Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 17

25-27 March 2003 

(Published as IChemE Symposium series no. 149).

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1. Major Accident Prevention Policy in the European Union: The Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) and the Seveso II Directive

Stuart Duffield

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2. Gauging Societal Concerns

David Mansfield

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3. Chemical Engineering - An Inherent SH&E Imperative

David W. Edwards

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4. When Process Safety Management Fails - The Risks to Corporate Executives

Michael Dore

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5. Lessons Learned About Preparing COMAH Safety Reports

Trevor Britton

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6. COMAH Compliane for a Fine Chemicals & Explosives Facility Location within a SSSI

A. Ennis and R. M. Thomas

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7. Safety Report: Maintaining Standard and Reviewing

Sa’ari Mustapha and Izani Mohd Zain

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8. The Ongoing Challenge of Demonstrating ALARP in COMAH Safety Reports

Graeme Ellis

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9. Directors' and Engineers' Responsibilities for Safety - A Cautionary Tale

Brian R. Harris

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10. Major incidents at waste treatment sites - case studies and lessons

A. Hitchings

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11. Assessing and Reducing Flood Risks on Major Hazards Sites

Aidan Whitfield

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12. Use of Real-Time Measurements for Estimating Release Rate

Shahryar Khajeh Najafi and Ernie Gilbert

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13. Using Behaviour-Based Methods to Improve Organisational Effectiveness

Gordon Sellers and Chris Marsh

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14. The Management of Organisational Change

Trevor A. Kletz

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15. The Hazard of Management

R. Ward

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16. Safety Improvement Through Learning from Incidents

Nicholas J. L. Gardener

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17. Novel Process Design Methods to Access Safer Processing Options

Paul Sharratt, Kevin Wall and John Borland

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18. A Modification to the Kg Method for Estimating Gas and Vapour Explosion Venting Requirements

G. A. Lunn and D. K. Pritchard

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19. The Regulation of Inherent Safety

David A. Moore

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20. Application of Inherent Safety Challenge to an Offshore Platform Design for a New Gas Field Development - Approaches and Experiences

Stuart Chia, Kieran Walshe, Ed Corpuz

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21. A Case History - Whose Responsibility?

G. R. Astbury

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22. Design and Protection of Pressure Systems to Withstand Severe Fires

T. A. Roberts, I. Buckland, L. C. Shirvill, B. J. Lowesmith and P. Salater

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23. Fire and Explosion Hazards of Meat & Bone Meal: Storage, Transport and Processing

Steven J. Manchester

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24. Lessons Learnt from Fitting an Inert Gas Blanketing Facility to an Existing Storage Silo

A. Woowat, P. Atherton, I. Kempsell and S. Windebank

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25. Fire Risks from Packaged Flammable Dusts - HSE Fire Investigation and Test Work at HSL

M. Iqbal Essa

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26. Bund Design to Prevent Overtopping

Glenn Pettitt and Peter Waite

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27. The Realities of Implementing an HSE Management System in a Joint Organisation of Mixed Cultures and Languages

Ayoub Hadj-Kouider and Paul Barrett

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28. How Distribution in Human Problem Solving Imperils Systems

J. S. Busby, E. Hughes, E. Terry, J. V. Sharp, J. E. Strutt and M. Lemon

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29. Assessing Human Involvement in Chemical Manufacturing: A Human Factors Toolkit

Helen Jones, Steve Shorrock, Peter Bull and Debby Hallett

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30. Human Factors and COMAH - The Challenge of Existing Plant

Sara Marsden, Mark Bendig, Jonathan Berman, Ken Patterson and Martin Colley

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31. Improving Human Factors and Safety in the Process Industries: 'The Prism Project'

Robin Turney

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32. Less Stress = More Performance

R. Lardner

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33. The ATEX Directives - A Route Map for Compliance with the UK Regulations

John Walkington and Eric Gilchrist

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34. DSEAR; Early Experience of Implementing the New Regulations, Controlling the Storage and use of Dangerous Substances

Alan Tyldesley

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35. Explosion Safety Document for the ATEX 137 Directive - New Name for a Fire and Explosion Hazard Assessment?

Dr. Richard L. Rogers, Dr. Bernd Broeckmann and Nigel Maddison

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36. The EC 'SAFEC' Project: ATEX Meets IEC 61508

Jill Wilday, Tony Wray and Simon Brown

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37. Development of European Standards: Non-Electrical Equipment for us in Explosive Atmospheres

Dr. Richard L. Rogers

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38. Optimising the land-use around transmission pipelines

F.K. Crawley, I. Lines and J. Mather

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39. Linking an accident database to design and operational software

J. Bond

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40. Understanding major accident hazards - the cutting edge of common sense

G. Dalzell and S. Ditchburn

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41. Modelling releases of water reactive chemicals

D.J. Quinn and P.A. Davies

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42. A simplified risk-based approach for analyzing human factors

D.A. Moore

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43. Upgrading an alkoxylation facility: the value of calorimetric studies

R.L. Rogers and K. Hermann

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44. Pressure relief of liquids containing suspended solids

D. McIntosh, S. Waldram and J. Etchells

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45. Alkoxylation runaway reaction incident at Baker Petrolite, Hartlepool

S. Gakhar and D. Carr

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46. An explosion accident - causes and safety information management lessons to be learned

T.-L. Tzou, D.W. Edwards and P.W.H. Chung

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47. Safety case implementation - an Australian regulator's perspective

G. Cooke and R. Sheers

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48. Major risk avoidance - fulfilling our responsibilities- costs and benefits of Romania's safety integration into the European Union

A. Darabont, E. Diatcu, Ş. Kovacs and G.C. Apostol

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49. Exploring the role and content of the safety case

H. Conlin, P.G. Brabazon and K. Lee

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50. Competence assessment and major accident prevention

M. Wright, J. Berman and D. Turner

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51. Modelling high consequence, low probability scenarios

R.P. Cleaver, A.R. Halford and C.E. Humphreys

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52. Evaluation study of risk assessment procedures for small-scale chemical factories in Jordan

M.M. Abu-Khader

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53. QRA study of an activated carbon filter safety system

M.S. Mannan, Y. Wang and H.H. West

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54. A walk in the chemical park - process safety perspectives

D. Dambmann and L. Allford

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55. How does safety performance affect corporate value?

M. Hobbs and G.C. Stevens

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56. Factors influencing the safe management of contractors on major hazard installations

C.J. Beale

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57. Top management behaviours - the determining role in changing safety culture

R.D.C. Prior

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58. Improving safety performance and culture whilst undertaking business re-engineering

G. Entwistle

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59. COMAH safety report regime - evaluating the impact on 'new entrant' establishments

R. Thomas

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60. Key elements of risk decisions in the control of major accidents hazards

A.G. Rushton

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61. Human factors and COMAH: a regulator's perspective

M. Anderson

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Poster 01. Developing best practice safety procedures through IT systems

A. Darabont, Ş. Kovacs and G. Apostol

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Poster 02. The use of a safety case approach to support decision making in design

W.A.T. Alder and J. Perkins

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Poster 03. Demonstrating the tolerability of risk from major accidents

D. Glass and M. Johnson

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Poster 04. Using the measurements

J. Saxton and R. Black

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