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Chemical Industries Association has a commitment to helping businesses keep informed and compliant with regulation, help improve the professional competencies of staff, and share best practice amongst members.
Our portfolio of training courses, conferences and workshops are very competitively priced, and delivered by experts who understand the chemical and pharmaceutical sector.
Upcoming CIA Event
CIA Annual Sustainability Conference 2025
The conference will explore ground-breaking innovations, best practices and strategic collaborations that are driving sustainability within the sector. Hear from a variety of speakers on how to shape a greener, more sustainable future for industry. Find out more.
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Climate Change and COMAH
Under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 2015, operators are required to demonstrate that all major accident hazards (MAHs) have been identified. MAH identification is commonly carried out against a list of guidewords, or deviations, intended to identify all potential initiators of MAHs at an establishment. Included in these guidewords are often a smaller number of environmental initiators, capturing extremes of temperature and weather.
Competence Management System - A Practical Approach
This course will discuss the HSE’s expectations and inspection programme whilst delivering practical best practice advice in managing competence for high hazard industries.
Safety and COMAH Critical Comms (Radio) - Communicating Clearly and Safely
Verbal communication is frequently relied upon to transmit information and make requests for action. In a high hazard chemical plant, errors in communication can be disastrous. This course covers methodologies of verbal communication and how to avoid errors in understanding.
Lean Supply Chains – Workshop - Exploring the bigger picture
This workshop explores ways of improving a supply chain to make it more integrated and effective in the context of the specifics and business drivers of the process industries.
CIA/HSE Webinar on Human Factors for COMAH sites
This webinar, hosted by the CIA, will be presented by Elaine Skilling - HM Principal Specialist Inspector (Human Factors Engineering) of the CEMHD Division of the HSE. This webinar is aimed at those operating COMAH sites and engaged in dealing with Human Factors considerations in the prevention and mitigation of Major Accident Hazards.
Leadership for Managers /Setting the Standards in the Process Industries
This course is aimed at senior and middle managers looking for a grounding in principles of leadership, taking into account the unique demands of managing high hazard sites, and will link in with leadership models and guidance as published by the Process Safety Leadership Group, and the OECD’s Corporate Governance for Process Safety.
Management of Change - A Practical Approach
This course has been specifically designed for those requiring to increase their underpinning knowledge of management of change systems, including those who initiate, evaluate and implement change on high hazard facilities. Also appropriate for managers who have responsibility for the audit and review of the change management system.
DSEAR - Practical Application
This course will provide an overview of the applicable legislation and guidance and the management processes involved, to provide a strategic overview of DSEAR.
SOPs - Writing Procedures – Current Best Practices
This practical course will take delegates through the key principles of procedures covering how to structure, format and draft useable documents, and will include additional supporting documents such as checklists and job aids. The course is interactive with lots of exercises and discussion.
Problem Solving in Production – Applying Structured Problem Solving Tools to Daily Issue
The ability to solve problems is one of the most important business skills to possess, if not the most important. This course is for those looking to broaden their knowledge and increase their capability and confidence in using a range of problem solving tools and techniques that will deliver results.
CIA Annual Sustainability Conference 2025
The conference will explore ground-breaking innovations, best practices and strategic collaborations that are driving sustainability within the sector. Hear from a variety of speakers on how to shape a greener, more sustainable future for industry. Find out more.
Value Stream Mapping - Application in the Process Industries
This course is for those looking at, or charged with finding, opportunities to drive business improvements such as reducing lead times/ increase stock turns, improving on-time-in-full (OTIF) deliveries, removing waste and improving productivity, or perhaps just making operations simpler and easier day to day.
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Chemicals Northwest is the industry-led, chemical cluster support organisation for the North West and surrounding areas chemical sector, the largest in the UK. We are a funded by our members and owned and supported by the Chemical Industries Association.
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