Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 24

Hazards 24 was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK on 7-9 May 2014.

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Paper 1. Estimating possible impact of the Seveso III Directive for the UK to inform negotiation and implementation

Jill Wilday, Susan Fraser, Brian Fullam, Sandra Ashcroft and Rachel McCann

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Paper 2. There is no such thing as a black swan process incident

Paul Amyotte, Alyssa Margeson, Amelie Chiasson and Faisal Khan

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Paper 3. Lessons learnt from completing formal safety assessments for FLNG facilities

Christopher Jones

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Paper 4. Modelling of accidental hydrocarbon releases in QRAs: Hole size versus initial release rate basis

Brian Bain, Andy Bolsover, Asmund Huser, Andreas Falck and Cynthia Spitzenberger

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Paper 5. HAZOPS are not the only fruit

Conor Crowley and Nigel Bowker

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Paper 6. Decision making using Human Reliability Analysis

Fabio Oshiro

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Paper 7. A guide to enhancing process safety and plant efficiency through the competence of Control Room Operators (CROs)

Paul Leach, Michael Wright and Stuart King

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Paper 8. Human factors result in alarms and trips failing to achieve the expected risk reduction

A. G. Foord

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Paper 9. Task identification for human factors safety critical task analysis

Jamie Henderson

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Paper 10. A simple end-to-end guide to COMAH report writing and management

Mark Manton and Brad Eccles

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Paper 11. Shift handover – where are we now?

Jim Ross

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Paper 12. Developing safety leadership behaviours in a Latin American power generation company

Johnny Mitchell, Michael Bernard and Juan C. Villagrán

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Paper 13. Management reviews of process safety

John C. Wincek

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Paper 14. Lack of proper safety management systems in Nigeria oil and gas pipelines

Uzoma Nnadi, Zaki El-Hassan, David Smyth and James Mooney

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Paper 15. Improving organisational learning: why don’t we learn effectively from incidents and other sources?

John Wilkinson and Helen Rycraft

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Paper 16. PSM lessons from a major reformer furnace failure

Rod Prior

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Paper 17. Lessons learned from major accidents having significant impact on the environment

Zsuzsanna Gyenes, Maureen Heraty Wood

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Paper 18. SIL determination and high demand mode

Alan G. King

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Paper 19. Optimizing maintenance to manage the major accident risk

Peter Okoh

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Paper 20. A risk-based approach to safety distance determination in the process industry

Renato Benintendi, Angela Deisy Rodriguez Guio and Samuel March

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21. Small scale experimental study of vaporization rates of liquid nitrogen released on water

Nirupama Gopalaswami, M. Sam Mannan, Luc Vechot and Tomasz Olewski

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Paper 22. Modelling of time-dependent dispersion for releases including potential rainout

Henk W.M. Witlox and Mike Harper

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23. Accumulation of hydrogen released into an enclosure fitted with passive vents – experimental results and simple models

P. Hooker, J.R. Hoyes and J. Hall

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Paper 24. Stochastic SIL verification for complex safety instrumented systems

Sara Shahidi and Mehran Pourzand

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Paper 25. Integrity challenges in harsh environments: lessons learned and potential development strategies

Faisal Khan, Salim Ahmed, Seyed Javad Hashemi, Ming Yang, Susan Caines and Dan Oldford

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Paper 26. Well integrity – Christmas tree acceptable leakage rate and sustained casing pressure

Mrudhul Raj

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Paper 27. Validation of the new ignition source “exploding wire” for dust explosion testing in the 20-L-sphere

Arne Krietsch, Yolada Kwangvitayanon, Martin Schmidt, Alexander Klippel, Volkmar Schröder and Marc Scheid

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Paper 28. Hazardous area classification for biomass

Steven Sherwen and Herodotos Phylaktou

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Paper 29. Dust explosions – hazardous area classification – powder handling areas

Di Shen, Olivier Leroy and Keith Plumb

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Paper 30. Developing options for providing COMAH site information to the public, under the Seveso III Directive

Jane Durling, Daniel Gaskarth, Aidan Whitfield, Sandra Ashcroft and Rachel McCann

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Paper 31. What is good practice for the proof testing of safety instrumented systems of low safety integrity?

Jeff Wood

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Paper 32. Certification for the IEC61508 group of standards put into perspective

Clive de Salis

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Paper 33. Application of global sensitivity analysis to FDS simulations of large LNG fire plumes

Adrian Kelsey, Simon Gant, Kevin McNally and Steven Betteridge

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Paper 34. A methodology based on fault tree analysis to assess the domino effect frequency

Antioco López-Molina, Richart Vázquez-Román, Efraín Quiroz Pérez and M. Guadalupe Félix-Flores

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35. Modelling transient leaks from pressure vessels including effects of safety systems

Jan Stene, Mike Harper and Henk W.M. Witlox

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Paper 36. Environmental risk tolerability for major accident hazard sites: A method for quantifying and assessing environmental risk

M. Nicholas, I. Brocklebank, J. Coates, P. Davidson and H. Bray

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Paper 37. Fire water retention – latest guidance for appropriate design

Pat Swords

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Paper 38. Design of a safe hazardous materials warehouse

Renato Benintendi and Simon Round

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Paper 39. Burning and explosion properties of metallic nano powders

Arne Krietsch, Marc Scheid, Martin Schmidt and Ulrich Krause

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Paper 40. A Correlation of the lower flammability limit for hybrid mixtures

Jiaojun Jiang, Yi Liu and M. Sam Mannan

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Paper 41. The influence of reduced pressure on flame propagation in dust/air mixtures

Hannes Kern, Gerald J. Wieser and Harald Raupenstrauch

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Paper 42. Benchmarking human factors in the process industries

Jamie Elliott, Sarah Grindrod and Paul Sirett

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Paper 43. Development of a task analysis programme addressing safety critical tasks at INEOS ChlorVinyls, Runcorn site

Colin Brunold and Clive Mattock

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Paper 44. Linking task analysis with other process safety activities

Andy Brazier

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Paper 45. Behavioural strategies for improving systems, conditions and behaviours

Manuel Rodriguez and James Birch

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Paper 46. Inclusive and integrated risk assessment, risk management and SIF definition under the IEC61508 group of standards

Clive de Salis

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Paper 47. The process safety audit – a corporate comfort blanket?

Lee Allford

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Paper 48. Where are your SIL assessments now?

Jo Fearnley

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Paper 49. TOSCA – Total Operations Management for Safety Critical Activities: Industry needs for innovative methods

Olga Aneziris, Zoe Nivolianitou, Myrto Konstantinidou, Ioannis Papazoglou, Tom Kontogiannis, Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Emmanuel Plot, Marko Gerbec, Valerio Cozzani and Marco Pontigia

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Paper 50. Safety case on a page

Sally Forbes

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Paper 51. The CO2PipeHaz good practice guidelines for CO2 pipeline safety

Jill Wilday, Ju Lynne Saw, Mike Wardman and Mike Bilio

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Paper 52. Inherent safety application to ensure an ALARP design at concept stage

Khama Matiti

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Paper 53. A study of pressure safety valve response times under transient overpressures

Bruce Ewan, Colin Weil and M. Scanlon

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Paper 54. Consequence modelling of large LNG pool fires on water

Steven Betteridge, James Hoyes, Simon Gant and Matthew Ivings

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Paper 55. Analysis of fire and explosion hazards during surface transport of liquefied petroleum gas: A case study

Nilambar Bariha, Indra Mani Mishra, Vimal Chandra Srivastava

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Paper 56. Endex stabilization of thermally unstable and explosive liquid phase systems

Rowena Ball

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Paper 57. Study on mitigating ammonium nitrate fertiliser explosion hazards

Zhe Han, Alba Pineda, Sonny Sachdeva, M. Sam Mannan and Maria I. Papadaki

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Paper 58. Dynamic simulation of Texas City Refinery explosion for safety studies

Joseph Isimite and Philip Rubini

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Paper 59. Runaway chemical reaction at Corden Pharmachem, Cork

S. J. Gakhar, S. M. Rowe, M. Boylan and P. Conneely

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Paper 60. Flixborough: Lessons which are still relevant today

Robin Turney

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Paper 61. Comparison of predictions from the gas dispersion model DRIFT (Version 3) against URAHFREP data

Graham Tickle

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Paper 62. Consequence analysis of uncontrolled fluid flow in wellbore

Ruochen Liu, Ray Mentzer, Sam Mannan and Rashid Hasan

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Paper 63. A new integral dispersion model based on one-dimensional turbulence theory

Jeffrey Rowley

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Paper 64. Characteristics of companies with great process safety performance

Jack McCavit, Scott Berger, Louisa Nara and Cheryl Grounds

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Paper 65. Why don’t all our facilities succeed in applying corporate process safety requirements and what can we do about it?

Richard Gowland

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Paper 66. Sustaining effective corporate governance in process safety across global manufacturing sites

Julian Hought and Andrew Fowler

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Paper 67. Selection, training and development processes to support effective supervisor safety behaviour within the UK oil & gas industry

George Petrie

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Paper 68. Making facilities safer by design

Graeme Ellis

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Paper 69. Corporate memory – the collective brain and the struggle against amnesia

John Evans and Gordon Martin

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Poster 1. Organisational and safety culture models

Elizabeth Jacob

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Poster 2. Safety by context

Stefan G.Kovacs and Eugenie Posdărăscu

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Poster 3. Improvement in Release Frequencies for Quantitative Risk Assessment

Andrew Crerand, Simon Chynoweth and Steve Richardson

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Poster 4. A database of Safety Performance Indicators for the Explosives Industry: A report on an initiative to create a database of Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) in the UK

David Threlfall and Terry Bridgewater

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Poster 5. HAZOP study training – a modern approach

Brian Tyler and Phillip Aspinall

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Poster 6. SIL and Functional Safety – some lessons we still have to learn

David Craig

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Poster 7. Vulnerability assessment – one step further towards a better safety

Stefan G. Kovacs and Eugenie Posdărăscu

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Poster 8. Looking Beyond Relief System Design Standards

Mark Reilly and Thomas Craddock

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Poster 9. Operational Risk Using BowTie Methodology

Richard Emery

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Poster 10. A Generic Model To Assess Major Incident Frequencies For Offshore Assets

Richard Emery

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Poster 11. Is all Safety-Critical Equipment Critical to Safety?

John C. Wincek

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Poster 12. “Assurance and Verification Practitioner’s Guide” – Three Years On

David Richardson and Nigel Bowker

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Poster 13. Real-time risk assessment and decision support using Bayesian networks

Andy Bolsover and Andreas Falck

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Poster 14. Pressure Relief Valves – is there a need when there are EDVs?

Glenn Pettitt and Philip Pennicott

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