Process Safety Management (PSM)

Process Safety Management (PSM) is a leadership-critical discipline that protects people, assets, operational continuity, and corporate reputation by preventing low-frequency, high-consequence events in complex, hazard-rich operations. This course provides an executive-level, end-to-end view of how to design, implement, and sustain a robust PSM system that aligns safety performance with business reliability, regulatory readiness, and decision-making quality across all organizational levels. Participants will explore how strong governance, disciplined risk identification, effective barriers, and consistent operational control convert safety expectations into measurable outcomes and predictable execution. The program addresses common challenges such as inconsistent compliance, weak learning from incidents, change introduced without adequate risk review, and misalignment between frontline realities and leadership intent, while also highlighting opportunities to strengthen culture, improve operational resilience, and reduce business volatility through systematic hazard management. By focusing on clear priorities, practical controls, and performance accountability, the course enables leaders and technical professionals to set credible targets, allocate resources intelligently, and embed process safety into everyday management routines without slowing operational performance.

This course is designed for senior leaders, plant and operations managers, HSE and process safety managers, engineering and maintenance leaders, project and commissioning teams, reliability and integrity professionals, risk and compliance specialists, supervisors and frontline leaders, and technical staff responsible for high-hazard operations, asset management, and operational governance.

• Strengthens governance and accountability for major-accident risk management across operations.

• Reduces operational disruption and high-impact losses through stronger prevention and barrier integrity.

• Improves audit readiness and consistency of compliance through standardized PSM processes.

• Enhances decision quality for changes, startups, and abnormal operations using structured risk controls.

• Increases organizational learning and corrective-action effectiveness through disciplined investigations.

• Builds sustainable capability and leadership alignment that supports resilient, reliable performance.

• Develops practical competence to identify and manage major-accident hazards and critical controls.

• Enhances confidence to lead PSM discussions with executives, teams, and stakeholders.

• Improves ability to evaluate risk and prioritize actions based on credible scenarios and evidence.

• Strengthens capability to manage change, operating discipline, and procedural compliance effectively.

• Builds skill in incident investigation, causal analysis, and action tracking for measurable closure.

• Expands professional credibility through a structured understanding of PSM systems and performance metrics.

Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom / Online / Blended