MasterClass
HSE MASTERCLASS
UAE 2025
Leadership in HSE, process safety and asset integrity for high hazard industry
16th - 18th September 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAE
This course provides continued professional development and attendees who complete the course will receive an appropriate CPD certificate for 24 CPD credits.
Course Overview
Managing Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) risks has become increasingly complex. In any credible global organization, this responsibility must lie with the executive team, supported by the board of directors, and carried out in a consistent and systematic manner. History shows that major incidents can lead to consequences far beyond what management anticipates—often escalating beyond the company’s ability to recover financially and reputationally.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout is a prime example, where the company faced significant financial penalties due to environmental damage, loss of life, and lasting reputational harm.
This three-day course will address the real HSE challenges faced by executive management teams, their subordinate managers, and staff working in global businesses that develop and operate high-hazard facilities across the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil, gas, petrochemical, and related sectors.
It will cover the core elements of HSSEQ management systems for both occupational and process safety, and explain the controls needed to ensure that risks are reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)—through effective oversight of people, processes, and plant.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND ?
This course is designed for senior HSE leaders and managers from the major energy, oil, gas, industrial & petrochemical companies.
- Head/President/Director/VP-HSE
- Chief Sustainability Officer
- Chief Environment Officer
- Engineers with 10-15 years work experience
- Operations Managers
- HSE Team leaders
Roland Martland
MEET THE COURSE LEADER
Chartered UK Safety Professional, Civil Engineer and Process Safety Specialist With 40+ Years Global Experience in the Oil, Gas, Petrochemical and Construction Industries
- Director of Safety for BP International.
- Executive and Leadership positions as Vice President HSSEQ for Bumi Armada, Malaysia
- Senior Management HSE position as Head of Technical Safety, Risk and Asset Integrity for Dong E&P and Head of Health and Safety for Maersk Oil.
- Over 15 years inspecting, auditing and enforcing HSE legislation for the UK Health and Safety Executive and the UK Department of energy , including conducting the Piper A major accident investigation.
- Experience in developing international ISO and API technical and HSE standards and the UK Safety Case Regulations.
- 20+ global experience in training and development of personnel in occupational and Process safety HSE management systems, asset integrity , risk management.
- 2022 UK CEO of the Year for Safety and Risk Services.
METHODOLOGY
Practical Scenarios
Interactive Brain Storming Sessions
Real Time and Universal Case Studies
Market Simulation Exercises
Virtual Presentations
Round Table Discussions
MASTERCLASS OBJECTIVE
- Identify where organizational drift and complacency are quietly taking root—and how to stop it before it becomes a crisis.
- Move beyond lagging indicators and paperwork to lead from the front on real risk.
- Understand why most safety systems fail—not in design, but in execution—and how leadership behavior is the key variable.
- Unpack the lessons from major global safety disasters and connect them to your own operations.
- Build a clear framework to challenge normalized deviation, protect operational discipline, and drive accountability at every level.
- Leave with tools to speak the language of both boardrooms and control rooms—bridging strategy and field-level execution.
COURSE OUTLINE – SESSIONS 1 TO 4
Session 1 - HSE Management Systems
- Elements of HSE Management Systems – The POPMAR model
- Key policy documents covering Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality
- The Governance triangle of policies, standards, procedures, and guidance.
- HSE Golden Rules – company practices and international guidance
- The global HSE regulatory framework – risk management using prescriptive versus ALARP
Case Study 1 : Piper Alpha – The accident that created the basis of risks being ALARP
Session 2 - Aspects of Environmental Management Systems, EMSs
- Current issues for environmental compliance
- Building an EMS to align with ISO 14001 requirements.
- Dealing with major environmental incidents such as oil spill response
- Application of Best Available Techniques, BAT assessments to projects.
- Environmental Management and ESG Principles
Case Study 2 : Major Environmental oil spill event due to MOC failure – HILO BAY HAWAII
Session 3 - Managing Occupational Health and Injuries
- Occupational safety and health hazards, regulations, and standards.
- Specific hazards, incidents, and risk controls in the oil industry.
- Occupational exposure and health risk assessments.
- Epidemic control and management.
- Dealing with injury classifications to maintain data accuracy.
Case Study 3 : Team breakout – OSHA occupational accidents and classification
Session 4 - Management of Contractor HSE Performance
- When/What to Outsource to a Contractor – Energy Institute approach
- Key policy documents covering Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality
- The Governance triangle of policies, standards, procedures, and guidance.
- HSE Golden Rules – company practices and international guidance
- The global HSE regulatory framework – risk management using prescriptive versus ALARP
Case Study 4 : Deepwater Horizon – Failures of Leadership and Control of Work
COURSE OUTLINE – SESSIONS 5 TO 8
Session 5 - Human Factors in HSE Management Systems
- The 12 Essential Elements of an Effective Safety Culture
- Leader’s Impact on organizational culture and Human behavior
- Human factors engineering, control room/alarm design, and ergonomics.
- Why design and construction to industry standards is not the solution without Considering human factors
Case Study 5.1 : Formosa Plastics Plant explosion – human errors caused by plant design and operation
Session 6 - Process Safety Management Systems
- Process safety leadership – International Best Practices and Auditing
- Process safety hazard identification and risk analysis.
- US Chemical Safety Board and UK Energy Institute process safety management systems
- Conducting process safety incident investigations – why-why event trees and causation factors
Case Study 6 : The Flixborough Chemical Plant Explosion – the incident that created the major hazards legislation. Linking asset integrity with process safety
Session 7 - Delivering Human Performance in Operations
- Effective use of management visits to improve human performance
- Dynamic risk assessments – the Mind-Safe technique
- Safety Critical Task Analysis
- Resilience through an effective Management of Change, MOC, process
- Continuous improvement using the Lessons Learned process.
Case Study 7.1 : Undertaking a Safety Critical Task Identification/Analysis for a major oil/gas facility – a working tool to adopt within your company.
Session 8 - Becoming HSE Leaders in Your Company
- “Hearts versus Minds” – why actions work but data reporting may not
- Personal Versus Process Safety – How Leaders Manage the Different Risks
- Process safety leadership visits – execution and content
- Avoiding organizational drift and its impact on process safety
Case Study 8 : Boeing 737 Max Aircraft crashes – drifting into disaster
COURSE OUTLINE – SESSIONS 9 TO 13
Session 9 - Developing high performance in HSE
- Senior management HSE visits -requirements and outcomes
- HSE metrics for occupational and major accident safety management
- Key Metrics for Asset Integrity Management
- Principles of High Reliability Organisations
Case Study 9 : Failure to learn in organizations – the Texas City refinery explosion
Session 10 - Competency Management and Development Systems
- What is competency and capability?
- Contents of a competency management standard & ISO Certification
- Legislation requirements for competency in the oil/gas industry
- Evaluating process safety practical skills during the project and operational phases
Case Study 10.1 : Errors of Judgement – Avoiding Cognitive Biases.
Case Study 10.2 : Competency during Operations – Step Change Video
Session 11 - Key Operational HSE Risk Management Controls
- Control of Work systems
- Design and implementation of a Management of Change, MOC, process
- Operational Risk Assessments, ORA – best practice model
- Continuous improvement using the Lessons Learned process.
Case Study 11 : Major accident due to failures in operational risk controls – olefins plant, Louisiana USA
Session 12 - The Future of HSE Management
- System complexity – can we ever make systems inherently safe and reliable?
- Emerging risks – cyber security’s impact on major accidents and asset performance
- Using Artificial Intelligence AI, remote operations and enhanced data management to make plants inherently safer
- Energy Transitions and Emissions Management
Case Study 12 : Cyber security Risks and the Human Element – recent incidents and Mitigation measures plus application methodology.
Session 13 - Masterclass Close-out What did we learn?
- Re-cap of key learnings from the 3-day course.
- Course Q&A Course Assessment and Close-out
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- 5 Star Luncheon
- Receive an appropriate CPD certificate for 24 CPD credits.
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