HAZOP Study Management Training Course

A HAZOP is a disciplined conversation, and its quality depends almost entirely on how it is run. The common failures are procedural rather than technical: nodes drawn too large to be examined, a team without the operator who actually starts the plant, a chairman who supplies the answer, and a register of actions still open at the next study. This week is about the management of the study rather than the theory of the method, and delegates work from real drawings, including their own where they can bring them.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Decide when a HAZOP is the right method and when another technique answers the question better.
• Prepare a study so the team is not doing preparation in the room.
• Chair a session that examines a deviation instead of accepting the first answer.
• Record a finding so it is still intelligible to somebody who was not there.
• Close out an action register and evidence that the risk actually changed.

Process safety engineers and HSE managers who commission or chair studies, process and operations engineers who sit on teams, and project engineers responsible for closing out the actions.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A study plan with nodes, team composition and schedule for one of the delegate's own systems.
• A worked node from a real drawing, recorded in full.
• A close out procedure for the action register, with ownership and verification defined.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.