This five-day instructor-led program equips energy professionals with the competencies to identify, assess, and manage integrated health, safety, environmental, and security risks across producing assets. The program balances lectures by a recognized industry specialist, group exercises, and discussions of case studies and scenarios. This blended learning format has proven to be the most effective way for participants to internalize lecture content in a challenging, enjoyable team-based environment. In the process, attendees learn the complexities of developing and maintaining a robust HSE system in large organizations, as well as how to build an HSE-focused culture that helps ensure safe and sustainable operations.
Rather than treating HSE and security as separate disciplines, the course adopts an integrated risk management approach, recognizing that a security event often triggers or intensifies an HSE emergency, and vice versa. Participants will leave with practical skills, tools, and a transferable action plan directly applicable to their roles.
| Program Type |
|---|
$5,750
Out of stock
The program is aligned to the following strategic HSE and security-related priorities:
This program is ideal for individuals seeking an integrated understanding of HSE best practices and oilfield security challenges in the international petroleum industry. This includes managers, planners, government personnel, engineers, field supervisors, contractors, support staff, and other industry specialists. The program is also beneficial for those who interface with the oil and gas industry and for those who work in other areas and wish to learn about the integration of HSE and security risks across producing assets.
The five-day program will begin on the first day at 8:30 am with registration. Formal sessions begin each day at 8:30 am and run until 5:00 pm. Participants may be asked to stay late on some of the first few evenings to work on workshop sessions. The Friday session typically ends at midday.
The instructional format includes lectures by seasoned industry experts, practical case studies, discussions, and team exercises. The lectures will address the complexities and challenges of HSE and Security risk management across the oil & gas value chain and the key considerations for developing a robust investment and operating plan that maintains long-term uptime and safety.
The case studies and group exercises allow participants to investigate HSE and security topics in more depth and apply the lessons from the lecture sessions. Examples are drawn from actual petroleum industry incidents and are designed to help participants critically analyze the issues and impacts of these incidents. In addition, group exercises will directly address situations commonly encountered in petroleum industry operations. The analysis and discussion of real-world events will provide attendees with a deeper understanding of the nature of process safety issues in the petroleum industry and ways to address them in their own operations.
Structure of the petroleum value chain, regional oil and gas overview of key world markets, analysis of market opportunities, major pricing mechanisms, and the impact of the energy transition on the oil and gas business.
Critical components of oil & gas production facilities, ensuring the well-being of workers and the protection of the environment, introduction to and definition of risk management, forms of risk management for producing assets, and elements of risk management programs.
The conceptual and operational basis for integrating HSE and security risk management within producing and development asset environments. The limitations of siloed approaches and the strategic case for convergence, including governance structures, regulations, and international standards.
History and overview of HSE management programs, elements of HSE management systems, the role of management, management system metrics, and linkage to sustainability.
Safety vs. process safety, hard and soft safety areas of concern related to people and process safety, safe work procedures, and key operational approaches to ensure ongoing operational integrity.
Structured methodology for identifying and evaluating security threats and vulnerabilities specific to oil & gas facilities. Using the API RP 780 Security Vulnerability Assessment framework, participants examine threat profiles relevant to producing assets, including pipeline vandalism, crude theft, militant activity, and insider threat, and apply criticality analysis techniques to prioritize security risks across asset types.
Health issues in the petroleum industry, chemical and material exposure issues, causes and effects of workplace injuries, assessing health risks, and health and chemical control programs.
Emergency preparedness and response plans, response scenarios, emergency equipment, availability and maintenance, preparedness drills, and emergency response command structures.
Incident investigation programs and requirements, levels of incidents and investigations, incident review and investigation techniques, reporting issues and requirements, and conducting trend analysis to link with continuous improvement programs.
The role of human behavior, organizational dynamics, and environmental conditions in both the causation and prevention of HSE and security incidents. Key concepts include error typology, situational awareness, fatigue, and insider threat in an operational context. The Swiss cheese model demonstrates how human factor failures can breach multiple layers of protection simultaneously.
Developing a healthy, safe, and environmentally responsible culture within an organization; the role of a safety culture in HSE management programs; individual and organizational behavioral patterns; aspects of a safety culture program; the value of a safety culture; introducing a safety culture in new areas or organizations, including the cost of failure when these programs are not fully implemented.
Compliance and management involvement, measuring compliance, audit programs and objectives, internal and external audits, and the value of audit and compliance programs.
The structure, development, and implementation of integrated HSE and security risk management plans tailored to the company’s producing asset portfolio. Drawing on the tools and frameworks introduced throughout the program, including bowtie analysis, risk registers, barrier management, and regulatory compliance mapping, participants examine how to consolidate these elements into a coherent, asset-level risk management plan that addresses both process safety and security.
The case studies, videos, and group exercises allow participants to investigate HSE topics in greater depth and apply lessons from the lecture presentations. Examples are drawn from actual petroleum industry incidents, enabling participants to critically analyze the issues and effects of these incidents. In addition, group exercises allow teams of participants to directly address situations commonly encountered in petroleum industry operations. The analysis and discussion of real-world events provide attendees with a deeper understanding of the nature of HSE issues in the petroleum industry and ways to address them in their own organizations.
The group exercises and assignments include:
