Personal Development
Three classroom or remote training days
Providing 2.4 CEU (Continuing Education Units) or 24 PDH (Professional Development Hours)
Course Overview
This 3-day PHA / HAZOP course is designed to deliver expert instruction on how to successfully plan and execute Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) studies efficiently and effectively.
This includes understanding the principles behind each of the major PHA methods (HAZOP, What-if?, Checklist, FMEA), learning how to deal with challenging personalities within the PHA team and how to avoid common pitfalls and traps so your PHA studies run smoothly.
Course Benefits
Provide knowledge and skills to prepare the participants to be able to effective prepare and facilitate (lead) PHA’s within their organization.
In the afternoon of Day 2 and for Day 3, you will form a study team with other participants and take turns leading the team through “practice” HAZOP and What-if sessions.
The instructor will coach you and provide feedback on your performance. Participants will have the opportunity to prepare the drawings, populate the software and facilitate the studies using drawings. By the end of the exercises students will be able to facilitate their own HAZOP and What if sessions.
Prerequisites or Related Courses
It is recommended that the following courses be completed prior to attending this course.
- P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) and Engineering Drawings Interpretation
Who Should Attend
- Supervisors, managers and engineers responsible for PHA studies
- PHA / HAZOP Team Leaders & scribes
- Health & Safety / HSE professionals
- Process Safety Management (PSM) / Loss Management specialists
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.
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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.
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Flexible delivery. In-person in Calgary, in-person on your site, online live, or online on-demand.
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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.
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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.
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Professional development credits. Participants earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or Professional Development Hours (PDHs) to support ongoing professional certification and career development.
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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.