Hazards XXI - Process safety and environmental
protection
3 DAY SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
ON 10th – 12th November 2009, Weston Building,
University of Manchester, UK
 Call
for papers: deadline due 16 January 2009
The theme of this symposium is process safety and
environmental protection in a changing world. Globalisation
is creating new supply chains, putting pressure on established
companies to innovate and improve efficiency. New suppliers
are emerging and expanding their operations. They need
to achieve high safety and environmental standards,
learning the lessons of historical failures and adapting
systems and technologies to fit their different cultures
and business practices. Well established industries
have to adapt and evolve to meet new challenges like
maintaining old plant, managing ageing workforces, introducing
new technology and implementing organisational change.
Against this back drop, accidents continue to happen.
Improved safety and environmental management practices
are being developed in a wide range of industries in
the post Buncefield and Texas City era. New laws are
being proposed and implemented in response to these
incidents. For example, major changes to the EU Seveso
II Directive are being considered, the regulatory regime
for pipelines is being revised and REACH is being implemented.
New industries continue to emerge, bringing with them
new hazards and EHS challenges. This can generate unforeseen
safety risks and environmental impacts, as new technology
introduces unforeseen ways of causing failures. Organisations
also still fail to address foreseeable risks, as the
lessons from established industries are not learnt.
It is important that we improve our understanding of
all these risks, in areas such as nanotechnology, food
technology, clean coal power supply, oil sands, next
generation biofuels, renewable energy, nuclear power
and decommissioning, and LNG supply.
The aim of this twenty first symposium is to bring
together international experts and practitioners in
process safety and environmental protection to present
and discuss the latest technical advances and developments
in safety and environmental management techniques. |
