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Practitioner 2 days

Management of Change and Pre Startup Safety Review

Catching the change that was not recognised as one

Management of change fails most often because a change was never entered into the system. This workshop covers change recognition, technical review depth, temporary change control and the pre startup safety review that provides the last check before hazardous material is introduced.

This course sits alongside our Process Safety Management Systems consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.

Who should attend

Engineers and supervisors who raise or approve changes
Process safety coordinators who administer the MOC system
Operations and maintenance staff implementing changes
Auditors reviewing change control effectiveness

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.

1

Recognising a change

  • Replacement in kind and where the boundary genuinely sits
  • Organisational change, procedural change and change of process conditions
  • Changes that arrive disguised as maintenance
  • Building recognition into the work order and procurement routes
2

Review and approval

  • Scaling review depth to the hazard rather than to the cost
  • Which technical disciplines must review what
  • Hazard review triggers and when a change needs a HAZOP
  • Authority levels and the pressure to approve quickly
3

Temporary change

  • Time limits, expiry tracking and the temporary change that became permanent
  • Car sealing, jumpers, temporary piping and defeated interlocks
  • The register that makes temporary changes visible
4

Pre startup safety review

  • What must be verified before hazardous material is introduced
  • Construction against design, procedures updated, training completed
  • Punch list discipline and what genuinely blocks startup
  • Documenting a review that would satisfy an investigator

What you receive

  • An MOC form and review routing template
  • A change recognition guide with worked examples
  • A temporary change register format
  • A pre startup safety review checklist
  • Assessment result and attendance record

What changes afterwards

  • Changes enter the system because people recognise them as changes
  • Review depth matches the hazard instead of the paperwork habit
  • Temporary changes expire or get converted deliberately
  • Startup happens against a verified checklist rather than schedule pressure

Standards and references

We teach Management of Change and Pre Startup Safety Review against CCPS Guidelines for the Management of Change for Process Safety and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.

CCPS Guidelines for the Management of Change for Process SafetyOSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 paragraphs l and iCCPS RBPS management of change and operational readiness elements

Run Management of Change and Pre Startup Safety Review 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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