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Basic Safety and Loss Prevention

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to identify hazards resulting from human error, evaluating risks and targeting resources to prevent accidents through effective risk management.

Program Outline:

• Loss prevention aspects.
• Accidents investigation.
• Accident reporting.
• Analyzing accidents.
• Work place control and development. - Design safety system.
• Safety transportation and handling.
• Work permits.
• Industrial psychology.
• Industrial safety role.
• Personal protection equipment.
• Area classification.

Who Should Attend: All employees.

Behavioral Based Safety

Program Objectives:

The participants will learn how to recognize and enhance positive employees behavior and attitudes as a contributor to a safe and healthy work environment.

Program Outline:

• Role of positive behavior and team work in building a safe working environment.
• Methodology of effective observation and intervention.
• Developing routine metrics and carry out audits to gain success of the problem.

Who Should Attend: Safety engineers, process engineers and maintenance engineers.

Emergency Planning for Crisis

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to know the latest techniques to improve the emergency plans, to know how other major successful GCC companies maintain and improve their emergency standard.

Program Outline:

• Review of GCC best practice.
• Emergency planning audit.
• Roles and responsibilities of emergency manager.
• Identifying and equipping an emergency operation centre.
• Essential arrangements for handling the media.
• Communications and warning.
• Psychological problems in emergency management.
• Developing future emergency response exercises.

Who Should Attend: Safety engineers and fire officers.

Environmental Impact Assessment

Program Objectives:

The participants will learn how to build the capacity of the participant in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) review, and highlight the importance of the EIA.

Program Outline:

• Introduction and objectives.
• Phases of environmental impact assessment (EIA).
• Reviewing definition and role.
• EIA review steps.
• EIA review methods.
• Acceptability of EIA report.

Who Should Attend:

Superintendent (project), senior engineers (projects), process engineers, safety engineers and project engineers.

First Aid - Males

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to understand and improve theoretical and practical knowledge of first aid.

Program Outline:

• Introduction to first aid.
• Accident assessment.
• Respiratory system suffocating.
• Artificial respiration.
• Circulatory system.
• Cardiac arrest and resuscitation.
• Bleeding and injuries.
• Shocks.
• Bone fracture.
• Burning.
• Poisoning.

Who Should Attend: All male employees.

H2S Awareness

Program Objectives:

The participants will gain the essential facts about the poisonous gas hydrogen sulphide and the measures to be taken in order to eliminate the element of fear when exposed to hydro sulphide environment.

Program Outline:

• Chemical and physical properties of H2S,
• Characteristics and Properties of H2S.
• Location of H2S in general.
• Specific locations of H2S in refinery.
• Health hazard due to H2S.
• Influence of H2S on human beings.
• Physiology effects.
• Exposure limits to H2S allowable.
• Initial response strategy (Evacuate, Alarm, Assess, etc).
• Basic rescues procedures.
• Treatment of injured persons.
• Protection equipment.
• H2S detection equipment.

Who Should Attend: Fire-fighters and Refinery operators.

Hazardous Waste Management

Program Objectives:

The participants will learn the latest requirement of the regulation, how to comply, and how to properly identify, accumulate, minimize, and ship hazardous waste.

Program Outline:

• Overview of hazardous waste regulations.
• Container management.
• Alternative waste management programs.
• Off-site management of hazardous waste.
• Pre- Transport requirement.
• Land disposal restrictions.
• Contingency plans preparedness and prevention.
• Waste identification and characterization.
• Treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF) requirements.
• Waste minimization and pollution prevention.

Who Should Attend: Safety engineers.

HAZOP Study

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to identify a strategy for potential hazard in plant operation deviation, have an insight into HAZOP study techniques and practices, ensure compliance with the OSHA regulation for process safety management (PSM) of highly hazardous chemicals and be aware of the mechanisms for follow up of HAZOP studies.

Program Outline:

• Introduction to HAZOP procedure, team selection, meeting procedure & reporting
• Overview of process safety management, OSHA 1910, 119.
• Hazard analysis methods and techniques.
• HAZOP principles conventions processes and usage.
• Risk assessment.
• Fire safety.
• Protective systems.
• Equipment and operational integrity.
• HAZOP team management.
• Defining and handling problems in HAZOP.
• Hazard perception, potential of hazards throughout a project.
• Recommendations follow up.

Who Should Attend:. Senior engineers and engineers.

Incident and Accident Investigation

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to effectively investigate an incident, produce an incident tree, prepare basic reports on finding and prepare evidence for appropriate parties.

Program Outline:

• Corrective actions.
• Syndicate projects.
• Basic fire investigation.
• Reporting flow- incident ownership.
• Incident Causes.
• Case studies of major incidents.

Who Should Attend: Fire and safety officers.

Industrial Safety and Practices

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to assess and quantify the perception of threat in terms of loss of human life, material and equipment.

Program Outline:

• Types of security perception.
• Identification of hazard prone areas.
• Use of preliminary hazard analysis techniques.
• Type of industrial fire and their hazards.
• Natural of explosions (physical and chemical).
• Effect of toxic dispersion from gas release.
• Assessment of consequences.
• Security of chemical inventories.
• Use of probability and predictive techniques.
• Risk reduction measurement.
• Fire fighting preparedness.

Who Should Attend: Superintendents and senior engineers.

Oil Spill

Program Objectives:

The participants will understand the likely sources of oil spills, the different types of oil and how they behave when spilled on water, explanation of the damage that spilled oil can cause to ecological and socio-economic resources, how to combat oil spill on water with available options, how to manage and organize the response team from coIll1i1and and control activities to field operational staff.

Program Outline:

• Introduction.
• Causes and fate of oil spills.
• Environmental issues.
• Response strategies.
• Inland response.
• Safety issues.
• Waste management.
• Response organization.
• Syndicate exercises.
• Drill exercise.

Who Should Attend:

Marine, operation, maintenance, safety and environmental engineers and technicians.

Oil Spill Management

Program Objectives:

The participants will have a review of the main functions of oil spill management's teams and the issues they must contend with during this incident.

Program Outline:

• Behavior and fate of spilled oil.
• Effects of spilled oil.
• Main response options.
• Waste management.
• Roles and responsibilities.
• Tier 3 response planning,
• Media and other pressure/interest.
• Communication issues.
• Environment monitoring.
• Health and safety management.
• Use of IT on oil spill response.
• Financial implications.

Who Should Attend: EAMD - HSE & DS, managers and supervisors.

Risk Assessment within Production Operations

Program Objectives:

The participants will be able to accurately describe practical risk assessment techniques, identify the hazards and associated risk, be conversant with potential loss calculation methodology, understand risk assessment techniques with regard in hazard effect and probability and list the key principles required for the safe operation of process plant.

Program Outline:

• Defining risk management for process plants.
• Identification of hazards and assessment of overall risk.
• Recommendation and implantation of steps.
• Management of safety.
• Communications.
• Maintaining a healthy atmosphere.
• Methods used in risk assessment.
• HAZAN and HAZOP studies.
• Reading and interpreting piping instrumentation diagrams.
• Risk assessment of refineries and petrochemicals plants.

Who Should Attend: Engineers, supervisor and technicians.

Special Scaffolding

Program Objectives:

The participants will be provided with the skills and knowledge required to perform the scaffolding duties safely.

Program Outline:

• Introduction to scaffolding principles.
• Scaffolding terminology.
• Scaffolding standards and codes.
• Types of scaffolding and connections.
• Scaffolding studding area and tolerance.
• Scaffolding materials.
• Calculating the amount of Scaffolding required.
• Safety of scaffolding works.
• Inspection of scaffolding.

Who Should Attend: Safety engineers and riggers.