HAZOP Leadership and Management

Overview

This HAZOP leadership and management course is designed for engineers and process safety professionals with experience of the HAZOP technique who want to develop the skills and confidence to lead successful HAZOP studies. You'll learn HAZOP best practice, how to plan and manage HAZOP study programmes, facilitate HAZOP workshops and lead multidisciplinary teams to improve process safety performance throughout the lifecycle of industrial facilities.

HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study) is one of the world's most widely used hazard identification techniques for the process industries. Effective HAZOP leadership is essential to ensure studies are well planned, efficiently facilitated and produce practical recommendations that improve process safety and operational performance.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course you will understand how to: 

• prepare for and lead effective HAZOP study meetings and programmes – including defining the scope of the study and choosing the team
• choose nodes (parts of the drawings or operation for HAZOP study)
• estimate the programme requirements for the successful completion of a study
• use facilitation techniques to motivate the team and keep them on task
• avoid common problems encountered during study meetings, including challenging behaviours
• formulate the HAZOP study report
• fulfil the HAZOP team leader’s role in implementing recommendations and managing the process
• apply HAZOP leadership techniques to improve process safety performance across industrial facilities
• Online course only – apply the Delta HAZOP technique for re-validating process hazard analysis.

Who will benefit

• Anyone with experience of the HAZOP technique who is responsible for leading or facilitating HAZOP studies, or managing HAZOP programmes
• Process safety engineers, loss prevention specialists, production engineers, process design engineers, project engineers, process programmers and instrument control engineers
• Those preparing for their Chartered Member application – the course has been mapped against the Engineering Council's UK-SPEC competencies A (Knowledge and understanding), B (Design, development and solving engineering problems) and E (Professional commitment)

Course outline

• Planning and managing a HAZOP study
• HAZOP node identification and time estimation
• Preparing for a HAZOP workshop
• Recording HAZOP style, skills and development of recommendations
• HAZOP meeting facilitation
• Team dynamics
• Leading multidisciplinary HAZOP teams
• HAZOP report development and action management
• Online course only – the Delta HAZOP technique for re-validating process hazard analysis

What delegates say

"I found it helpful to focus on the facilitation and getting the most out of the team rather than getting bogged down in the detail of the HAZOP itself - this is pitched at the perfect level for engineers who have the capability to do the HAZOP but now want to upskill as a facilitator. Nigel added a dimension of experience and practical application that helped embed the content excellently."
K Grove, BP, UK

"The best thing was getting the chance to see how people from other companies manage the HAZOP study, share their experience. Great trainer."
T Malčeková, Orlen Unipetrol, Czech Republic

"Excellent trainer, he has great practical experience and knowledge." 
S Gurav, Shell Petroleum, Brunei 

"I found it very interesting to learn more about how you can lead/ask questions and comments within a HAZOP to promote a positive and constructive response."
J Hill, Pfizer, UK

"It has empowered me to upskill my work colleagues to help make our designs much safer. Very well structured with the course material that needed covering."
M Razaque, Jacobs, UK

"The best thing was the worksheets/activities which had us discussing in groups and applying the HAZOP methodology."
T Cutfield, Gexcon, UK

"The course content, method of delivery, examples used, live practice modules and other course features were very relevant, of high technical content and quality. I would strongly recommend this course to all safety practitioners, process safety engineers and other related disciplines."
G Venkaraman, Techno Safe Consultants, India

"What an excellent course, it was one of the best I have been on in my career. Well thought out, clear and delivered superbly by real experts."
J Douglas, Ramboll, UK

Course delivery

Live sessions are delivered via Microsoft Teams. If you don't already have this installed, you can join as a guest in order to access the training. 

There will be some work to complete independently before the course and between the live sessions. More details will be provided after you have registered.

Dates

• Module one: 12 October 2026, 09:00–12:00 AWST and MYT / 11:00–14:00 AEDT / 14:00–17:00 NZDT
• Module two: 14 October 2026, 09:00–12:00 AWST and MYT / 11:00–14:00 AEDT / 14:00–17:00 NZDT
• Module three: 16 October 2026, 09:00–12:00 AWST and MYT / 11:00–14:00 AEDT / 14:00–17:00 NZDT
• Module four: 20 October 2026, 09:00–12:00 AWST and MYT / 11:00–14:00 AEDT / 14:00–17:00 NZDT

Not available then or looking for an alternative course delivery? View more dates.

Fees

• IChemE member AU$2,200 + GST
• Non-member AU$2,400 + GST

More than one person to train?

Multi-place discounts

Discounts are available to companies booking more than one place. Bookings must be made at the same time to receive the discount.

• 2 places – 10% discount
• 3 places –15% discount
• 4 or more places – 20% discount

In-company training

This course can be delivered to in-house teams, either on-site or online. This could be a cost-effective option if you have several people requiring the training. Content can be tailored to your specific requirements. Request a quotation.

Attendance certificate & CPD hours

All delegates will be invited to complete an assessment at the end of the course. Delegates scoring 70% and above will be issued with an IChemE HAZOP Leadership and Management pass certificate. Please note, this certification does not serve as a formal IChemE HAZOP leader accreditation or endorsement.

In the case of online courses, CPD hours should be used as an approximate guide and will vary depending on the preferred approach of the delegate and to what extent additional learning is completed.

For participants in Malaysia, the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has approved CPD hours for this course. 

Planning on becoming a Chartered Member of IChemE?

If you’re planning on becoming a Chartered Member of IChemE, this course may support your preparation. In the list below, we have identified how this course could contribute to your Underpinning Knowledge and Understanding (which needs to be demonstrated by applicants who have not completed the equivalent of an accredited MEng degree which fully meets the UKU requirements) – see ‘UKU Chartered Chemical Engineer and UKU Professional Process Safety Engineer’.

The course could also help you in preparing your Competence and Commitment report – see ‘C&C Chartered Chemical Engineer and C&C PPSE’. The references below demonstrate the question numbers in the respective application forms.  Please also refer to the Chartered Member Guidance document. 

• UKU - Chartered Chemical Engineer: 1.5.1
• UKU - PPSE: B1.1 and B4.4
• C&C - Chartered Chemical Engineer: B1 and C2
• C&C - PPSE: A2, B1, C3 and C4