HAZOP Practitioner Training — Team Member, Recorder, Leader and Commissioning Manager
A complete practitioner course in Hazard and Operability studies — the guideword method, the four study roles, the numbered preparation, session and close-out steps, and the ranking that turns recommendations into verified controls.
29
Lessons
~15h
Study time
30
Exam questions
70%
Pass mark
QR-verifiable Certificate of Training
Self-paced online, start today
About this course
A HAZOP is only as good as the people in the room. This course prepares you to be one of them — as a team member answering the leader's guideword questions, as the recorder who turns discussion into an auditable record, as the leader who prepares, facilitates and closes out the study, or as the manager who commissions it and then has to fund what it finds. It is built from Skedmia's own classroom programme and keeps its numbered method throughout: preparation steps 1.1 to 1.8, session steps 2.1 to 2.5, and completion steps 3.1 to 3.8.
The technical frame is IEC 61882:2016 for the technique itself, with ISO 31000:2018 and IEC 31010:2019 for the surrounding risk-management process — where hazard identification sits, how findings are assessed, and why a missed source of risk defeats everything downstream. The worked examples are process-industry ones familiar across the GCC: a gas transmission line, a selective hydrogenation unit, a hydrotreater feed section, a charge pump and surge drum on atmospheric residue, a stripper safeguarding PFD, and a relief-valve register entry tracked from recommendation to verified control.
It is written for process, operations, maintenance, instrumentation and HSE engineers, plant supervisors and project engineers in gas plants, refineries, petrochemical complexes, desalination and district cooling, and for consultants who lead studies for clients. Four assessed exercises run through the programme: building deviations from parameter–guideword pairs, completing a record sheet for reverse flow and furnace tube rupture, leading a short study on a surge drum node, and answering a memo that demands a five-day HAZOP on out-of-date drawings.
Assessment is a 30-question online exam with a 70% pass mark. Successful learners receive a verifiable Skedmia certificate. Approximately 16 hours of self-paced study.
- Standards referenced
- IEC 61882:2016, ISO 31000:2018, IEC 31010:2019
- Subject
- Health & Safety
- Format
- Self-paced online — the lessons open as soon as you enrol
- Study time
- About 15 hours across 29 lessons
- Assessment
- Final Exam: 30 questions, 70% pass mark
- Exam attempts
- Unlimited, at no extra cost
- Certificate
- Skedmia Certificate of Training, valid for 1 year and verifiable at skedmia.com/verify
- Access
- Lifetime access with a one-time payment
Course content
10 modules · 29 lessons · about 15h · final exam
01Module 1 — HAZOP Fundamentals — What the Technique Is and Where It Fits3 lessons · 95 min
- What a HAZOP Is — Describe, Examine, Evaluate33 min
- Hazard Identification Inside the Risk-Management CyclePreview30 min
- How a Study Is Organised — Team, Scope, Method and Phases35 min
02Module 2 — The Team Member — Preparation, Parameters and Guidewords3 lessons · 95 min
- Before the Sessions — Joining Instructions, Site Visit and Study Plan31 min
- Parameters, Guidewords and Deviations35 min
- From Guideword to Line of Questioning30 min
03Module 3 — Special Guidewords — Non-Routine Conditions, Human Factors and What to Avoid3 lessons · 100 min
- Special Guidewords for Failures and Conditions33 min
- Guidewords to Avoid and the Human-Factors Set30 min
- Exercise 1 — Practising with Guidewords (assessed)35 min
04Module 4 — The Recorder — Turning Discussion into a Usable Record3 lessons · 100 min
- The Recorder as a Professional Participant32 min
- The Record Sheet — Columns, Node Headers and the Four Outcomes35 min
- Exercise 2 — Recording the Hydrotreater Feed Section (assessed)35 min
05Module 5 — The Leader, Preparation — Scope and Steps 1.1 to 1.83 lessons · 105 min
- The Leader's Role, Style and Agreeing the Scope31 min
- Steps 1.1 to 1.4 — Drawings, Duration, Safeguarding PFD, Nodes40 min
- Steps 1.5 to 1.8 — People, Data, Walls, Recording Set-Up and the Room35 min
06Module 6 — The Leader, Running the Sessions — Steps 2.1 to 2.53 lessons · 95 min
- The Shape of a HAZOP Day — Three Nested Loops30 min
- Steps 2.1 to 2.3 — Drawing, Section and Design Intent30 min
- Steps 2.4 to 2.5 and Special-Topic Days35 min
07Module 7 — The Leader, Completing the Study — Steps 3.1 to 3.3, 3.7 and Feedback3 lessons · 105 min
- Steps 3.1 to 3.3 — Non-Routine Conditions, Collation and Team Review31 min
- Recommendations and the Study Report — Step 3.730 min
- Exercise 3 — Leading the Charge Pump and Surge Drum Node, and the Feedback Profile40 min
08Module 8 — The Commissioning Manager — Value, Limitations and Timing3 lessons · 95 min
- Why Commission a HAZOP — Assurance, Governance and Fit34 min
- Limitations — Cost, Documents, Redesign and the Outsourcing Myth30 min
- Timing, Phased Studies and Wider Applications35 min
09Module 9 — Ranking and Implementation — From Recommendation to Verified Control3 lessons · 110 min
- Planning for the Workload and Assessing the Recommendations — Step 3.435 min
- Cross-Checking and Ranking — Steps 3.5 and 3.635 min
- Step 3.8 — Implementation, the Risk Register and Exercise 4 (assessed)40 min
10Course materials & downloads2 lessons
- HAZOP Guideword Grid and Special-Guideword Prompt Sheet (PDF)
- HAZOP Study File Template — Node Header, Record Sheet and Recommendation Register (PDF)
What you earn
A certificate anyone can verify in seconds
Score 70% or better on the final exam and Skedmia issues your Certificate of Training with a unique certificate number. Every certificate carries a QR code that resolves to our public register, so an employer or auditor can confirm it is genuine without contacting anyone. Certificates state a validity of 1 year from issue and can be renewed.
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Before you enrol
How is the course delivered?
Entirely online and self-paced. Once you enrol, the lessons open immediately in your Skedmia account on any device, and you can stop and resume whenever you like.
How do I earn the certificate?
Complete the lessons, then sit the 30-question final exam. Score 70% or more and your Certificate of Training is issued straight away with a unique certificate number and QR code. The PDF downloads from your account.
What happens if I don't pass?
Review the lessons and retake the exam as many times as you need, at no extra cost. Each attempt is marked immediately.
How does an employer verify my certificate?
Every certificate carries a QR code and a certificate number. Scanning the code, or entering the number on our verification page, returns the holder’s name, the course and the issue date. No account is needed.
How can I pay?
By card through our secure Stripe checkout, with access opening instantly. Or by bank transfer: we show our account details and an order reference, you send the receipt, and the course opens once the payment is verified.
Can I enrol a team?
Yes. Organisations enrol staff as a cohort, follow progress on a manager dashboard and receive completion reports formatted for an audit file. See corporate training or send an enquiry.
For organisations
Training a whole team on this course?
Enrol staff as a cohort, follow progress from one dashboard and receive completion reports ready for your audit file.
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