A well-planned shutdown, turnaround, or outage can be a powerful opportunity to improve safety, reliability, and business performance. This self-paced Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds, and Outages eLearning course helps maintenance, operations, and project leaders learn how to plan and manage STOs more effectively.
Through interactive lessons, real-world examples, and practical exercises, learners explore proven approaches for organizing teams, selecting key performance indicators (KPIs), and capturing lessons learned. Aligned with SMRP and IAM best practices, the course includes practical tools and templates that can be applied immediately. Participants will gain the knowledge and confidence to turn their next STO into an opportunity for improved performance and cost savings.
Topics covered in this training:
- The role of an STO strategy in an overall Strategic Asset Management Program of reliability, maintainability, and availability.
- How improved STO practices can be used to support business goals and objectives.
- The importance of complying with shutdown scope, goals for a shutdown event, performance metrics.
- Risk, cost, and HSE assessments as part of STO.
- Master worklist, including: work sources, job validation, prioritization, sourcing, labor and equipment, estimation, budgeting, safety, job plans, and work packages.
- Task scheduling, including job sequencing, resource leveling, and contingency planning.
- Work control, such as scope freeze, scope creep, emergent work, change authorization, quality audits, acceptance criteria, and change authorization.
- Monitoring, tracking, and reporting activity status.
- Close-out and start-up activities
- Best practices for project review and continuous improvement.
- Technology resources for STO.
Who Should Attend Training
STO’s are cross-functional projects that reach a broad range of stakeholders. Below are some job titles and roles would find this training beneficial:
Maintenance Planner/Schedulers
Production Supervisors
Storeroom Managers
Maintenance Managers and Supervisors
Operation Coordinators
Plant Engineers and Capital Project Engineers
Outage Coordinators
Reliability Engineers
Facilities Managers
Project Managers
Asset Management Specialists
Quality Assurance
Procurement
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