This 3-day 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.

• PHA / HAZOP Team Leaders & scribes
• Health & Safety / HSE professionals
• Process Safety Management (PSM) / Loss Management specialists
• Supervisors, managers and engineers responsible for PHA studies

Mr. Marcel Leal-Valias, CET

Mr. Leal-Valias has 47 years experience in Engineering, Process Design & Drafting, mechanical maintenance, and project management. Mr. Leal-Valias has been a Piping Manager, Construction Site Manager, Project Manager and for the last 15 years, he has developed and become an internationally respected Process Hazards Analysis (PHA/HAZOP) trainer and facilitator performing hundreds of PHA studies for all types of facilities.

Three (3) days of combined classroom instruction and workshop exercises, led by one of Canada’s most well known and respected PHA Chairmen, Mr. Marcel Leal-Valias.

Day 1 Course Objectives Quantitative & Qualitative Hazard Analysis Overview of HSE Hazard Management Elements of Facility Risk PHA Teams PHA Methods HAZOP Preliminary Hazards Analysis Checklist Analysis What-if? Analysis Checklist / What-if? Analysis FMEA

Day 2 Method Selection Criteria PHA Documentation Issues PHA Leadership PHA Facilitation Skills Team Leader Qualifications PHA Leader Responsibilities PHA Group Dynamics PHA Management Defining Scope & Objective Estimate Time Requirements Documenting the Study PHA Workshop HAZOP “practice” study

Day 3 PHA Workshop (continued) HAZOP “practice” study What-if? “practice” study

WORKSHOP EXERCISE EXAMPLE

In addition to expert instruction from an experienced, professional PHA facilitator, 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. Students will have the opportunity to prepare the drawings, populate the software and facilitate the studies using drawings such as the one below. By the end of the exercises students will be able to facilitate their own HAZOP and What if sessions.