CCPS Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS)

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
31 May 2026 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register
30 Aug 2026 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $ 4,500 Register
13 Dec 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

CCPS Risk-Based Process Safety (RBPS)

Introduction

Formal Process Safety Management (PSM) systems are now mandated in most parts of the world as a way of achieving process safety and improving practices. PSM systems have therefore been implemented in most companies for many years. However, incident investigations continue to identify inadequate management system performance as a key contributor to the incident and audits reveal a history of repeat findings indicating chronic problems whose symptoms are fixed again and again without effectively addressing the technical and cultural root causes.

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) created the next generation process safety management framework RBPS, recognizing that all hazards and risks in an operation or facility are not equal, consequently apportioning resources in a manner that focuses effort on greater hazards and higher risks as appropriate. This risk-based approach reduces the potential for assigning an undue amount of resources to manage lower-risk activities, thereby freeing up resources for tasks that address higher-risk activities.

  • Participants attending the CCPS Risk-Based Process Safety training course will develop the following competencies:
  • Understand hazards and risks
  • Commit to process safety and the way of working
  • Learn to assess and manage risk in design, operation, and maintenance
  • Willingness and ability to learn from their own and others’ experiences

Objectives

    Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:-

    • Develop/enhance the Risk-Based Process Safety knowledge of employees
    • Improve the overall organizational capability and performance through a competent workforce
    • Improve overall process safety by considering organizational culture  

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

Operations, Maintenance, Technical Service Personnel, and Management Team.

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction to Safety; Understanding Hazards and Risk

  • Introduction
  • Good safety is good business
  • What is Process Safety?
  • Accident Pyramid and Swiss Cheese Model
  • Major Incidents as Learning Events
  • Why we fail to learn
  • Understanding hazard and risk
  • Risk matrix and ALARP
  • Risk tolerability
  • Workshop Session
  • Case studies

Day 2: Risk Analysis Techniques

  • Consequences
  • Risk Assessments and Hazard Studies
  • Bow-Tie model
  • Hazards & Risk Registers
  • P&ID’s
  • Hazard identification and risk analysis (HIRA) techniques
  • HAZOP
  • LOPA
  • Design safety
  • Inherent Safety, Ergonomics & Human Error
  • Workshop Session
  • Case studies

Day 3: Operational Considerations

  • Asset integrity
  • Causes of overpressure
  • Overpressure protection philosophy
  • Operational characteristics
  • Causes of improper performance
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Hazop and Risk-Based Safety Management
  • Emergency Response
  • CCPS risk-based process safety.
  • 4 pillars
  • 20 elements
  • Workshop Session
  • Case studies

Day 4: Culture

  • Metrics & Process Safety Performance
  • Management of Change
  • Management systems
  • Risk-based inspection and testing
  • Records
  • Human factors
  • Leadership and Safety Culture
  • National and Regulatory Culture
  • Corporate Culture and Black Swans
  • DuPont and ICI

Day 5: Learning from Events

  • Learning from accidents
  • Behavioral safety
  • ISC 6 pillars
  • Energy Institute PSM framework
  • OECD Corporate Governance for Process Safety
  • Process Safety Leadership Checklist (CIA)
  • Workshop Session
  • Case studies
  • Review
  • Applying the Learning – Group Vision and Action Plan

Accreditation

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