• BRLC icon-Days white-navy-64px

    Days: 2

  • BRLC icon-PDH white-navy-64px

    PDH: 16

  • BRLC icon-CEU white-navy-64px

    CEI: 1.6

Course Cost:
Early: $1,500
Normal: $1,650

Major industrial accidents involving the release of hazardous materials present a risk to the facility and local communities. Mechanical breakdown, fire, explosion, and toxic dispersion are just a few of the consequences of potentially catastrophic failures in process operations, which, if unchecked, can escalate to multiple injuries and fatalities, property damage, business losses, and environmental impact. The avoidance of process incidents is crucial to success in our industry. It has been demonstrated that a holistic management system comprised of several critical process safety activities is required to prevent, minimize, and recover from loss of containment incidents. Managing risk is central to these activities. Excellence in process safety can also lead to higher availability, productivity, and profit.

This course builds on, and complements, a Market Based Management initiative, and introduces process safety systems and concepts that have been effective across industry. A key focus throughout the course is that hazards and risks should be understood, and then managed by ‘doing what is right’ rather than slavishly following regulatory compliance alone.

The course is intended to teach process safety, risk management, and asset integrity concepts to personnel involved in design, operations, maintenance, and field safety. It is ideally suited to all discipline engineers, operations supervisors, and EHS professionals, especially new employees. Note that it may be too basic for experienced process safety engineers. The course consists of a mix of presentation tools (PowerPoint, video), exercises, and discussion.

The course includes the following topics:

  • Accident theory with relevant case studies
  • Physical and process hazards
  • Loss prevention principles in design and operations
  • Inherently safer systems
  • Loss of containment events
  • Fire, explosion, and toxic release
  • Facility siting, human factors, mechanical integrity, metallurgy considerations instrumentation
  • Failure and loss
  • How to identify and gauge risk
  • Risk tolerance and acceptance – Risk matrix
  • The ALARP concept
  • Risk management framework
  • Risk assessment process
  • Facilitation exercises
  • How to establish risk controls and safeguards
  • Risk communication

Customized Courses Tailored to Your Needs

While BakerRisk offers a range of pre-packaged courses, we recognize that the most effective courses incorporate your company’s specific hazards, incidents, and lessons learned. Please contact us to discuss how we can custom tailor courses to fit your company’s needs.

CourseStart Date
Risk Based Process Safety Fundamentals - In Person - Apr. 18-19 - Houston
  • April 18, 2023 9:00 am
Register Here
Risk Based Process Safety Fundamentals - Virtual - Apr. 18-19
  • April 18, 2023 9:00 am
Register Here

Next Step

BakerRisk presentations at the 2023 AIChE Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is hosting its highly anticipated Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety in Houston, Texas from March 12-16th, 2023. This conference is a premier event for professionals in the chemical engineering and process safety industries around the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in…