Managing Risk - Risk is about awareness, personal judgement and perception, responsibilities and taking action to reduce risk to acceptable levels whilst taking advantage of the rewards risk can offer. This module is designed to take engineers through an understanding of managing risk to the development of a simple management system for assuring the integrity of wells equipment.

Legislation - Lord Cullen's 1990 Piper Alpha report presented many fundamental and far reaching observations and recommendations which subsequently became the basis for a swathe of new legislation. This module tries to make sense of the legal minefield that we have to pick our way through - DCR, MAR, PFEER, PSR, LOLER, PUWER, etc.

NPT in Wells - Many NPT events in wells have been caused by improper material specification or a general lack of awareness as to what you have to tell a designer (your supplier) in order for him to provide 'fit for purpose' equipment. This module reviews key metallurgical and elastomeric properties that impact equipment performance.

Criticality - During any planning process, we have to assess 'risk' of equipment and systems that we employ in terms of both safety and business. This module presents a model for calculating a 'level of criticality' and combines this with specifying this as part of the equipment's Statement of Requirements.