Project Health, Safety and Environmental Review

On many projects, HSE is treated mainly as a site supervision issue. Hazard studies are carried out late or as a formality, design decisions that fix major risks are made without HSE input, contractor HSE plans are approved but not verified, and review actions stay open for months. Environmental and social commitments made during approval are forgotten by the time construction starts.

This programme treats HSE review as a lifecycle discipline. It moves through five stages: setting up project HSE management and review planning, reviewing hazards and design at the early stages, reviewing environmental and social aspects, verifying HSE performance during construction and with contractors, and reviewing readiness for start-up, handover and operation.

Built on recognised practice. The programme references ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management system requirements, ISO 19011 guidance for auditing, IEC 61882 for HAZOP studies, the ILO guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems, the IFC Performance Standards and EHS Guidelines, and widely used industry good practice for project HSE reviews. Participants learn how to use these references to plan and run reviews, not only to cite them.

Decisions this programme improves. Which HSE reviews a project needs and when; how deep each review should go; whether design risks have been reduced as low as reasonably practicable; whether a contractor is ready to mobilise; which findings must be closed before the next gate; and whether a facility is safe to start up.

How it is delivered. Twenty hours across five sessions, built around one running case: an industrial or infrastructure project moving from design to start-up. Participants plan the project HSE review programme, facilitate a hazard identification exercise, assess an environmental and social review, audit a contractor's HSE performance and conduct a pre-start-up review.

In-house option. For organisations, the programme can be tailored to your own project gate process, HSE standards, contractor requirements and typical project types, and delivered to project, engineering and HSE teams together.

Who Should Attend

HSE leaders: HSE managers, project HSE leads and HSE advisers on capital projects

Project leaders: project directors, project managers and construction managers

Engineering professionals: engineering managers, process safety and design engineers

Environmental specialists responsible for environmental and social compliance on projects

Assurance professionals: HSE auditors and technical assurance staff

Objectives

Plan a project HSE review programme aligned with the project lifecycle and decision gates

Define HSE roles and responsibilities for owners, designers and contractors

Select and facilitate appropriate hazard identification and risk assessment techniques, including HAZID and HAZOP

Apply the hierarchy of controls and the ALARP principle to design decisions

Review environmental and social impact assessments and track commitments through delivery

Assess contractor HSE capability at prequalification, award and mobilisation

Plan and conduct HSE audits and inspections during construction using ISO 19011 principles

Analyse leading and lagging HSE indicators and identify trends

Conduct a pre-start-up safety review and assess operational readiness

Write clear review findings, track corrective actions to closure and report to project leadership

Course Outline

Planning for Safe Delivery: Project HSE Management and Review Strategy

Why project incidents happen: lessons from major accident investigations
HSE across the project lifecycle and decision gates
Project HSE plans and their link to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001
Roles and responsibilities of owners, designers, contractors and reviewers
Planning the HSE review programme: types, timing and depth of reviews
HSE leadership and culture in project organisations

Designing Out Hazards: Early-Stage Hazard and Design Reviews

Hazard identification techniques: HAZID, what-if and checklists
HAZOP methodology and facilitation principles
Risk assessment matrices and their limitations
Hierarchy of controls, inherent safety and ALARP demonstration
Constructability, maintainability and safety in design reviews
Managing review actions and design changes

Environmental and Social Review

Environmental and social impact assessment: scope and quality review
Environmental and social management plans and commitment registers
IFC Performance Standards and EHS Guidelines as reference points
Waste, water, emissions, dust, noise and biodiversity on project sites
Community health, safety and worker welfare, including accommodation and heat stress
Monitoring environmental compliance during construction

Verifying Performance: Contractors, Audits and Indicators

Contractor HSE prequalification, evaluation and mobilisation reviews
Permit to work, high-risk activity controls and simultaneous operations
Planning and conducting HSE audits and inspections to ISO 19011 principles
Leading and lagging indicators and HSE performance reporting
Incident investigation and root cause analysis
Digital inspection tools, site data and analytics: uses and limits

Ready to Operate: Start-Up, Handover and Learning

Pre-start-up safety reviews and operational readiness
Management of change during commissioning and start-up
Emergency preparedness and response for new facilities
Transfer of HSE information and responsibilities to operations
Close-out reviews and lessons learned for future projects
Action plan: strengthening project HSE review in your organisation

Competencies

Project HSE review planning across the lifecycle

Hazard identification and HAZOP facilitation

Design risk reduction and ALARP demonstration

Environmental and social impact review

Contractor HSE evaluation and oversight

HSE auditing and inspection

HSE performance indicators and reporting

Pre-start-up safety review and operational readiness

Corrective action tracking and lessons learned

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