SEMS – Safety & Environmental Management Systems
Course Overview
Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) provide the structured framework through which offshore oil & gas operations identify, manage, and continually reduce safety and environmental risk. Based on API RP 75 and international best practice, this course walks participants through every SEMS element – from hazards analysis and management of change to mechanical integrity, emergency response, and audit – and shows how to implement and sustain an effective SEMS program across offshore facilities.
Every simulator in this course opens with a mandatory Risk Assessment Gate — identify the hazards, set the controls, and confirm the residual risk before the “permit to simulate” is issued — and every scenario injects live condition changes that demand dynamic risk assessment and Stop Work decisions, exactly as the field does.
Interactive Training Games
Route eight advancing threats to the barriers that stop them, risk-ranking each — three breaches and containment is lost.
Replacement in kind or change requiring MOC? Decide on real cases.
Assign unlabeled situations to the SEMS element that owns them.
Order a compliant pre-startup safety review.
Who Should Attend
- HSE managers and SEMS coordinators
- Offshore installation managers and supervisors
- Operations, maintenance, and integrity engineers
- Contractor management and bridging-document owners
- Auditors of safety and environmental management systems
- Regulatory and compliance personnel
What You Will Learn
- Explain the purpose, scope, and regulatory background of SEMS (API RP 75).
- Describe each SEMS element and how the elements interact as a system.
- Apply hazards analysis techniques at the facility and task level.
- Manage safe work practices, contractor safety, and bridging documents.
- Implement management of change and pre-startup safety review processes.
- Maintain mechanical integrity and quality assurance programs.
Course Curriculum
What SEMS Is & the 17 ElementsINTERACTIVE LESSON
Simulator: Which Element Owns It?INTERACTIVE LESSON
Barrier DefenseTRAINING GAME
Management of Change & PSSRINTERACTIVE LESSON
Contractors, Audits & Continual ImprovementINTERACTIVE LESSON
Measuring the System: KPIs, Leading & Lagging IndicatorsINTERACTIVE LESSON
Hazards Analysis Levels & Risk Assessment Inside SEMSINTERACTIVE LESSON
Definitions & Key TerminologyREFERENCE
Standards References & Further ReadingREFERENCE
Final ExamFINAL EXAM
Standards & References
Certification
Complete all lessons and pass the final examination (70%) to receive an accredited USQC certificate, verifiable online through the USQC Certificate Verification portal. Corporate packages are available based on the number of participants and training scope, aligned with UAE market standards.
Curriculum
- 2 Sections
- 12 Lessons
- 12 Weeks
- Lessons9
- 1.1What SEMS Is & the 17 Elements
- 1.2Simulator: Which Element Owns It?
- 1.3TRAINING GAME — Barrier Defense
- 1.4Management of Change & PSSR
- 1.5Contractors, Audits & Continual Improvement
- 1.6Measuring the System: KPIs, Leading & Lagging Indicators
- 1.7Hazards Analysis Levels & Risk Assessment Inside SEMS
- 1.8Definitions & Key Terminology
- 1.9Standards References & Further Reading
- Final Exam4
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