NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety - IOG

Level: Advanced | Type: Classroom | Discipline: Health Safety and Environment

Course Objective

  • The International Oil and Gas Certificate is aimed primarily at managers, supervisors, and health and safety advisers with safety responsibilities in the oil and gas industry.
  • The qualification focuses on operational process safety and is intended to enable learners to apply and implement effective process safety management across all areas of their operation, anywhere in the world.
  • This qualification provides the underpinning knowledge, which when combined with experience enables holders to identify, evaluate and control a wide range of workplace hazards.
  • It is based around international standards and management systems that enable the effective discharge of workplace safety responsibilities both onshore and offshore.
  • Globally, employers in the oil and gas industries find that the International Oil and Gas Certificate can improve the safety culture of their organization by providing line management and staff with a sound understanding of operational safety management.
  • These qualifications are developed based on extensive research with health and safety professionals, employers, professional bodies, and regulators to ensure that they remain relevant, rigorous as well as achievable, and practical.
The following points shall be discussed in the course:
  • Learning from Incidents
  • Hazards Inherent in Oil and Gas
  • Risk Management Techniques.
  • An Organization’s Documented Evidence.
  • Contractor Management
  • Process Safety Management
  • Permit-to-Work Procedures
  • Principles of Safe Shift Handover
  • Plant Operations and Maintenance
  • Start-Up and Shut-Down
  • Failure Modes
  • Other Types of Failures
  • Safety-Critical Equipment Controls
  • Safe Storage of Hydrocarbons
  • Fire Hazards, Risks, and Control
  • Furnace and Boiler Operations
  • Fire and Explosion in The Oil and Gas Industries
  • Emergency Response
  • Marine transport
  • Land transport
Activities
  • Classroom with Theoretical and Practical Implementation

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  • This qualification is for those working in the Oil and Gas (or related) industries, who need to gain a sound understanding of the principles of operational health and safety that apply in their specialist area.
  • For some, the International Oil and Gas Certificate can be an important step towards establishing a lifelong professional career in occupational health and safety. Some who take their International Oil and Gas Certificate progress on to one of our Diploma level qualifications.
ELEMENT 1: HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN CONTEXT
  • Learning from Incidents
  • Hazards inherent in oil and gas
  • Risk management techniques used in the oil and gas industries
  • Safety cases and safety reports
ELEMENT 2: HYDROCARBON PROCESS SAFETY 1
  • Contractor management
  • Process safety management (PSM)
  • Role and Purpose of a permit-to-work system
  • Key principles of shift handover
  • Plant operations and maintenance
ELEMENT 3: HYDROCARBON PROCESS SAFETY 2
  • Failure modes
  • Safety-critical equipment controls
  • Safe storage of hydrocarbons
  • Furnace and boiler operations
  • ELEMENT 4: FIRE PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE
  • Fire and explosion risk in the oil and gas industries
  • Emergency response
ELEMENT 5: LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT OPERATIONS
  • Marine transport
  • Land transport

  • Basic Recommended minimum standards of English Equivalent to an International English Language Testing System score of 5.0 or higher in IELTS tests
  • The course will require learners to undertake some research. 
  • They will require at least some access to the Internet resources for this purpose.

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