October 20-22, 2026
On site at
Cargill
650 Industrial Park Dr.
Blair, NE 68008
Description
Join us for this 3-day training course on the OSHA 29 CFR Part 1910.119 process safety requirements as we cover all 14 elements of the process safety management standard.
- Learn how to effectively implement, evaluate, and audit an OSHA process safety management program at your site location.
- Perform various practical, hands-on and in-plant exercises in combination with instructor-led modules that provide opportunities for participants to practice and reinforce new knowledge, skills, and PSM tools as they are presented and learned.
Who is this training for?
Site and corporate leadership with potential program leaders and team members.
Managers
PSM, EHS and compliance, plant, maintenance, instrumentation & controls, operations, departmental.
Engineers
New & experienced front-line. PSM, EHS, process, plant, maintenance, instrumentation & controls, inspection & testing.
Site Support
Corporate process safety staff, equipment specialists, operators, technicians, Subject Matter Experts, technical contractor management
Learning Outcomes
Gain an in-depth understanding of the 14 elements in the performance-based PSM standard, and learn how to implement, audit, and improve process safety to produce an effective program to meet regulatory, company, and industry standards.
Recognize various types of hazards and risks posed, contributing factors to incidents, and the role of process safety in prevention and learning.
Determine regulatory applicability to facilities, processes, supporting systems, and structures, including options for non-covered processes.
Gain knowledge of process safety resources and best practices, codes, industry standards, and Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP).
Learn various methodologies, techniques, and tools used to identify, evaluate, control, and manage process safety risks and
communicate with and train personnel in resultant changes.
Become informed of the latest thinking from industry and regulators, changes in industry standards and implementation of process safety elements and shifts in regulatory interpretation and enforcement.
Apply course learnings to identify gaps at their company and plant, drive improvements, and enhance process safety performance using metrics.
Cost
Tuition is $1,950 per person.
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 2.1 CEUs (equal to 21 PDHs), often used to maintain professional licenses. Sessions led by an instructor from Advantage Risk Solutions.
Note: Refunds will not be offered for cancelled registrations, but substitutions are allowed at the discretion of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For additional information contact Matthew Jorgensen, 308.293.5884 or mjorgensen@unl.edu
The Instructor
Philip Myers
Advantage Risk Solutions
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.
