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You’ll walk through the process for performing Management of Change (MOC) reviews and evaluations, tips, and best practices for MOC programs, and the pitfalls and challenges in program implementation. You’ll also learn how to identify types of changes, customize a program to meet your facility’s needs, manage documentation and paperwork, handle temporary and emergency changes, monitor the metrics of your program and tackle common weaknesses and effectiveness issues.

Through several case studies, you’ll examine historical process incidents where the absence of an effective Management of Change process resulted in serious consequences. By identifying the shortcomings and errors in these Management of Change programs, you’ll better understand how the concepts presented in this course could have helped to prevent these accidents and how lessons learned can be applied in your own facility.

 

  • To understand the Management of Change element in a process safety management program
  • To identify types of changes that do—and do not—require a Management of Change review
  • How to discuss factors that contribute to effective Management of Change review
  • The best review practices and challenges associated with implementing effective Management of Change programs

Any beginning or experienced engineer involved in health and safety, especially in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, and agricultural industries. It will be especially useful to:

  • Engineers
  • Environmental Health & Safety Managers
  • Production Managers
  • Operations Managers
  • Supervisors

Module 1: An Introduction to Management of Change
1.     Introduction
2.     Management of Change Overview
a.      RBPS approach to MOC
b.     Meeting Regulatory and Corporate Requirements
3.     Understanding the MOC Process
a.      Primary Principles of an MOC Program
b.     Typical Workflow
c.      Overview of Review Activities
4.     Performing and Executing an MOC
a.      Initial and Classification Review
                                                    i.     Identifying Types of Changes
                                                  ii.     Replacement in Kind
1.     Examples
                                                iii.     Example Form
b.     Hazard Review - Analyses of Change
c.      Authorization Review
d.     Closeout and Implementation
5.     Considerations for MOC Programs
a.      Customize Program to Facility Needs
b.     Documentation and Paperwork
c.      Temporary Changes
d.     Emergency Changes
e.      Integration with Related Programs
                                                    i.     Pre-Startup Safety Review
                                                  ii.     Other Work Processes
6.     Monitoring MOC Programs
a.      Metrics
b.     Common Weaknesses/Effectiveness Issues
7.     Summary
8.     Quiz
 
 
Module 2: Application of Management of Change – A Case Study Approach
 
1.     Introduction
2.     Flixborough
a.      Process background
b.     Proposed change
c.      MOC evaluation
d.     Incident/failure description and analysis
e.      Lessons learned
3.     Geismar
a.      Process background
b.     Proposed change
c.      MOC evaluation
d.     Incident/failure description and analysis
e.      Lessons learned
4.     Kansas City Hyatt
a.      Process background
b.     Proposed change
c.      MOC evaluation
d.     Incident/failure description and analysis
e.      Lessons learned
5.     Summary
6.     Quiz
 

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  • Course ID:
    ELA156_V01
  • Source:
    CCPS - Center for Chemical Process Safety
  • Language:
    English
  • Skill Level:
    Basic
  • Duration:
  • CEUs:
    0.02
  • PDHs:
    2.00
  • Accrediting Agencies:

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