 Welcome friends and professional engineers in oil and gas industries. NPTEL IIT Madras is proud to announce an online course on health safety and environmental management in offshore and petroleum engineering. I am Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, professor in the department of ocean engineering IIT Madras who will be conducting this course online for you for another 3 months and 48 lectures. Look at the course objective of this course named as HSC or practicing professionals will be interested to know to get a training on HSC in detail. The course title HSC will give an overview of safety and environmental issues in the petroleum industry. It will provide detailed understanding of the methods and techniques involved to make the petroleum production, processing, exploration and delivery as cleaner and safer as far as possible. This course would educate the participants to identify and assess hazards in every stage of operation to quantify and manage these hazards and risks as well in detail. Classical examples will be solved as applied to offshore and petroleum industries. The course of course will also highlight lessons learnt from the past similar accidents happened in the oil and gas sector. The entire course is decided to be taught in 3 modules. The first module will address various environmental issues and management that arise during drilling and oil exploration. The second module will focus on safety assurance and assessment in the design and operations. This module will also explain how to conduct hazard classifications and assessments, detailed examples and hazard studies and QRAs will be discussed in this module for hands on examples. The third module will deal with accident modeling, risk assessment and management. Many applied examples taken practically from the oil industry will be addressed and solved and discussed in detail during the lectures with detailed explanations. Focus will be to introduce HSE to practicing engineers as a part of the capacity building. Recent advancements in terms of using software for risk analysis will also be discussed in detail during the course in progress. The course is of course open to all engineering discipline students and science discipline students with engineering and applied science as essential background. The main focus will be to carry an interesting travel through safety analysis and assessment and to make oil exploration and production as far as safe as possible. Welcome to the course. The course will have a free registration. The course will also hold an end semester exam at the end which will enable you to get a certificate assessed and awarded by NPTEL IT Madras. So, see you in the course very soon. Thank you very much.