From a signed permit to a crew that understands it.
The problemA shutdown brings hundreds of contractors to the gate at once.
Watch the films
Sample · Made with Coursento AI · People and places are fictional
What this film shows
A field operator walks through a gas plant to a waiting welder and rests his hand on a signed permit clipped to a rail, its gas test four hours old. A supervisor lifts his hard hat off a thick manual and leaves it closed; in the site cabin the operator watches a lesson on a tablet, with a real decision in it. Back at the rail he raises one open hand, the welder waits, and a gas tester walks in.
Sample · Made with Coursento AI · People and places are fictional
What this film shows
A permit-to-work procedure and one sentence become a plan of three lessons, which is approved before anything is made. The crew writes and reviews, a filmed lesson appears, then a hot-work decision and an AI tutor that cites the scene. The course is published in two languages, ready offline, and tracked by team, shown with sample data.
Sample · AI presenter · People and places are fictional
What this film shows
An AI presenter speaks from a process unit, a site induction room and the contractor gate about experienced people leaving and a shutdown coming, with the 40% figure for new entrants on screen. A lesson frame follows. The film ends on what reaches the site: the offline app, MP4, SCORM or cmi5, and who finished.
The industry today
A workforce changing faster than the plant
Energy runs on people trusted with hazards most of the public never sees. Operators, technicians and contractors work around hydrocarbons, high voltage and H2S, under permit systems that took decades to earn. Now the sector is hiring hard: experienced crews are retiring, renewables and grids compete for the same electricians and engineers, and Gulf operators are building national talent through IKTVA and In-Country Value programmes. Time to autonomy has become a safety number, not just an HR one.
A shutdown makes it sharpest. Hundreds of contractors arrive at once, each needing the site induction before the gate opens, and many have never seen your permit system. Procedures sit in a document system nobody reaches from a process unit, where phones are barred and signal is thin. Refreshers fall due by the calendar, OT security brings a new kind of hazard to the plant network, and incident learnings can take months to travel from one site to the next.
- About 76M
- people worked in the global energy sector in 2024, up 2.2% on 2023.International Energy Agency, World Energy Employment 2025
- More than half
- of about 700 energy companies, unions and training institutions surveyed reported critical hiring bottlenecks.International Energy Agency, World Energy Employment 2025
- 40%
- rise needed in the number of newly qualified entrants to the energy sector by 2030 to stop the skills gap widening.International Energy Agency, World Energy Employment 2025
Where training breaks
What makes this hard, and what changes
The problem
A shutdown brings hundreds of contractors to the gate at once.
With Coursento
One filmed HSE induction, the same for every crew, watched before they mobilise, with a check at the end.
The problem
The process unit has no signal, and phones stay out of it.
With Coursento
Save courses to the offline app and watch in the site cabin. Progress syncs later, and the lesson waits for the next break.
The problem
An incident learning takes months to reach the next site.
With Coursento
Start from the learning or the revised procedure. Change one scene, keep the rest and publish a new version.
The problem
Audit asks who is due a refresher, and who is overdue.
With Coursento
Reminders, scores and certificates with expiry warnings in Coursento, or completions sent to your LMS through SCORM or cmi5. Competency sign-off stays with your assessors.
How it works
From your document to a course
Turn permit-to-work procedures, incident learnings and OT security policies into filmed, interactive courses for operators and contractors, in English and Arabic, with knowledge checks, certificates and offline viewing for the field.
What you bring
- Permit-to-work and isolation procedures
- Incident learnings and safety alerts
- Process safety and operating procedures
- OT security policies
- Contractor HSE requirements
Courses support your safety programme. They never replace hands-on authorisation or competency sign-off by a competent person. Follow your site's rules on devices in classified areas: watch in a safe area, not on the unit.
Start from one of these
Courses to start from
Take a brief as it is, or change it to fit. It goes with you into your workspace, where nothing is made until you approve the plan.
Operators and contractors
Permit-to-Work: Who Signs What
Three short lessons for area operators and contractors, with a hot-work decision and a five-question check. English and Arabic.
Operators and maintenance crews
Process Safety Fundamentals
Four short lessons for operators and maintenance crews, drawn from your incident learnings, with a decision in each lesson and a ten-question check.
Everyone on site
H2S Awareness
Two short lessons for everyone on site, with a muster decision when the alarm sounds and a five-question check.
Operators and control engineers
OT Cyber: Why the Plant Network Is Different
Two short lessons for operators and control engineers, with a USB-stick decision in the control room and a five-question check.
Contractors before mobilisation
Contractor HSE Induction
Three short lessons for contractors before mobilisation, with a stop-work decision and a ten-question check. English and Arabic.
Technicians changing roles
From Rig to Renewables
Three short lessons for technicians moving into renewables, with a side-by-side hazard comparison and a five-question check.
Who this is for
HSE or process safety lead
Turns procedures and incident learnings into one approved film for every site.
Competency assurance manager
Sees who finished what ahead of the assessor's sign-off.
OT security lead
Explains why the plant network is different, in scenes operators recognise.
Head of national talent programmes
Gives new national hires the same grounding in Arabic, site after site.
What to measure
Coursento tracks completion, scores, time and certificates. You bring the outcome data.
- Competency sign-offs
- Process-safety audit findings
- Qualification audit findings
- Incidents and near misses
- Time to autonomy for national hires
- Contractors inducted before mobilisation
Supports your obligations under
- United States
- OSHA PSM 1910.119(g) (refresher at least every 3 years) · PHMSA Operator Qualification · NERC CIP-004 (quarterly awareness, training at least every 15 months)
- European Union
- Seveso III · NIS2
- Gulf
- NCA ECC · NCA OTCC · Aramco IKTVA · ADNOC In-Country Value · Heat-stress rules
Coursento helps you deliver and evidence training. It doesn't replace your compliance programme or legal advice, and it holds no certification.
Questions
Does a course count as competency sign-off?
No. A course prepares people and records what they learned. Hands-on authorisation and competency sign-off stay with a competent person, under your own competency system.
Can crews use it with no signal?
Yes. Courses saved to the offline app work without a connection, and progress syncs later. Keep devices to your site's safe areas. The AI tutor works in Coursento, not in offline copies.
Do contractors need a Coursento account?
Not if the course reaches them through your LMS or as an MP4: SCORM or cmi5 packages in your LMS, or MP4 files, need no Coursento account. Validation against real LMSs is in progress, so test a package in yours before you commit.
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Describe the course you need, and approve its plan before any lesson is written.