineers and specialists
- Process and operations engineers
- Instrumentation and control engineers
- HSE professionals in high hazard industries
- Study leaders and facilitators
Course outline
- 01Why systematic hazard study, and what it replaces
- 02Node selection and study preparation
- 03Guide words, deviations and meaningful causes
- 04Consequences and existing safeguards
- 05Facilitating a team that wants to agree quickly
- 06Layer of protection analysis and tolerable risk
- 07Initiating events and independent protection layers
- 08Safety integrity levels and what they commit you to
- 09Action tracking, closure and revalidation
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 to 25 September 2026 | Online | Online | R8,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 26 to 30 October 2026 | Maputo, Mozambique | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | Register Now |
| 16 to 20 November 2026 | Pretoria, South Africa | Classroom | R19,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 1 to 5 February 2027 | Harare, Zimbabwe | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | Register Now |
| 8 to 12 March 2027 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R19,950 per delegate | Register Now |