UPDATED 6/15/11 – A lot of claims are being made by many training organizations that they can solve ALL your PSM/RMP training needs. Now let me set the record straight, I think a lot of these off-site training courses are a GREAT first pass for operators and maintenance to get the baseline understanding of the process. HOWEVER… and it is a BIG, however, your training efforts are FAR FROM OVER. Now it is possible that an off-site course could meet all your needs if the course covered the EXACT SAME PROCESS, the EXACT SAME equipment used in your process, EXACT SAME process parameters (e.g., safe upper and lower limits) as your process, EXACT SAME consequences of deviations, and the EXACT SAME steps to correct or avoid the deviations as in your process, and finally, the course will provide you the verification of knowledge for ALL these topics or others. In 20-plus years of being in Chemical Process Safety, I have never seen any one (1) training school provide this in an “open enrollment” course. Sure, companies can hire these types of organizations and tailor the training specifically for their process, but this is VERY RARELY ever done.