About the Hazard Awareness Training course

If you are responsible for the management and/or operation of onshore and offshore installations or process, our Hazard Awareness Training course will help you understand the consequences of loss of containment and prepare you to alleviate the risks.

You will experience first-hand experimental demonstrations of fire, explosion and dispersion hazards. Through a series of lectures combined with video footage and examples of model calculations, we will demonstrate the consequences and mitigation techniques following a loss of containment.

Who should attend?

• Safety managers
• Hazard assessment engineers
• Operational personnel on onshore petrochemical sites and offshore oil and gas platforms
• Emergency response teams and services

Five reasons why you should attend

• Gain an appreciation of Loss Containment
• Understand Consequences of Loss
• Identify Mitigation Techniques
• Experience Full Scale Demonstrations
• Increase your knowledge to help ensure safe systems of work

Programme

We offer a variety of 2-day courses starting at 9am on Day 1 and concluding at 3pm on Day 2.  The following topics and more will be covered:

• Two Phase Gas Dispersion
• Gas Accumulation
• Liquid Spread
• Rapid Phase Transition of LNG
• Fire Hazards
• Jet fires
• Pool Fires
• Underground Pipeline Ruptures and Fires
• BLEVE
• Confined Explosions
• Vapour Cloud Explosions
• Modelling Approaches

Course Content

The content of the courses can be tailored to suit the needs of individual companies.  It can also be incorporated into individual company training courses which can be held at the Spadeadam conference facilities.

What previous delegates thought of the course

“I would definitely recommend this course to others in the gas and oil industry”

“The demonstrations helped to put topics into perspective”

“The course really helped to consolidate knowledge”

“Descriptions followed by demonstrations gave a really good insight”

“Demonstrations were excellent”

“Excellent knowledge displayed by the speakers”