LOPA training
Information All Courses
- Length: 1 or 2 Days
- CPD: 8 or 16 hours
- Personal Development Program(s): HRA, SILComp
- Exam: Yes
- Certification: Specialist
- Safety passport: Yes
- Availability: Public, In house
Course Description
This one day course covers the fundamentals of Layers of Protection Analysis or LOPA. You will learn the fundamentals of LOPA according to the best practices in industry. This course combines theory with practical work. When you complete this course you will understand what LOPA means, how it is applied and what it means for your company and your job.
What you will get
All participants get:
- Course material in printed format
- Exam
- Certificate based on exam results
- Safety passport
Optional:
- LOPA Study plan template
- LOPA Worksheet template
- LOPA Report template
Knowledge Certification

Certified LOPA Specialist
This course comes with an exam and personal knowledge certification.
- Specialist Certificate for those that obtain 60% or higher on the exam
- Specialist certificate with distinction for those that obtain 85% or hire on the exam
- Certificate of Attendance for those that do not pass the exam
Who should attend LOPA training?
Any professionals that required to attend LOPA sessions in their workplace.
Course content
- Introduction to LOPA
- What is LOPA?
- What does LOPA do?
- Key features of LOPA
- History of LOPA
- LOPA and the law
- LOPA and standards
- LOPA and other HRA techniques
- Applications of LOPA
- When to use LOPA
- Functional Safety Management
- The task for FSM
- Lifecycle phase
- LOPA and FSM
- LOPA team in a nutshell
- LOPA documentation
- LOPA report
- LOPA and verification
- LOPA and assessments
- LOPA and audits
- LOPA and validation
- Principles of LOPA
- Scenario
- Consequences
- Initiating event
- Enabling event
- Conditional modifiers
- (Un)mitigated consequences
- Safeguards
- Independent protection layers (IPL)
- Protection layers
- The four HAZOP steps
- Preparing for LOPA
- Initiating the LOPA
- Scope
- Objective
- The study plan
- Meeting logistics
- Technical information
- Study plan template
- Performing LOPA
- During the meeting
- Introduction sessions
- Examination sessions
- Closure session
- Documenting the LOPA
- Recording of the proceedings
- LOPA Study report (template)
- Software tools
- Methods of recording
- LOPA worksheet (template)
- Mark up drawings
- Documenting recommendations
- Final sign off and approval
- After the LOPA
- What is not the responsibility
- Responsibilities (FS) manager
- Close action items
- When to do the LOPA again
- Conclusions
- Exam
Personal Development
Participants in the LOPA training course can further develop their HRA and SIL skills be attending the following courses:
- HAZOP training
- HAZOP/LOPA Leadership training
- SIL Verification and calculation
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In order to achieve the knowledge certificate associated with this Functional Safety and SIL for Safety Instrumented System training course the applicants need to meet the following criteria:
- Fill out the Application Form
- Have 3 years of experience in the process industry.
- Have 2 references that can confirm the experience
- Participate at least one time this training
- Pass the associated exam
Every participant in our training courses receives a personal Safety Passport®. Your personal Safety Passport is an online independently verified track record demonstrating you competency. An example of a Safety Passport is given here. Your Safety Passport can hold:
- Knowledge certificates achieved through training,
- Role or field based certification achieved through practical experience, and
- Participation in qualified events
The Safety Passport is free of charge for Risknowlogy clients.
Our personal development training and certification program is compliant with ISO 17024, the standard for people certification. We strive to offer you the best personal training, development and certification program in the world. Where applicable we cooperate with industry organisations like TUV, ISA, IEEE, DIN, to have our courses approved.
Our trainers are:
- Dr. Michel Houtermans
- Didier Turcinovic
- Ricardo Vittoni
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