Simulated workplaceCAQA Hydra Chemical and Refining is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Organisation

Our departments

Six departments make up the business. Each page shows the purpose, the people, the measures that matter and the systems the team works in.

Process Operations

Operates the Kwinana reactor building, solvent recovery column and utilities continuously from the central control room and the field, keeping the plant within its safe operating limits, responding to alarms and abnormal situations and handing over accurately between shifts.

Production Superintendent48 staff

Bulk Liquids Terminal and Logistics

Receives, stores and dispatches bulk chemicals at the Kwinana Beach terminal, manages tank inventory and gauging, loads road tankers and isotainers safely and to the dangerous goods transport rules, and schedules deliveries to customers across the state.

Terminal Manager26 staff

Process Safety and Emergency Response

Owns the safety case, the permit to work system, incident investigation, process safety performance indicators, emergency planning and the site emergency response team, and coordinates the exercises and regulator interactions that a major hazard facility requires.

Process Safety Manager9 staff

Maintenance and Asset Integrity

Keeps reactors, columns, exchangers, pumps, valves, instruments, tanks and pipework fit for service through inspection, planned maintenance and breakdown repair, preparing and isolating plant safely and testing safety critical equipment to the schedule in the safety case.

Maintenance and Integrity Manager31 staff

Laboratory and Product Quality

Samples and tests raw materials, batches, tank contents and finished products, issues certificates of analysis, advises operators on batch adjustments and maintains the product specifications and the calibration of laboratory equipment.

Laboratory Manager8 staff

Technical Services and Environment

Provides process engineering, optimisation and debottlenecking, manages the management of change process, holds the environmental licence and its monitoring program and supports the safety case with process hazard studies and engineering assessments.

Technical Services Manager11 staff