Process Safety Leadership and Culture

Overview

This course is designed to help leaders explore their role in process safety management. Delegates will examine the real issues and decisions faced by leaders at all levels, from shift team leaders to board directors. You will explore process safety management frameworks, information flows, and examine the human factors and cultural elements of the workplace, before identifying critical issues and considering a bespoke action plan.

Using facilitated discussions and interactive sessions you will consider your access to information, your understanding of key issues and your ability to make cogent and timely decisions and take action to respond to the concerns of the public, the regulator, employees, contractors, and investors.

During the course, you will be encouraged to create a personalised action plan to enhance your contribution to process safety in your business. 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you will better understand:

• the business implications of process safety
• the role of leadership in promoting and sustaining process safety management
• the functional aspects of an organisation that require leadership attention to ensure that process safety risks are being correctly managed
• how to develop personal action plans to enhance your contribution to process safety in your business.

Who will benefit

• Leaders at all levels of the organisation, typically those with key resource-allocation and decision-making responsibilities

The course is delivered at a level to be understood by all – including those with non-engineering backgrounds. Participants in the past have ranged from new graduates to company directors, workshop team leaders to venture capital financiers. Sectors represented include oil and gas, mining, power, water and waste, pulp and paper, pharma, rail and chemical processing.

Course outline

• Context of process safety
• Regulation and best practice
• Leadership in process safety
• Functional elements of an organisation and how they relate to process safety
• Personal action planning

Course delivery

Face-to-face.

Dates & location

• 20 November 2026, Manchester, UK

Not available then or looking for an alternative course delivery? Register your interest in future dates or request an in-company course quotation.

Fees

• IChemE member £850 + VAT
• Non-member £1,000 + VAT

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

An e-certificate will be issued at the end of the course to confirm attendance and CPD hours logged. Please note that you must attend the whole course to receive the certificate. 

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.

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 – Professional Process Safety Engineer: B4.3, B4.4
• C&C – Chartered Chemical Engineer: B1, C2
• C&C – Professional Process Safety Engineer: C1, C3, C4