HAZOP is short for Hazard and Operability Study. It is currently the most popular risk assessment technique in the process industry and has actually also become a verb. (“Have you HAZOPed it”?) Although the technique has proven itself in the past 50 years or so that it is being used, problems remain. Ask any experienced HAZOP Leader what the hardest part of running a HAZOP study is, and they …
What is LOPA? LOPA is short for Layer of Protection Analysis. It is also referred to sometimes as Layers of Protection Analysis. It is considered a semi-quantitative risk assessment technique. Abhisam’s Layer of Protection Analysis training course is an easy way to learn it. What are protection layers? An easy way to understand protection layers is to study an example of a residential house, located in a not so …
Process Safety and Cyber security Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new course “Cybersecurity for Process Safety Professionals” will be available soon. This course enables Process Safety Professionals to understand basic concepts of cybersecurity and incorporate cyber security considerations, such as cyber attacks on Industrial Control systems into the Safety Studies and Risk assessments that they carry out. Abhisam GOLD Members and PLATINUM members will get access to …
In this short guide we will take a look at What-If Analysis, for conducting a risk assessment of your plant or facility. This is a faster alternative to conducting a full HAZOP study. What is What-If Analysis? What-if analysis is not used just for safety studies or risk assessments. It is actually a general brainstorming technique that can help you generate new ideas, think outside the box, and come …
HAZOP Training in India Abhisam is pleased to announce that Instructor led training workshops on HAZOP, are being restarted from June 2022. Accordingly you can now easily get HAZOP Training in India via a traditional, classroom type workshop that gives a hands on experience in conducting a HAZOP Study. What is HAZOP? What is the full form of HAZOP? HAZOP is a Hazard and Risk Assessment technique used …
Abhisam is pleased to announce a What-If Training Workshop / SWIFT Training in Mumbai (Thane) on 27th May 2022. This is a public workshop and anybody who is a safety professional or other technical professional and interested in learning the What-If Method for Risk Assessment can attend. (SWIFT is an acronym for Structured What-If Analysis). What do we mean by What-If Analysis and SWIFT? What-If Analysis is a Risk …
Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that they conducted a What If training workshop for the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Lote chapter, on 27th April 2022 at Hotel Omega, Lote, near Chiplun, India. More than 45 engineers and managers from different companies in the Lote Parshuram Industrial Area attended this hands-on workshop that covered the What-If Analysis /SWIFT technique of Risk Assessment. What-If Analysis and SWIFT (Structured …
Abhisam has once again started their onsite and in-person Instructor led HAZOP training in India, after the COVID19 pandemic has subsided. One of the first such workshops, after the pandemic, was held recently. In other regions, Abhisam may start these in person, traditional classroom style training workshops, depending on the pandemic situation in those regions. HAZOP Training in India conducted by Abhisam On February 24th and 25th, 2022, Abhisam …
What is a HAZOP Study? HAZOP is an acronym for Hazard and Operability Study. It is one of the most popular hazard and risk assessment techniques used in industry and especially so the process industry (think Oil & Gas production, Petroleum refining, Chemical manufacturing, bulk pharmaceuticals manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Fossil Fuel power generation and so on), It is also very popular in industries like Mining and Metals processing, …
What is the HAZOP Leader Certification program? Abhisam’s HAZOP Leader Certification program has become one of the more popular programs, due to it being a completely online now and a completely self paced program that the participant can complete, at their own pace. Entry into the program is only for professionals having at least a Bachelors degree/Higher National Diploma in a technical field with relevant industrial experience and a …
LOPA Training Course Abhisam’s Layer of Protection Analysis ( LOPA Training Course) is one of the popular courses in the Abhisam catalog, taken by hundreds of learners online. This is a self-paced course and can be started anytime and completed at your own convenience. Interesting animations & simulations, videos, actual real life scenarios and examples, worksheets, exercises make this one of the best LOPA training courses available anywhere! LOPA …
You can learn and get certified in the What-If Analysis method by taking the What-If Analysis Training Course from Abhisam. This self paced course covers everything that you need to know to conduct a What-If Analysis (also known as SWIFT which stands for Structured What-If Analysis). What is the What-If Analysis method? It is a qualitative method which can be used to carry out Hazard and Risk Assessment in …
The Abhisam HAZOP Leader certification course is a completely online, e-learning course that can be taken anywhere at your own convenience. You can access all the modules on our new Learning Management System via any device, be it a Windows PC, laptop or Mac or a tablet or smartphone. The course is completely modular and you can take it at your own pace. Furthermore, each participant gets a free first …
Update: Please take the online self paced, HAZOP online course in e-learning format. If you have already completed the training, then you can upgrade yourself to the next level by qualifying as a HAZOP Leader here. Abhisam is pleased to announce that the next batch of its popular HAZOP and CHAZOP Training workshop will be conducted on 13th and 14th March 2020 at Thane (near Mumbai), India. This is …