Learn to Lead PHA & HAZOP Studies with Confidence

PHA/HAZOP Facilitation Course Overview

What separates a great PHA/HAZOP facilitator from an average one? In this Risk Alive webinar, experienced process safety expert Bryce Boehmer shares the hard-won lessons from a 30+ year career facilitating over 4,000 Process Hazard Analyses across oil & gas, pipelines, nuclear, chemical, pulp & paper, and offshore drilling operations worldwide.

If you are preparing to lead your first HAZOP, sitting on PHA teams as a participant or scribe, or looking to sharpen your facilitation skills, this session gives you a clear, practical roadmap for what good facilitation actually looks like, and how to develop the judgment that no textbook can teach. Strengthen your process safety knowledge or take the next step in your career!

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Bryce L Boehmer
Chemical Technology Diploma, PHA Facilitator, TapRoot Investigation/RCA, SIL-D/LOPA Facilitator, Instructor

Webinar Summary

Bryce walks through the full anatomy of a well-run PHA: what a PHA is and how it differs from a HAZOP, how to select the right methodology (HAZOP, What-If, Checklist, FMEA, LOPA) for the stage of design or change you're evaluating, how to build the right team and define quorum, how to read P&IDs like a book, how to handle conflict in the room, how to keep momentum when information is missing or drawings are out of date, and how to maintain quality control so your name on that PHA report means something.

He also addresses the reality most training programs skip: you will not walk out of a course as a finished facilitator. Bryce explains the realistic path from participant, to scribe, to facilitating simple What-Ifs, to eventually leading complex HAZOPs on live process systems, and what it actually takes to get there.

Bryce Boehmer is a highly experienced PHA/HAZOP facilitator.

With 30+ years of technical and process safety expertise and more than 4,000 PHAs facilitated across virtually every processing industry, from offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea to modern pipeline operations, Bryce brings a depth of real-world experience that few instructors can match. He is an active member of the Process Safety Community of Practice at Energy Safety Canada and has spent the last several years teaching the next generation of facilitators through Risk Alive's training programs.

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Webinar Agenda

Welcome & Introductions

  • Meet Bryce L Boehmer and hear about his facilitation background and goals for the session.

The "Art" of Effective Facilitation

  • PHA vs. HAZOP fundamentals, differences, and how they fit together.
  • What facilitation really involves.
  • Why PHA & HAZOP really matter.

About the PHA/HAZOP Facilitation Course

  • Course breakdown and who it’s for.
  • Learning outcomes, practical skills, certification, and career value.
  • How to continue building expertise.

Instructor Q&A

  • Addressing common facilitation challenges.
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About the PHA/HAZOP Facilitation Course

This 3-day PHA / HAZOP Facilitation 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.
 
It is recommended that the P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) and Engineering Drawings Interpretation course be completed prior to attending this course.
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Course Benefits

  • 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.

Personal Development

  • Three classroom or remote training days
  • Providing 2.4 CEU (Continuing Education Units) or 24 PDH (Professional Development Hours)

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 Learn with 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 AI PHA Agent software solutions.
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Our Training Benefits

  • Senior facilitators with 30+ years of active field experience. Every engagement and every course is led by practitioners like Bryce Boehmer, who has personally facilitated over 4,000 PHAs worldwide and is still actively facilitating today, not junior consultants or retired instructors teaching from dated theory.

  • Practitioner-led instruction. Our courses are taught by instructors who actively facilitate PHAs in the field. You learn through real case studies, live examples, and hands-on facilitation exercises drawn from situations Bryce has actually lived through, 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 (CEUs / PDHs). 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 Risk Alive to learn which programs may apply to you.

  • Complimentary software access. Every course graduate receives free 90-day access to LivePHA™, Risk Alive's proprietary PHA software and our Risk Intelligence Analytics platform, and free 30-day access to our AI PHA Assistant, proprietary tooling that helps facilitators and teams identify weak signals, benchmark risk, and improve PHA quality over time. No other PHA training provider offers this.

Register for Risk Alive's PHA/HAZOP training programs:

  • Introduction to PHA/HAZOP (entry-level course, ideal for scribes, new participants, and engineers preparing to sit on PHA teams).

  • PHA/HAZOP Facilitation (the main course for those developing into facilitator roles, taught directly by Bryce Boehmer).

Not sure which course is right for you?

The Introduction course is the recommended starting point if you are new to PHAs or will be participating as a team member or scribe. The Facilitation course is the next step for engineers and process safety professionals developing into facilitator roles.

Need PHA/HAZOP facilitation services for your project or facility?

Risk Alive provides senior-led PHA, HAZOP, What-If & HAZID, LOPA / SIL Determination, SIL Verification, CHAZOP & Control Reviews, SIF / Risk Reviews facilitation across North America and internationally. Contact us at info@riskalive.com or fill out a form below to learn more.