
Process Safety and Major Accident Hazard Awareness
Learn how major accidents happen, and how barriers and safeguards stop them.
Start Course Now →Process safety is about preventing the low-frequency, high-consequence events that personal safety measures alone cannot catch. This beginner course gives you a clear, practical grounding in major accident hazards, loss of containment, and the barriers, procedures and management systems that keep energy and industrial operations safe. It is for anyone working in or around these environments who wants to understand how serious incidents are prevented.
Walk out able to actually help.
You can tell personal safety apart from process safety and explain why both matter.
You can identify major accident hazards such as fires, explosions and toxic releases.
You know how barriers, safeguards and procedures work together to prevent loss of containment.
You can point to the core elements of process safety management and where your responsibilities sit.

Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Process Safety
Defines what process safety is and sets out the regulatory frameworks that govern it.
Major Accident Hazards
Explores the types of major accident hazards and their consequences through real-life examples.
Barriers, Safeguards, and Procedures
Looks at the barriers and safeguards that prevent incidents, and the role of procedures and culture.
Key Elements of Process Safety Management
Covers the core elements of PSM, individual responsibilities and continuous improvement.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.


Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Eight structured lessons
- Real-life accident examples
- Around three hours of learning
- Certificate of completion