OCTOBER 22-23, 2025

Process Safety Management-Incident Investigation

Workers at ethanol plant

Description:

Join us for this 2-day course as we continue our OSHA 29CFR 1910.119 Process Safety Management series by expanding upon the regulatory element of Incident Investigation. With this management and oversight training course:

  • Learn how to properly plan, execute, and utilize Incident Investigation activities-methods at your plant site, incorporating the latest regulatory interpretations and trends.
     
  • Perform practical, hands-on exercises in combination with instructor-led modules that provide opportunities for participants to practice and reinforce Incident Investigation tools as they are presented an

 

Who is this training for?

Managers – PSM, EHS and compliance, plant, maintenance, instrumentation & controls, operations, departmental.

Engineers – New and experienced front-line, PSM, maintenance, instrumentation & controls, inspection & testing, EHS, process, plant, others implementing Incident Investigation(s)

Auditing, QA, MI Program Support – Auditors of regulatory and/or company policy compliance, inspectors, investigation Quality Assurance, corporate process safety support staff.

Watch highlights of 2023's Mechanical Integrity workshop

which covered the OSHA 29CFR 1910.119 Process Safety Management series by expanding upon the regulatory element of Mechanical Integrity.

With this management and oversight training course,

  • Participants learned how to properly plan, execute, and utilize MI activities-methods at the plant site, incorporating the latest regulatory interpretations and trends.
  • Perform practical, hands-on exercises in combination with instructor-led modules that provide opportunities for participants to practice and reinforce MI tools as they were presented and learned.

 


Learning Outcomes:

After attending this course, participants will:

  • Understand incident causation and the role of Incident Investigation in 
    preventing future process safety incidents.
  • Gain in-depth knowledge regarding Incident Investigation and management (including legal and enforcement considerations) and how to oversee, lead, or participate in investigations.
  • Be informed of various methodologies and tools for Incident Investigation and strengths and weaknesses in application.
  • Use Root Cause Analysis to determine the root cause of incidents in order to facilitate understanding and changes to prevent reoccurrence.
  • Learn about the components of Incident Investigations to enhance or improve specific aspects or entire programs for compliance and for organizational learning.

     

 

 

  • Learn about the latest thinking regarding Organizational Management of Change within Process Safety Management.
  • Ascertain how to handle witness management - including identifying them, witness statements and interviews, human factors, and follow up.
  • Be able to address evidence identification, collection, documentation, and management including physical, paper, electronic, positional, and other 
    evidence.
  • Learn how to construct a timeline and sequence and utilize various techniques in hypothesis formulation and testing.
  • Develop effective recommendations and reporting for implementation to prevent  future incidents and for understanding and sharing of lessons learned.

     

Phillip Myers

Phillip Myers

About the Instructor

Philip M. Myers is President, Principal Consultant, and Founder of Advantage Risk Solutions (2000), a process safety, risk analysis, and risk management consultancy based Sunbury, Ohio. He has 34 years of experience serving industry from the project and plant level to the corporate board room. Mr. Myers has developed and instructed PHA, process safety, and risk analysis training courses in the US and internationally for over 20 years.

He also advises industry associations and governments. He is highly experienced in hazard identification and risk analysis techniques such as HAZOP, LOPA, Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), BowTie/Barrier Analysis, Consequence modeling, Facility Siting, Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), and Business/Financial Risk Assessment (FRA).

Mr. Myers was trained in PHA/HAZOP by leaders of ICI, where HAZOP was invented. Mr. Myers has long served in leadership and as a technical contributor to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS) and other professional conferences, journals, and publications in process safety and risk analysis.

He served as the Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) overall Symposium Chair in 2007 and Co-Chair in 2006, and as a technical Session Chair for every other PPSS held since 2003. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer for the AIChE Safety and Health Division (focusing on process safety) since 2011, and previously served as Director (2007-09).

Mr. Myers has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University, and a Management Certificate from the Executive Education Program at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.

Cost:

$1,800 per participant.
 

Tuition Reimbursement: The Nebraska Ethanol Board is offering a tuition reimbursement of $900 per person upon completion for employees of qualifying ethanol plants located in Nebraska.  Registration and reimbursement funds are limited to 20 qualifying registrants. Certificates of Completion will be issued awarding 1.3 CEUs (equal to 13 PDHs), often used to maintain professional licenses. Sessions led by an instructor from Advantage Risk Solutions.  


 

 

Registration

Certificates of Completion will be issued awarding 1.3 CEUs (equal to 13 PDHs), often used to maintain professional licenses. Sessions led by an instructor from Advantage Risk Solutions.

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