Critical Infrastructure Resilience & HSE
This 5-day course provides a practical understanding of critical infrastructure resilience and HSE management. It focuses on identifying hazards, threats, vulnerabilities, and operational risks that can affect critical facilities and essential services.
Participants will learn how to strengthen HSE controls, emergency preparedness, crisis management, business continuity, physical security, disaster recovery, and infrastructure restoration while protecting personnel, assets, critical systems, operations, and the environment.
Build a practical understanding of critical infrastructure resilience and HSE.
Improve identification and management of vulnerabilities before major disruptions occur.
Strengthen preparedness for fires, natural hazards, equipment failures, utility disruptions, and security incidents.
Improve coordination between HSE, operations, security, emergency response, and management teams.
Develop practical approaches to business continuity, recovery, and infrastructure restoration.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Understand the principles of critical infrastructure resilience and HSE management.
Identify hazards, threats, vulnerabilities, critical assets, and resilience risks.
Assess the potential impact of natural, technological, operational, and security disruptions.
Develop risk-based resilience, emergency preparedness, and protective strategies.
Integrate HSE, security, emergency response, and business continuity requirements.
Develop recovery, restoration, and continual improvement strategies following major disruptions.
HSE / EHS Managers & Professionals
Critical Infrastructure Managers
Risk Management Professionals
Facility & Operations Managers
Emergency Response Coordinators
Business Continuity & Resilience Professionals
Security Managers & Supervisors
Crisis Management Teams
Asset & Maintenance Managers
Emergency Planning Personnel
Security & Loss Prevention Personnel
Managers & Supervisors responsible for critical facilities and essential services
Course Outline
Session 1: Critical Infrastructure Resilience, Essential Services, Interdependencies & Resilience Lifecycle
Session 2: Natural, Technological, Operational, Fire, Hazardous-Material & Security Hazards
Session 3: Risk Assessment, Criticality, Consequence Analysis, Risk Registers & Resilience Planning
Session 1: HSE Management Systems, Hazard Controls, Hierarchy of Controls, PTW & Contractor HSE
Session 2: Asset Integrity, Reliability, Preventive/Predictive Maintenance & Safety-Critical Equipment
Session 3: Fire Protection, Emergency Shutdown, Physical Security, Environmental Protection & Critical Asset Protection
Session 1: Emergency Response Planning, Incident Command, Communication, Evacuation & External Coordination
Session 2: Crisis Management, Business Impact Analysis, Critical Functions, Business Continuity & Minimum Operating Requirements
Session 3: Scenario-Based Exercises – Fire, Natural Disaster, Utility Failure, Security Breach & Hazardous-Material Release
Session 1: Security Risk, Threat/Vulnerability Assessment, Access Control, Critical Systems & Security Response
Session 2: Disaster Recovery, Damage Assessment, Recovery Priorities, Critical Service Restoration & Return to Normal
Session 3: Resilience Drills, Tabletop/Functional Exercises, Performance Evaluation & Corrective Actions
Session 1: Resilience & HSE Performance Indicators, Risk Dashboards, Audits, Compliance & Management Review
Session 2: Incident Investigation, RCA, Barrier/Control Failures, Corrective Actions & Lessons Learned
Session 3: Integrated Infrastructure Disruption Exercise – HSE, Emergency Response, Security, Business Continuity & Recovery