Applied HAZOP for Engineers

Course Provider

Centre for Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE@NTU)

Certification

Continuing Education and Training Certificate

Introduction

This course is designed to cover the essential elements for all safety, operations, engineering and managerial personnel with the responsibility for carrying out and participating in HAZOPS. It identifies potentially hazardous failures in a systematic, thorough and creative way using guidewords to determine what can go wrong outside the design envelope.

Upon successful completion of the course, learners will receive an "NTU Certificate of Completion".


Course Availability

  • Date(s): 06 to 07 Mar 2025

    Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM

    Venue: NTU@one-north campus, Executive Centre (Buona Vista)

    Registration Closing Date: 13 Feb 2025

At the end of this course, the learners will learn:

1. how to plan, prepare and facilitate a HAZOPS. This is essential for those participants looking to conduct or take lead roles in HAZOPS.
2. how to follow up and report the findings of the HAZOPS and how to delegate responsibility effectively.

1. Understand the relationship between HAZOPS and the other elements of a Safety Management System
2. HAZOPS methodology
3. Differences between HAZOPS and other reviews, including design reviews
4. Understand the steps that must be taken to prepare, conduct, report and follow-up on a HAZOPS
5. Common errors committed by inexperienced HAZOPS leaders
6. Developing good HAZOPS facilitating skills
7. Interactive HAZOPS Workshop practice

This course is suitable for staff who have the following responsibility within the organisation:

  1. Process engineering design
  2. Health, safety and environment management
  3. Project engineering management
  4. Insurance surveyor
  5. Loss prevention specialist
  6. Maintenance
  7. Process control and instrumentation
  8. Daily plant operation

Requirements: Basic process engineering knowledge. Able to read and understand process flow diagrams (PFD), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).

This course is qualified for 10 Professional Development Units (PDU) by the Professional Engineers Board. 

Standard Course Fee: S$850.20

SSG Funding Support

 Course fee

Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes

 

BEFORE funding & GST

AFTER funding & 9% GST

Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding)

S$780.00

S$255.06

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

S$99.06

SCs aged ≥ 40 years old
SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES)
(Up to 90% funding)

  • Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
  • NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.

 

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Mr Thia Cheong Meng

Thia Cheong Meng, Risk Consultant, has over 30 years of working experience in the petrochemical industry. He has worked for several major companies in engineering and operation covering management of poison chemicals as poison license holder of the company; design, construction, commissioning and operating, including troubleshooting and technical support of petrochemical facilities; implementation of process safety management system. He had been the HAZOP and HAZID facilitator for Shell compression natural gas facility in Philippines, BP hydrogen refueling stations in Beijing China, desalination plant, Petronas Offshore platform and Onshore Gas Terminal facilities, PTT Thailand Gas Transmission Pipelines Expansion Project, LPG Storage Terminal ,Kerosene Distillation Plant, Dung Quat Refinery Vietnam, Refinery MOGAS Project and South Pars Phase 12 Offshore Facility. He conducted the HAZOP public training course in Shanghai, China and Kulau Lumpur, Malaysia. He has extensive experience in using consequence modelling programs to model a wide variety of release scenarios. He has also prepared offsite and onsite Emergency Response Plans and Quantitative Risk Assessment for numerous companies in Singapore and the ASEAN region. He had done QRA studies for many companies on Jurong Island.