Develop and implement a comprehensive and effective, Process Safety Management plan today!
A Process Safety Management Course
developed by a world leading expert!
12 Topics - 55 Modules
SafetyTalks provides a wide range of bite-sized safety lessons – a rich resource of thought-provoking ideas and observations by world leading safety expert, Professor Andrew Hopkins. It supports the identification and management of critical controls that can either prevent a serious incident occurring or minimise the consequences.
Safety Talks is delivered in a practical way to empower your organisation to create an effective Safety Management Plan.
Why Choose Safety Talks?
Learn from world ‘process safety’ expert
Improve your corporate safety culture
Learn how real global disasters could have been Prevented
One-off licence provides cost saving training in perpertuity
Flexible training applications - onsite and distance learning options
Content is relevant to all organisational levels from contractor to CEO
Created by Professor Andrew Hopkins
and Future Media
Professor Andrew Hopkins
Key Achievements
Recipient of the 2020 Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award – the highest honour offered by the Australian Institute of Health & Safety (AIHS)
Expert witness at the Royal Commission into the 1998 Exxon gas plant explosion near Melbourne
Consultant specifically as an organisational factors expert to the US Chemical Safety Board in its investigation of the BP Texas City Refinery disaster of 2005, and also for its investigation into the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010
Over 60 published works on safety, issues management, disaster management & prevention including international best-seller "Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster".
Awarded the European Process Safety Centre for his “extraordinary contributions to process safety”. This was the first time the award had been given to someone outside Europe.
Consulted for major companies in the mining, petroleum, chemical and electrical industries, as well as for Defence.
He speaks regularly to audiences around the world about the human and organisational causes of major accidents.
He is an honorary fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to process safety and to the analysis of process safety related incidents”.
Internationally recognised and respected
“Andrew Hopkins has become the pre-eminent voice in making the upward journey through the rubble of disaster to find those links with management decision-making that set the risk wheel into movement decades prior to an event.”
“Professor Hopkins is a major national asset. His work on the causes of disastrous accidents has made him internationally known – an element of our national capacity to intellectually ‘punch above our weight’ ”
“To paraphrase Professor Andrew Hopkins whose work “Failure to Learn: the BP Texas City Disaster” you should all be reading, workplace culture is not just an education program that gets everyone to be more risk aware and think “safety first”. Hopkins and the Center for Chemical Process Safety have defined culture simply as “the way we do things around here””
Professor Hopkins advised the US Chemical Safety Board’s investigation into these disaster
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(Gulf of Mexico)
The worst environmental disaster in history killing 11 people, injuring 170 others and and causing immeasurable ecological damage.
Due to the months-long spill, along with adverse effects from the response and cleanup activities, extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and fishing and tourism industries was reported
As of 2018, cleanup costs, charges and penalties had cost the company more than $65 billion.
BP Refinery Explosion
(Texas City)
The Texas City Refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a hydrocarbon vapor cloud was ignited and violently exploded at the ISOM isomerization process unit at BP's Texas City refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.
Consulting firm Telos had examined conditions at the plant and released a report in January 2005 which found numerous safety issues, including "broken alarms, thinned pipe, chunks of concrete falling, bolts dropping 60 feet (18 m) and staff being overcome with fumes."
The report's co-author stated, "We have never seen a site where the notion 'I could die today' was so real."
What you get
Safety Talks Contents
User Guide - Contents include a comprehensive user guide to assist the facilitator in conducting an effective program.
Videos - Professor Andrew Hopkins features in video clips as he delivers his thought-provoking proposals and observations on various topics. Each topic is presented on a 2-6 minute video, enabling ability to learn specific topics in a short amount of time.
Support Material - The support material accompanying each topic will enable both the participant and facilitator to familiarise themselves and actively engage in more detail with the various topics and issues raised in the videos.
This consists of the following: script for each video consisting of Professor Hopkins’ dialogue; discussion questions and activities for each topic; some reference material.
The discussion questions suggest steps towards creating an action plan by the participants and bring together the conclusions of what needs to be done in their organisation.
Suggested Implementation
The process consists of the facilitator utilising the videos and then conducting discussion sessions and activities.
The support material contains the script of the video, acting as a summary of the key lessons, and discussion questions and activities to re-enforce and implement the learning throughout the organisation.
Suggested publishing options for the content include: forum, eLearning style, safety meeting, email.
Our program provides you with: Suggested Publishing Options for the Content, Support Material for Easy Implementation, Ideal Approaches to Preparation and Familiarisation, Developing an Action Plan and Additional Reference Material.
Alternate Approaches for Use
Our thoughts on alternate approaches to use that can reinforce the safety culture include: via a web based training program, as part of monthly safety meetings, as part of monthly safety reminder e-newsletters, as part of email based training programs across the company’s intranet, integrated into existing training programs.
