Summary
A course covering a broad range of topic areas designed to improve the understanding of the key requirements for effective asset integrity management in high hazard process industries.
Sound asset integrity management is key to ensuring reliable, profitable and productive operations whilst protecting safety, health and the environment. Maintaining asset integrity and minimising downtime requires a careful balance of priorities and a good understanding of risk mitigation and risk management activities.
Below is the HSE definition of asset integrity management:
"Asset integrity management systems outline the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently whilst protecting health, safety and the environment and the means of ensuring that the people, systems, processes, and resources that deliver integrity are in place, in use and will perform when required over the whole life-cycle of the asset."
This course will show delegates the key considerations throughout the full asset life-cycle ranging from initial design and material selection, through to age related damage and deterioration. It aims to identify how the knowledge of vulnerabilities, deterioration, obsolescence and awareness of organisational competence can be used to develop and implement appropriate strategies and good practices.
What the course will cover:
- Understand what is meant by asset integrity management
- Provide an appreciation of how potential threats to mechanical integrity can arise throughout the asset lifecycle
- Provide an appreciation of how the threats to mechanical integrity can be managed
- Provide a fuller understanding of asset management and process safety risk management processes including:
- RBA, RBI and criticality analysis
- Identification and management of deterioration mechanisms
- Inspection, fitness for service assessments
- Maintenance, repairs and MoC
- Competence for integrity management
- Asset life planning
- Reduce the number of hazards and mitigate the risks that arise from equipment failures / loss of primary containment, which can result in:
- Injury to plant operators and maintainers (including third parties);
- Environmental damage and harm to the public
- Business interruption through loss of production
- Negative / adverse publicity
- Ensure statutory and legislative compliance
- Enable economically viable (profitable) production by:
- Reducing CapEx and OpEx costs
- Reducing equipment lifecycle cost of ownership
- Obsolescence management
Training method
The style of the trainers is to encourage participation in the discussions and to use case studies based on actual incidents to broaden delegates’ understanding of the topics, improve knowledge retention, and identify ways of safeguarding asset integrity.
When
Tuesday 24 November 2026, 09:00-17:00
Wednesday 25 November 2026, 08:00-16:00
