Process Improvement Institute - Process Safety (PSM) Consulting/Training

Training & consulting services in process safety management (PSM), PSM auditing, process hazard analysis (PHA), hazard operability study (HAZOP), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), PHA revalidation, root cause analysis (RCA), incident investigation, procedure development and writing, management of change (MOC), layer of protection analysis (LOPA), mechanical integrity, and much more.

Comprehensive Training Curriculum

Process Improvement Institute (PII) and its instructors have trained more than 7000 technical and management staff in how to effectively implement PSM, safety management systems, and equipment reliability programs. The training section of this web site describes our many standardized courses. If these courses do not fully meet your needs, we can customize or adjust course content, exercises, and schedules accordingly for a course taught just for you.

Consulting & Contracting Services

Following classroom training, your staff may need coaching (hands-on training) to help complete the training that has begun. And, PII can provide contract (consulting) services to support or augment your staff if they are over-loaded or if you need or want an independent review of your processes or management systems. We have performed hundreds of hazard and risk analyses and we have helped many companies implement management systems to control risk to people, assets, production, quality, and the environment.

Near-Miss Reporting Survey

We are currently updating the data and resulting paper on getting near misses reported. (An accident is an event that caused harm to people, property, product, or environment; a near miss is a sequence of events that could have, but did not, cause harm in this instance.) If you are an operating site or organization and have data that you can offer on accidents and near misses, we would like your input. Any information you supply will be kept completely confidential.

Process Safety Management Blog

Keep up-to-date on Current Events, News, Accidents and Hints from PII by visiting our Blog.

Some of Our Clients

Testimonials – What Our Clients Say About Us

PII provides outstanding process safety and loss control training and consulting services. I have worked extensively with Bill Bridges and his colleagues from 1996 until now, 2016, and have found their expertise and standard of care to be second to none. They have customized training for CCP and have provided hands-on help with PHAs (HAZOPs), PHA revalidations, and continual improvement with PSM. One aspect of PII that we greatly appreciate is that they do not charge additional licensing fees (as others do) for use of and training with standard industry methods such as Root Cause Analysis. PII is considered part of our team at CCP. We highly recommend PII.

Mike Gromacki, President, Dixie Chemicals

We use PII nearly exclusively for our PHA/HAZOP needs. Since 2014, PII has led and documented the PHA/HAZOPs of our existing natural gas collection sites and our large gas process plant, and are now working on the PHA/HAZOP of our natural gas liquid separation plant. PII performed the LOPA and the more than 800 SIL Verifications on the gas processing plant. And PII performed high level risk assessments of the gas plant to help us decide between alternatives for proposed expansions. PII does very thorough work and are not afraid to take a hard stance on important issues; this has helped PlusPetrol make significant improvements to process safety. We especially appreciate the way they cover PHA/HAZOP of startup, shutdown, and online maintenance; we would not want to miss possible accident scenarios for these modes of operation. The value of using PII is quite high.

Mary Stella Corsaro, Global Safety & Operations Integrity Manager, PlusPetrol (Argentina and Peru)

Bill Bridges …provided us with very valuable guidance and information that will allow us to develop a world-class incident investigation team and get closer to our goal of an injury-free environment.

Edith Wharton, Safety and Health, Weyerhaeuser Paper Company

Bill Bridges is an excellent instructor.

M. H. Lorigo, United Technologies Corporation

Explore this site to see all the ways PII can team with your company to meet your needs in controlling risk. And if you don’t know us already, come to one of our many courses offered publicly to check us out first-hand.

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