Standard Operating Procedures and
Safe Work Practices (SOP & SWP)
Course Description
Course Overview
The goal of this course is to develop a
general understanding of standard operating
procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices
(SWPs) and a detailed understanding of how
to review systems for risks. Also covered is
how to create, communicate and maintain
the documents and training associated with
these risks. This course addresses general, nonroutine facility SWPs and SOPs designed to
keep workers safe.
Audience
The Standard Operating Procedures and
Safe Work Practices course is designed for
operations, safety and maintenance managers;
technical, operations and maintenance
engineers; frontline supervisors; safety
officers; SOP/SWP element leaders and team
members; and site process safety management
(PSM) committee leaders and team members.
The participants need to be familiar with
SOPs and SWPs and have enough technical
experience to grasp the hazards and risks
associated with the work being performed.
Learning Objectives
In order to accelerate skill development, this
course features a problem-based learning
approach that provides a collaborative
job-focused experience. This course begins
with a problem scenario that requires the
content of the course to solve. As participants
work through the problem they will begin
to understand the connection between
SWP/SOPs and the avoidance of critical
failures; recognize when a process needs
to have a procedure or safe work practice;
create a SOP and SWP for a non-routine
task; collaboratively build a personal job-aid
to apply back at work; and understand the
importance of communicating and training
users on SWPs and SOPs.
Length:
2-day course
Pre-requisites:
• PSM 101: PSM Overview
• Prior exposure to operations, maintenance, projects
• Understanding of recommendations from PHA requiring
administrative controls
Module 1:
• Introduction to SWPs and SOPs
This module gives participants an overview of SWPs and SOPs and their importance.
Module 2:
• Understanding Process Risks
and Hazards
Participants will explore the process risks and hazards that can come with a lack of understanding of critical SWP and SOP documents and processes.
Module 3:
• Operation and Maintenance
Scope of Documents
In this module the importance of the SOP document development process will be discussed
Module 5:
• Training and Communication of SWPs and SOPs
Participants will determine consequences based on the consequence analysis they performed in module 3.
Module 6:
• Checking Performance and Job
Cycle Checks
This module will discuss the importance of checking performance in relation to the SOPs and SWPs.
Module 7:
• Review and Revision of SWPs and SOPs
In this module the processes for reviewing and revising SWPs and SOPs are covered.
Module 4:
• Safe Work Practices: Non-Routine and Scope of Documents
This module presents the steps for developing SWPs for operations
involving non-routine maintenance
and operations tasks.
Based on our experience, we recommend that companies do the following on an organizational level:
SOP/SWP Instructor
Led Training
General Enquiry:
Call 1-800-828-8190
to speak with an account
representative.
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
Standard Operating Procedures and
Safe Work Practices (SOP & SWP)
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Refresher e-learning
Identify select critical
SOPs/SWPs needed
Establish and Track KPls
for SOPs/SWPs
Develop critical
SOPs/SWPs
Apply to all
operations
Develop
customized
training
Evaluate
competencies in
SOPs/SWPs
Review adequacy
for SOP/SWP thru
field trials
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Results and
Path Forward
After completing this course,
participants should compile a
list of action items based on
their learning to apply back
on the job. This starts with
writing new or upgrading
existing procedures. To build
competency at the individual
level, the participant should
identify a coach, apply the
updated procedures to two
SOPs and SWPs in their area,
validate the SOPs and SWPs
through field application, get
assessed on the competency
requirements for applying
MOC, and create a plan
for developing other SOPs
and SWPs based on risk
prioritization.
It is critical to focus on the
results of process hazard analysis,
which is based on risks, when
prioritizing the development
and implementation sequence of
SOPs and SWPs.
It is recommended that
participants go through an elearning refresher course once a
year and instructor-led refresher
training once every three years.