Advantica Announces Hazard Awareness Training Course

Loughborough, UK - Global engineering consultancy to the oil and gas industry, Advantica, is to host a practical hazard awareness training course for operators, managers and risk management specialists using its UK test site at Spadeadam, Cumbria.

Targeted at operational personnel from onshore petrochemical sites and offshore oil and gas platforms, emergency response teams and services, safety managers and hazard awareness engineers, the course aims to provide an awareness of the potential hazards associated with releases of flammable hydrocarbon gases and liquids, through a combination of practical demonstrations and illustrated talks.

Topics covered will include: dispersion and accumulation, liquid spread, fire hazards, explosions and miscellaneous hazards. Advantica's approach is a flexible one with course content tailored to the audience's requirements so that hazards of particular interest are illustrated. Similarly the balance between explaining the underlying behaviour, illustrative examples and discussing methods of mitigation are adjusted to meet the needs of attendees.

The Spadeadam test facility is unique, carrying out research and technical service work for the oil and gas, process and energy industries, construction industries as well as government agencies. This world leading test centre allows full scale experiments of a potentially hazardous nature to be undertaken. These tests can include hydrocarbon fires and explosions and performance testing of equipment or components under operational or extreme conditions.

The next Hazard Awareness training course will be held on 23rd and 24th October 2008. For more information regarding this course please see www.advanticagroup.com/training or contact training.enquiries@advanticagroup.com to book.

SOURCE: Advantica Limited