Professional Short Course
Short Course on Hydrogen Hazards, Risks, and Safety
Level: Intermediate | HRDF: Claimable
Trainers: Associate Professor Dr Mohammad Shakir Nasif & Dr Ali Samer Muhsan
Date
3 - 4 November 2025
Venue
CAPE
Level 8, Permata Sapura, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 Kuala Lumpur
Time
9:00am - 5:00pm
Registration Fee
RM 2,980 for Professionals
10% Discount for Early Bird (until 3 October 2025) / Group / Students
Content Summary
Background
As Malaysia is moving towards a net zero carbon emission and cleaner energy, hydrogen has emerged as a potential energy alternative to fossil fuels due to its high energy density compared to gasoline and liquefied natural gas. In addition, hydrogen is considered an excellent clean fuel with potential applications in several fields. However, despite its advantages, the flammability of hydrogen has raised many concerns about hydrogen-related hazards considering catastrophic incidents that may occur such as hydrogen fire and explosion. The hazard caused by hydrogen comes from material properties-related issues which are used to handle, store or transport hydrogen, as well as the handling process and storage of hydrogen. Where the primary hazards include hydrogen release and subsequent ignition. Immediate ignition of hydrogen usually causes hydrogen jet fires, whereas delayed ignition of hydrogen leads to the explosion. Such incidents can lead to significant losses including life, financial, property and subsequently damaging the environment which will lead to catastrophic consequences. These accidents not only destroy facilities, but also it may hit nearby facilities with certain physical effects. Several incidents have been reported recently which shows the serious hazard hydrogen may cause. The transition from fossil fuel to hydrogen face a lot of challenges due its flammability and handling hazards related to the effect of hydrogen on materials.
This course is aimed to provide insights on the hazard hydrogen may cause including fire and explosion risks, as well as hydrogen interaction with materials and hazards associated with hydrogen process, handling, and storage.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand hydrogen fire and explosion dynamics, behavior, causes, and spread.
- Understanding the challenges and hazards associated with hydrogen production, handling, and transportation. Understand hydrogen material compatibility issues and challenges especially hydrogen permeability as well as embrittlement, storage, and transportation.
- Perform risk assessment of hydrogen caused hazards.
- Understand the possibility of hydrogen leaks and causes.
- Hydrogen hazard prevention measures.
Who Should Attend?
- QHSE Officers and Managers
- HSE and Process Safety Senior Technicians
- Operations, Safety and Executive Engineers
- Process, Safety and Mechanical
- Designers and engineers Fire and Rescue Staff
- Fire Safety and
- Fire Protection Technical Personnel Consultants, Academicians, and Researchers
Course Content
- Benefits of hydrogen, hydrogen production, applications, and why we need to focus on hydrogen hazards and safety measures.
- Hydrogen fire and explosion characteristics, dynamics, and behavior
- Hydrogen safety consideration, and hydrogen leaks probabilities, and formation of explosive atmosphere
- Hydrogen material compatibility and interaction with materials
- Hazards associated with hydrogen storage, and transportation including hydrogen embrittlement,
- Other hazards related to hydrogen
- Hydrogen hazards risk assessment
- Hydrogen hazards preventive measures
Trainers
Assoc Prof Dr Mohammad Shakir Nasif is an associate professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He has over 27 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of mechanical and fire engineering. He has worked with international consultants in Australia, New Zealand, and Middle East in the field of fire and explosion safety and protection engineering. He has conducted many fire and explosion, and risk courses for industries. He has been an invited speaker in several fire safety conferences and universities and supervised research students in fire and explosion safety and protection engineering. He has published more than 80 peer reviewed journals and conference papers, and technical reports. He is chartered member of Institute of Engineering – New Zealand, Member of BEM and Member of Institute of Engineers Australia.
Dr Ali Samer Muhsan (UTP)
Dr Ali Samer Muhsan is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS with a PhD dergree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a registered Engineer in the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and in the process of being certified as a Professional Engineer in Materials Engineering. He has over 14 years of research experience in hydrogen production and storage as well as in nanomaterials synthesis and applications in renewable energy and thermal management. He has published more than 75 journal papers. He has been invited as a keynote speaker and trainer to multiple national and international organizations such as Nano-Malaysia Berhad, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the University of Technology (UoT), Iraq. Currently he is leading a project with PETRONAS on green hydrogen production using eco-friendly and cost-effective nanomaterials.
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Registration Fees
PROFESSIONALS
MYR2,980*
*fee quoted does not include SST, HRDF service fee, GST/VAT or withholding tax (if applicable).
EARLY BIRD/ GROUP/ STUDENT
MYR2,682*
*fee quoted does not include SST, HRDF service fee, GST/VAT or withholding tax (if applicable).
Centre for Advanced & Professional Education (CAPE), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)
Level 8, Permata Sapura, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 Kuala Lumpur​.
P: +605 - 368 7558 / +605 - 368 8485 | E: cape@utp.edu.my