Basic Safety-Training and Awareness HSE 08-15
Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals

Course Overview:

All staff in the oil & gas and petrochemicals industries requiring a basic awareness of safety techniques and management including: Operations, Engineers, Supervisors, Project Managers, Safety Representatives and non-safety HSE Professionals. It is a core course for any persons who can influence safety within the organisation and is also ideal for anyone new to the industry

You Will Learn How To

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of human factors which contribute to a safe workplace
• Understand the hazards associated with machinery and hand tools
• Recognise the physicochemical and health risks linked with hazardous substances
• Identify aspects relating to the working environment, from workplace temperature to confined space entry

Course Objectives:

Recognition of safety-related risks is fundamental to all management and professional roles in industry. This course equips participants with the basic principles of hazard recognition, and use of safety techniques and safety management. A key benefit is the ability to identify common hazards and how to control them.

A variety of exercises, readings, videos and case studies will be used to understand and practice the leadership, behavioural and other tools used in management systems.

This course is uniquely designed for the oil & gas and petrochemicals industries around the Skills

Require for OHSAS 18001 Training Awareness and Competence for OHSM at ‘Awareness’ level. It may be taken either independently or in conjunction with other Basics courses –

Course Content

• Safety techniques for hazard and risk assessment
• Process Safety and Hazards Control
• Safety Culture
• Chemical Agents
• Hazard Communication / HIRAC Hard Identification and Risk Assessment
• Biological Agents
• Work Environment
• Fire Safety
• Lockout/Tagout
• Tool Safety
• Machine Guarding
• Motor Vehicle
• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
• Electrical Safety
• Noise and Vibration
• Radiation and Radioactive Sources
• Construction and Demolition
• Scaffold Safety
• Excavation
• Logistics

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