P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) and Engineering Drawings Interpretation

Teaches participants how to read and interpret documentation critical to the safe day-to-day operation of facilities.

Personal Development

Two classroom or remote training days
Providing 1.6 CEU (Continuing Education Units) or 16 PDH (Professional Development Hours)

Course Overview 

To effectively assess emergency situations and evaluate safety, environmental and regulatory compliance issues, accurate drawings – and the ability to interpret them – are crucial.

This combination of classroom instruction and workshop training exercises focuses on critical documentation essential to the safe day-to-day operation of facilities, including:

  • P&ID and PFD
  • Plot Plan
  • Electrical Area Classification
  • Piping Drawing and Isometric Drawing
  • Line List and Tie-In List
  • Shutdown Keys

Course Benefits

  • Accurate drawings and the ability to read and understand these drawings are a requirement for the analysis of emergency situations and the assessment of safety, environmental and regulatory compliance issues such as Process Hazards Analysis / HAZOP studies. 
  • This training course will show how facilities relate to the drawings so that participants can focus on improvements.
  • It will also provide engineers dealing with Management of Change the ability to speak the same language as the operators of the facilities.
  • It will form the foundation for base level learning and will provide consistent and improved communications between staff.
  • It will provide improvement in quality and consistency which will enhance the other processes that rely on the P&ID drawings.

Prerequisites or Related Courses

There are no prerequisites for this training course. However this course lays the foundation for:

  • PH & RA ENG TÜV (Rheinland) Certificate
  • PHA / HAZOP Facilitation

Who Should Attend

This course focuses on engineering drawings typically used in the chemical and process industries by engineers and technologists in the design phase and by operations and maintenance staff once facilities are up and running.

It is suitable for employees, managers, officers of corporations and anyone else with an interest in how these drawings should be created, maintained and used in assessing emergency situations and regulatory compliance issues.

  • Facilities, Operations and Maintenance Professionals
  • Engineers In Training (EITs)
  • I & C, Mechanical Engineers and Technologists
  • Professionals responsible for Process Hazards Analysis / HAZOP / Safeguarding studies.
  • Health & Safety / HSE Professionals

Why Choose Risk Alive?

Risk Alive is a specialized process safety firm providing expert PHA facilitation services, industry-leading training, along with the Risk Alive Platform and Risk Intelligence Companion software solutions.

  • Senior facilitators with 30+ years of active field experience. Most of our instructors are practicing process safety professionals with decades of hands-on expertise. You learn through real case studies, live examples, and hands-on facilitation exercises drawn from situations our facilitators have actually encountered - the conflicts, the missing information, the design errors caught at the last minute.

  • Flexible delivery. In-person in Calgary, in-person on your site, online live, or online on-demand.

  • Tailored to your processes, units, and data. For onsite and private sessions, Risk Alive can customize training content to your company's specific processes, units, and operational data, so your team learns on material that reflects their real working environment.

  • End-to-end partnership. From senior-led PHA/HAZOP facilitation services, to training your internal team, to equipping them with the analytics and AI software, Risk Alive supports the full process safety competency journey.

  • Professional development credits. Participants earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Professional Development Hours (PDHs) to support ongoing professional certification and career development.

  • Government grant eligibility. Many participants and companies qualify for government training grants that can help offset course costs. Contact us to learn which programs may apply to you.

  • Complimentary software access. Every course graduate will be given access to our Risk Intelligence Companion on our beta environment which allows you to search through anonymized industry PHA data – causes, consequences, safeguards, and risk rankings from real studies.

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