
An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Operational Excellence in the Process Industry
Excellence and Learning from Disasters – Applications of techniques in Real Case Studies
UPCOMING SESSIONS
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23-27 Feb 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 06-10 Apr 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 29 Jun-03 Jul 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 26-30 Oct 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12-16 Jan 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 11-15 May 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 10-14 Aug 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
This Operational Excellence in the Process Industry training course focuses on the best practices from High Reliability Organizations (HROs) in both excellence and safety. HROs are industries such as oil and gas, process, nuclear, and aviation, known for maintaining high reliability despite operating in hazardous environments. The training course demonstrates how organizations can learn from failures, near misses, and other industries. Topics covered include safety, risk management, reliability, and quality management. It will explore best practices at both strategic and operational levels, as well as in key areas like management skills, reliability, decision analysis, benchmarking, and information systems. The course is designed to be highly interactive and hands-on, with a focus on applying theory to real-world scenarios.
This training course will feature:
- Understanding of safety, risk and continuity of operations
- Development of people management skills
- Mastering techniques that can enhance plant reliability
- How to conduct benchmarking and quality systems auditing
- Applying decision analysis approaches
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the benefits of acquiring best practices from HROs
- Show how activities play a part in helping their organization perform at a higher level
- Determine methods for generating and implementing effective performance metrics
- Use a process improvement methodology back at work
- Analyze critically the methodologies employed in the organization & implement improvements
Designed for
This Operational Excellence in the Process Industry training course is highly recommended for all Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and Technical Support staff. Also, this training course is applicable to any person actively involved or contemplating safety, performance measurement, improvement and/or quality and reliability related activities.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Operations Professionals
- Process Professionals
- Reliability & Maintenance Professionals
- Safety Professionals
- Other professionals involved in process improvement
Learning Methods
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes tutor facilitation, direct input, delegate discussions, case studies, reviews, interactive exercises and video.
The Course Outline
- Safety first
- Learning from failures
- Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents
- Taxonomy of theories
- Risk assessment, Choice of case studies
- Types of recommendations
- Coping with risks
- Defining reliability and resilience
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Reliability Blok Diagram (RBD)
- Practical examples and case studies
- Case from Aviation industry
- Case from Process industry
- Case from Oil and Gas industry
- Case from Nuclear industry
- Group work and group presentations
- Attributes of the generic lessons
- Best practice of learning from failures from different industries
- Best practice can be learned from worst practice
- The ten generic lessons and the three underpinning factors
- What is benchmarking? History of benchmarking
- Different methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other
- Adaptive organizational learning
- Routine dynamics
- The Decision-Making Grid (DMG) model
- A framework for analyzing near-misses and failures
- High severity with low frequency versus high severity with high frequency
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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