1. Mastering HAZOP & Risk Ranking
📌 Gain a comprehensive understanding of HAZOP, emphasizing safety, environmental, and financial aspects.
✔ Learn how intent-driven recommendations enhance risk reduction.
✔ Explore structured methodologies for identifying hazards in high-risk facilities.
✔ Understand optional techniques to improve HAZOP meetings for better efficiency.
2. Conducting Effective HAZOP Studies
📌 Discover a step-by-step approach to conducting a successful HAZOP study.
✔ Learn how multidisciplinary teams analyze process deviations using guidewords like flow and pressure.
✔ Identify unmitigated hazards and document them accurately for precise evaluation.
✔ Implement independent and auditable safeguards for effective risk control.
3. Beyond HAZOP: Extending Hazard Management
📌 HAZOP is just the beginning—take hazard management to the next level.
✔ Understand why hazard control should go beyond the HAZOP study.
✔ Prioritize recommendations to address critical gaps with immediate actions for severe risks.
✔ Ensure long-term risk mitigation with structured implementation strategies.
Meet Louise Whiting your course facilitator
Louise has over 11 years of experience in major oil and gas operators (BP and Shell). She is a Chartered member of the IChemE and holds the Professional Process Safety Engineer status from the institute. She has extensive experience in operations as well as experience in wells and projects. Majority of this experience is in upstream oil and gas onshore, offshore, North Sea and Iraq. She transitioned to technical or process safety just after achieving chartered status and has experience applying her skills in a range of environments. Louise is a Fellow of the Safety and Reliability Society, Chair 2022/23, Membership Chair. Louise holds a variety of qualifications including chartership, professional process safety engineer and certified functional safety engineer. Louise was managing director of Barberton Limited for 3 years then moving to found Deedah PSM Ltd in 2023.
Course Curriculum
- HAZOP Studies Course Introduction (1:19)
- M1: What is a HAZOP study? (18:59)
- M2: Why should you employ HAZOP? (14:43)
- M3: When should you employ HAZOP? (5:12)
- M4: Who should be present at the HAZOP? (5:29)
- M5: Where does HAZOP fit into the Safety Lifecycle? (7:15)
- M6: How to make the HAZOP study a success from preparation to action closure? (26:46)
- M7: HAZOP Study Worked Example (15:29)
- M7: Continuous HAZOP Session (94:19)
Here is what course takers are saying about the course.
'' Great breakdown of various aspects of process safety in real life incidents, how these could be improved and the learnings we need to take from these events. Very interesting and informative session. ''
Senior EC&I Engineer at Johnson Matthey
'' Louise is clearly knowledgeable and experienced and I look forward to learning more from her. Functional Safety Engineer at 6Engineering
... certainly provoked food for thought. ''

Anonymous
'' This is one of the best HAZOP sessions that I have ever attended. I have been a HAZOP chairman for around 50 workshops & I have learnt a lot from Ms. Louise as a Chairman. ''
Corporate Risk Advisor at ADNOC
'' It's essential for frontline leaders to receive technical support that's both clear and practical in order to navigate through the daily operational challenges. Louise was consistently able to provide this and at the same time remain committed and work with the team to find solutions. Louise is a very strong Process Safety Professional for sure. ''
Oil and Gas Leader at Shell
'' I appreciated the demonstrative approach. That helped to understand the context and purpose, and I was able to find the answers to all my questions along the way. Anonymous Considering the limited time-line I think Louise did a great job of summarising the key points, and providing a useful real life example that can be transferred to any situation. She was more than happy to engage with different questions, and offer insights, which demonstrated the depth of her understanding, and in that sense it was a true masterclass. Very grateful for the experience. ''
Anonymous
'' Good value, and efficient presentation of how to put LOPA into practise. Anonymous Louise was a fantastic leader, she was very informative and always took time to answer questions in detail, giving very helpful answers! Really appreciated her sharing some of her knowledge with us. Anonymous
Louise Whiting explained everything in a very easy to understand way. She was patient and took time to answer all our questions ''

Anonymous