HAZOP and Process Safety Management

It is a free-to-learn, self-paced course in HAZOP (hazard and operability study) and process safety management for oil, gas, chemical and refinery plants. It covers the OSHA PSM and CCPS frameworks, process hazards, P&ID nodes and guidewords, causes, consequences and safeguards, risk matrices, LOPA, bow-ties, management of change and CSB case studies, and ends with a HAZOP of a separator node.

It is for process, chemical, mechanical, instrument and safety engineers, operations supervisors and HSE officers who take part in or prepare HAZOP studies, and for graduates aiming at process safety roles. Engineers who already sit in HAZOPs will learn how the facilitator, the risk matrix and LOPA fit together.

You need to read a simple P&ID and know what pumps, vessels and control valves do; no paid software is needed. A spreadsheet such as LibreOffice Calc is enough for the HAZOP worksheet, the risk matrix and the LOPA arithmetic, and commercial PHA software is shown in some lessons but not used.

The course explains IEC 61882 for HAZOP studies, US OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 process safety management, the CCPS risk based process safety framework, the UK COMAH Regulations and the EU Seveso III Directive, API RP 754 process safety indicators and the tolerability of risk framework, all in our own words. LOPA is taught as the bridge to IEC 61511; SIS design itself is in the separate Safety Instrumented Systems and SIL course.

About 22 hours at your own pace: just under 15 hours of video plus notes, worked problems and practice tasks across 14 modules and a final assessment. The optional HAZOP and LOPA project on a gas-oil separation train takes about 16 hours more.

The course is free to learn, and you can earn a verifiable certificate of completion by finishing the modules and passing the 15-question final at 60 percent. Each certificate has a unique number, a QR code and a public verification page that shows the course, the modules covered and the final score.

No. The course covers the knowledge a HAZOP team member and a future facilitator need, but leading HAZOPs is learned by taking part in real studies under an experienced facilitator, and any HAZOP leader qualification comes from the body that awards it. The EDWartens certificate is a certificate of completion.

It leads to process safety engineer, HAZOP scribe or team member, technical safety engineer and HSE roles in operations and design. Oil, gas and petrochemical operators and contractors across the Gulf, North Africa, West Africa and South Asia run HAZOP and PSM programmes and regularly hire engineers with these skills.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹599 including GST for this intermediate course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.