Asset Integrity Management

Online | Face-to-face | In-company

Overview

By attending this course, you will deepen your understanding of the key elements required for effective asset integrity management in high-hazard process industries. Covering a broad range of interconnected topics, the course will help you identify potential risks and develop strategies to manage and mitigate them effectively.

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines asset integrity as “the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently while protecting health, safety, and the environment.” In simpler terms – it’s about keeping it in the pipe.

Delivering asset integrity is more than just a technical challenge for engineers and maintenance teams. The HSE emphasises that leadership, competent people, effective systems and processes, and appropriate resources all play vital roles in maintaining integrity throughout an asset’s lifecycle.

Through case studies, exercises, and group discussions, this course explores good practice and current thinking in asset integrity management. You will gain insights into key considerations spanning the full lifecycle – from design, material selection, construction, and commissioning through to operational discipline, ageing mechanisms, management of change, and ensuring effective oversight.

The course will also focus on the process safety consequences of poor asset integrity and highlight the key links between asset integrity management and other process safety management elements.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, delegates will understand:

• The consequences of poor asset integrity management  what can go wrong and lessons learned from industry incidents

• The key building blocks of an effective asset integrity management system and how these align with the IChemE process safety framework

• The causes of asset failure at different stages of the asset lifecycle, with a particular focus on the management of ageing plant

• Practical strategies to manage and reduce the risk of asset integrity failure.

Who will benefit

This course is designed for managers, engineers, and safety professionals responsible for, or involved in, asset integrity management. It will help participants enhance their ability to identify asset integrity hazards and risks, and to develop robust management systems that reduce overall business risk and improve operational reliability.

Course outline

• Introduction to asset integrity
• Asset lifecycle management
• Risk identification and mitigation
• Good practice and case studies
• Interactive learning

Course delivery

Online 

Online courses consist of three live and interactive modules with the trainer, each lasting three hours. There will also be some work to complete independently before the course and between the live sessions. More details will be provided after you have registered.

Live sessions are delivered via Microsoft Teams. If you don't already have this installed, you can join as a guest in order to access the training.

Face-to-face 

Face-to-face courses are delivered over two days.

Upcoming dates 

View the list of start dates on this page. To register, select your preferred course and go to the 'Book course' button. If there aren’t any courses listed right now, you can easily register your interest in future dates, and we’ll keep you updated.

Fees

• IChemE member £1,070 + VAT
• Non-member £1,260 + VAT

Contact us

+44 (0)1788 534496 / courses@icheme.org 

Register your interest in future dates.

More than one person to train?

Multi-place discounts

Discounts are available to companies booking more than one place. Bookings must be made at the same time to receive the discount.

• 2 places – 10% discount
• 3 places –15% discount
• 4 or more places – 20% discount

In-company training

This course can be delivered to in-house teams, either on-site or online. This could be a cost-effective option if you have several people requiring the training. Content can be tailored to your specific requirements. Request a quotation.

Attendance certificate and CPD hours

An e-certificate will be issued at the end of the course to confirm attendance and CPD hours logged. Please note that you must attend the whole course to receive the certificate. 

In the case of online courses, CPD hours should be used as an approximate guide and will vary depending on the preferred approach of the delegate and to what extent additional learning is completed.