Advanced HAZOP Leadership and Facilitation
Running the room, not just knowing the guide words
For engineers who will chair studies. The technical method is assumed, and the course concentrates on what actually decides study quality, which is node selection, keeping a mixed discipline team productive, handling the dominant voice and the silent expert, and knowing when a session has stopped producing anything.
This course sits alongside our HAZOP and HAZID Studies consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Preparation decides the outcome
- Node selection and why oversized nodes are the most common cause of a poor study
- Assembling the right team and what to do when a discipline will not release anybody
- Drawing readiness, and the case for refusing to start on unrevised drawings
- Realistic session planning and the productivity curve across a day
Facilitation in practice
- Keeping a team on deviation rather than drifting into design
- Managing the dominant participant and drawing out the operator who knows the most
- Parking disagreements without losing them
- Recognising fatigue and the signals that a session has stopped finding anything
Judgement calls a leader has to make
- Deciding when a safeguard is genuinely independent
- Resisting pressure to downgrade a consequence to avoid an action
- Handling a team that wants to record an action rather than resolve a question
- When to stop the study and escalate
Quality and the record
- What a defensible study record contains and what an auditor will test
- Common failings found when studies are reviewed after an incident
- Revalidation, and what genuinely changes between cycles
- Software assisted recording and where it helps or hinders
Assessed facilitation practice
- Each delegate chairs a live node with a real team
- Structured feedback from the group and the instructor
- A second chaired session so the feedback can be applied
What you receive
- A facilitation assessment against a published competency rubric
- Node planning and study readiness checklists
- A worked revalidation scope example
- Recorded feedback on each delegate's chaired sessions
- Attendance record and competency statement for your training register
What changes afterwards
- Studies finish inside the planned sessions because preparation is done properly
- Findings reflect what the team collectively knows rather than what the loudest member believes
- Your organisation builds internal facilitation capability instead of hiring it every cycle
- Study records stand up when they are examined years later
Standards and references
We teach Advanced HAZOP Leadership and Facilitation against IEC 61882 Hazard and operability studies and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Advanced HAZOP Leadership and Facilitation for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
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