Online advanced training course on chemical safety and security management for East and South East Asian Member States

Online

17 November 2020

This is an advanced course which aims to introduce chemical plant safety and security management to improve their capacities by sharing lessons learnt from chemical accidents and incidents. By introducing novel training modules to enhance process safety competency requirements to focus on organisational learning so that process knowledge can be applied to situations in order to effectively manage risks. The course falls within the competences established to the OPCW by Article XI of the Chemical Weapons Convention and has been developed by the International Cooperation Branch of the OPCW.

Content

This training session will focus on how current audit methodologies could be improved based on the possible future scenarios on safety and security management in chemical facilities and chemical supply chain security management to prevent misuse of highly toxic chemicals.

Two topics related to chemical safety and security management will be discussed during this session focusing on chemical plant safety and security management based on future accident seniors and chemical supply chain security management. By introducing novel training modules to enhance process safety competency requirements to focus on organisational learning so that process knowledge can be applied to situations in order to effectively manage risks.

 

Aims

The main purpose of the course is to strengthen capacities of the safety and security personnel CWC States Parties in order to prevent chemical accidents and incidents. As well as to prevent potential misuse of highly toxic chemicals through the supply chain and improve the awareness of the effect of advanced technologies on chemical plant safety and security management strategies.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Recognise comprehensive and operative audit methodologies for chemical facilities based on future possible catastrophic scenarios. This new audit methodology will provide with a clear picture of the path to disaster and how to fix the known limitations of the current audit methodologies;
  • Demonstrate how to identify possible supply chain security vulnerabilities and mitigation methods towards the prevention of misuse of highly toxic chemicals.