Applied HAZOP for Engineers
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 HAZOP.
The course will introduce the participants on how to use and master the HAZOP methodology, a study team technique, to
- Identify potentially hazardous failures of a process with up-to-date P&IDs in a systematic, thorough and creative way using guidewords
- Determine the causes that cause the process to operate beyond the design envelope,
- Evaluate the safeguards and perform a risk assessment to ensure that appropriate risk mitigation measures are provided.
- Adapt, extend the HAZOP methodology concept and apply it to cover What if/Checklist study for work, storage and transportation activities, batch processes taking human factors into consideration, equipment Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Computer Process Control (CHAZOP)
- Conduct HAZOP revalidation study
HAZOP is used throughout the project development. It normally revalidates every 5 years throughout the life of petrochemical chemical plants, pharmaceutical facilities, onshore and offshore production facilities, semiconductor facilities.
At the end of this course, learners will:
- Understand and master the HAZOP Methodology
- Understand Risk Ranking and Risk Matrices for use in the study
- How to select and markup HAZOP nodes
- Learn how to document the HAZOP findings with all required details such that the HAZOP report can be used as inputs for SIL classification study, Alarm rationalization study and emergency response planning
- Understand and follow the HAZOP workshop ground rules
- Understand the duties and responsivities of facilitator, scribe and team members
- Be familiar with some common errors committed in conducting HAZOP study
- How to plan and prepare so that A HAZOP study is executed efficiently
- How to revalidate existing HAZOP studies without doing a complete re-HAZOP
- Understand the critical importance of good facilitating skills to the success of HAZOP
- Understand the relationship between HAZOPS and the other elements of a Safety Management System
- HAZOPS methodology
- Differences between HAZOPS and other reviews, including design reviews
- Understand the steps that must be taken to prepare, conduct, report and follow-up on a HAZOPS
- Common errors committed by inexperienced HAZOPS leaders
- Developing good HAZOPS facilitating skills
- Interactive HAZOPS Workshop practice
This course is suitable for learners functioning in following roles:
- Process engineering design
- Health, safety and environment management
- Project engineering management
- Insurance surveyor
- Loss prevention specialist
- Maintenance
- Process control and instrumentation
- Daily plant operation
Requirements: Basic process engineering knowledge. Able to read and understand process flow diagrams (PFD), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
Date(s): 04 to 05 Sep 2025 Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM Mode: In-person Venue: NTU@one-north, Executive Centre | Registration Closing Date: 16 June 2025 |
Note: NTU reserves the right to change the date, venue, and mode of delivery due to unforeseen circumstances.
 | Upon successful completion of the course, learners will be awarded with an e-Certificate of Completion. |
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) | S$780.00 | S$460.20 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$304.20 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
Funding Requirements:
- You must achieve a minimum of 75% attendance for each module.
- You must complete and pass all assessment components.
Read more about funding here.
• NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
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.