Build the foundation to reduce process safety events in your industry.
The CCPS Process Safety Boot Camp is a high-impact, instructor-led introduction to the principles and practices of Risk-Based Process Safety® (RBPS). Designed for industry professionals across operations, engineering, and technical disciplines, this program delivers the essential knowledge needed to apply process safety directly to your role.
The updated curriculum incorporates more than 30 newly integrated CCPS resources, making it the most current and comprehensive RBPS training available. Modern adult‑learning methods—active engagement, scenario‑based exercises, and aligned learning outcomes—ensure participants retain and apply what they learn.
What Participants Gain
• Clear, actionable understanding of RBPS
The Boot Camp translates the 20 elements of RBPS into practical, real‑world concepts that participants can immediately apply in their daily work.
• Defined learning outcomes for real‑world impact
Each module is built around specific outcomes, actionable objectives, and aligned activities that help participants recognize hazards, understand risk, and support safer operations. Updated exercises, discussions, and case studies keep learners active, thinking critically, and connecting concepts to real operational scenarios.
• Modernized content aligned with current industry practice
The curriculum reflects the latest CCPS guidance, terminology, and expectations used across global manufacturing, ensuring participants learn the most up‑to‑date approaches to process safety.
Why It Matters
Process safety is more than compliance. It’s a mindset and a discipline that protects people, communities, and businesses. The boot camp equips participants with the vocabulary, frameworks, and methodologies to engage meaningfully in process safety activities. Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how incidents occur, how risk is managed, and how they can contribute to safer outcomes throughout their careers.
Note: A laptop is required for the in-person training of this course. Students will receive electronic course materials prior to the start of the course.
This course will be taught by one of the instructors listed below:
Course Outcomes
At the end of Process Safety Bootcamp, participants will be able to:
- Define and implement a process safety management system
- Apply the 20 elements of Risk Based Process Safety to your role
- Understand the hazards of a process
- Understand hazard identification and risk analysis methodologies
- Understand the fundamentals of risk management
- Evaluate lessons learned from the case studies
- Apply concepts to reduce the number of process safety events.
Most importantly, participants will be able to apply RPBS management systems to improve performance specific to their responsibilities. Successful completion of this course awards 3.2 CEUs and 32 PDHs.
Industrial employees whose role intersects with process safety including:
- Engineers from all disciplines
- Technical personnel: chemists, technicians, data analysts, inspectors, specialists
- Operators, mechanics, and other hourly roles involving process safety
- Planning, procurement, scheduling
- Safety, health, and environmental personnel
- Front line supervisors, unit leaders, site managers and other operational leaders
Topics covered
The course materials follow a deliberate, RBPS‑aligned progression: beginning with committing to process safety, moving into understanding hazards and analyzing risk, advancing to the practical management of risk, and concluding with learning from experience. This sequence culminates in a capstone project that challenges participants to integrate lessons from the entire course and apply them directly to their own roles.
- Introduction to Risk Based Process Safety
- Process safety management system, governance, leadership & culture, competency, workforce involvement, and stakeholder outreach
- Hazards, risk, process knowledge management and process safety information
- Hazards: toxicity, flammability, reactivity, corrosivity, and other process hazards
- Loss of primary containment, classify process safety events, and how equipment fails
- Source models and consequence assessment
- Regulations, codes, standards, good engineering practices
- Hazard identification and risk analysis
- Process hazard analysis, update versus redo, transient operations, facility siting, and safer technologies and alternatives analysis
- Preventive safeguards
- Mitigative safeguards
- Change management and organizational change
- Asset integrity management
- Human factors, conduct of operations, training and performance assurance, contractor management, safe work practices, and alarm management
- Incident investigation, audits, measurements and metrics, and management review and continuous improvement
- Process safety culture
- Capstone Project
Topics covered
The course materials follow a deliberate, RBPS‑aligned progression: beginning with committing to process safety, moving into understanding hazards and analyzing risk, advancing to the practical management of risk, and concluding with learning from experience. This sequence culminates in a capstone project that challenges participants to integrate lessons from the entire course and apply them directly to their own roles.
- Introduction to Risk Based Process Safety
- Process safety management system, governance, leadership & culture, competency, workforce involvement, and stakeholder outreach
- Hazards, risk, process knowledge management and process safety information
- Hazards: toxicity, flammability, reactivity, corrosivity, and other process hazards
- Loss of primary containment, classify process safety events, and how equipment fails
- Source models and consequence assessment
- Regulations, codes, standards, good engineering practices
- Hazard identification and risk analysis
- Process hazard analysis, update versus redo, transient operations, facility siting, and safer technologies and alternatives analysis
- Preventive safeguards
- Mitigative safeguards
- Change management and organizational change
- Asset integrity management
- Human factors, conduct of operations, training and performance assurance, contractor management, safe work practices, and alarm management
- Incident investigation, audits, measurements and metrics, and management review and continuous improvement
- Process safety culture
- Capstone Project
Day One
7:30 – 8:00
Registration
8:00 – 8:15
Welcoming Remarks
8:15 – 11:30
- Introduction to Process Safety
- Key Concepts and Anatomy of an Incident
- Loss of Containment (and Prevention/Mitigation)
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 5:00
- Management Systems for Process Safety – a Risk-Based Approach
FIRST FOUNDATION BLOCK – COMMIT TO PROCESS SAFETY
- Element 1: Process Safety Culture
- Element 2: Compliance with Standards
- Element 3: Process Safety Competency
- Element 4: Workforce Involvement
- Element 5: Stakeholder Outreach
Day Two
8:00 – 11:30
FIRST FOUNDATION BLOCK--COMMIT TO PROCESS SAFETY (continued)
- Human Factors
- Element 6: Process Safety Knowledge Management
- Inherent Hazards of Chemicals
- Flammability & Combustibility
- Chemical Reactivity Hazards
- Toxicity
- Corrosivity
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 5:00
- Element 6: Process Safety Knowledge Management (continued)
- Process Plant Design Considerations
- Inherently Safer Design Concepts
- Layout & Spacing
- Overpressure & Vacuum
- Fire Prevention & Mitigation
- Hazardous Area Classification
- Static Electricity, Grounding, Bonding, and Inerting
- Flame & Detonation Arrest
- Fireproofing, Firewalls, and Emergency Isolation
SECOND FOUNDATION BLOCK – UNDERSTANDING HAZARDS & RISKS
- Element 7: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA)
- Hazard Identification
Day Three
8:00 – 11:30
- Element 7: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis (HIRA) (continued)
- Analyzing Potential Consequences & Impacts
- Estimating Probability
- Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Risk Tolerance
THIRD FOUNDATION BLOCK – MANAGE RISK
- Element 8: Operating Procedures
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 5:00
- Element 9: Safe Work Practices
- Element 10: Asset Integrity and Reliability
- Element 11: Contractor Management
- Element 12. Training and Performance Assurance
Day Four
8:00 – 11:30
THIRD FOUNDATION BLOCK—MANAGE RISK (continued)
- Element 13: Management of Change
- Element 14 Operational Readiness
- Element 15: Conduct of Operations
- Element 16: Emergency Management
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 5:00
FOURTH FOUNDATION BLOCK—LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE
- Element 17: Incident Investigation
- Element 18: Measures and Metrics
- Element 19: Auditing
- Element 20: Management Reviews and Continuous Improvement
A laptop is required for this course.
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