Paper 1: Investigation of Cargo Tank Vent Fires on the GP3 FPSO, Part 1: Identification of Ignition Mechanisms and Analysis of Burning Droplets

Mark Pursell, Simon Gant, Andrew Newton, Darrell Bennett, Louise O'Sullivan, Philip Hooker and David Piper

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Paper 2: Investigation of Cargo Tank Vent Fires on the GP3 FPSO, Part 2: Analysis of Vapour Dispersion

Simon Gant, Mark Pursell, Andrew Newton, Darrell Bennett, Louise O'Sullivan and David Piper

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Paper 3: Gas Ingress into Buildings – Experimental Studies and their Relevance to Risk Assessment

Phil Cleaver, Ann Halford, Karen Warhurst, Keith Armstrong and Julian Barnett

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Paper 4: Modelling and Validation of Atmospheric Expansion and Near-Field Jet Dispersion for Pressurised Vapour or Two-Phase Orifice Releases

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

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Paper 5: Learning from Incidents: How a Serious Fire in a High Pressure Polyethylene Plant Led to Improvements in Process Safety

Peter Shields

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Paper 6: Investigation of an Acetylene Cylinder Explosion Incident

Phil Hooker, John Hodges, Bill Geary and Shane Wakefield

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Paper 7: Investigation – What Does Good Look Like and Does It Really Have to Be Complicated?

Simon Monnington and John Wilkinson

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Paper 8: Ordinary Objects Come to the Aid of Investigation of Gas Explosion Incidents

Bassam Burgan, Anqi Chen, Vincent H. Y. Tam, Mike Johnson and Dan Allason

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Paper 9: Safety Culture, Leadership and Enforcement: What Does it Mean for Seveso Inspection?

Lee Allford

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Paper 11: A Framework for Developing Leading Indicators for Offshore Drillwell Blowout Incidents

Nafiz Tamim, Delphine Laboureur, Ray A. Mentzer, M. Sam Mannan and A. Rashid Hasan

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Paper 12: The Use of Bowtie Analysis in Process Safety Auditing

Doug Anderson, Margaret Caulfield, Martyn Ramsden, Glenn Pettitt and Malcolm Sarstedt

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Paper 13: IntelliRed System for Autonomous Detection of Hydrocarbon Releases

H. M. Abdel-Moati and J. M. Morris

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Paper 14: The Role of Process History in Reducing False Alarms

Alan Mahoney, Oksana Koltsova and Robin Brooks

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Paper 15: IEC 61511 – Functional Safety in the Process Industry. The Long Awaited IEC 61511 Edition 2 and What it Means for the Process Industry

Andrew Derbyshire

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Paper 16: Determination of Alarm Safety Response Time

Ayo Akintoye and Simon Round

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Paper 17: Investigating the Impact of Internal and External Convection on Thermal Explosion in a Spherical Vessel

Alistair Campbell

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Paper 19: Experimental Determination of the Rate of Flame Speed across LNG Pools

Graham Atkinson, Jonathan Hall, James Hoyes, Simon Gant and Steven Betteridge

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Paper 20: John the Employee – Research and Development Regarding a Safety and Occupational Health Avatar as an IT Companion for Employees in an Optimal Safety Culture

Stefan Kovacs

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Paper 21: Improving Learning through Interactive Case Studies

Trish Kerin

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Paper 22: The Teaching of Safety in an Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Programme

Pat Kennedy

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Paper 23: COMAH 2015: Practical Classification of Mixtures on COMAH Establishments

Susan Fraser, Maria Mallafrè Garcia, Howard Mason and Jill Wilday

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Paper 25: Seveso III: Capital and Operational Budget Impacts – the Changes and Challenges for Industry

Maeve McKenna

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Paper 26: Performance Based Gas Detection: Geographic vs Scenario Based Approaches Using CFD

G. Ferrara, R. Zhvansky, T. Bengherbia, S. H. Ledin, G. Rocha, I. Ahmed, M. D. Johnson and V. Tam

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Paper 27: Gas and Vapour Dispersion Modelling Using the DRIFT 3 Model to Assess the Safety from Toxic and Flammable Chemical Major Hazards

Helen Cruse, Alison McGillivray, Zoe Chaplin, Simon Coldrick, Harvey Tucker, Ron Macbeth and Graham Tickle

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Paper 28: An Experimental and CFD Study into the Dispersion of Buoyant Gas Using Passive Venting in a Small Fuel Cell Enclosure

T. S. Ghatauray, J. M. Ingram & P. G. Holborn

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Paper 30: Can a Company Really Measure its Own Safety Culture?

Natasha Perry, Martine Berg Hannevik and Sarah A. D. Grøndahl

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Paper 31: Chicken or Egg? Safety Critical Task Analysis and Bowties

Jodie Lewis, Andrew Bradbeer, Ian Hamilton and Tamara Maynard

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Paper 32: Creating an Enterprising Safety Management System

Allan Craig

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Paper 33: Managing the Influence of Major Emergencies on Staff Competence

David Evans and Alan McDonald

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Paper 34: Review of Global Regulations for Anhydrous Ammonia Production, Use and Storage

Mark Fecke, Stephen Garner and Brenton Cox

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Paper 36: Man-Made Earthquakes – a Review of the Risk Assessment Process

Martha McBarron

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Paper 37: Environmental Risks from Bulk Chlorine Storage Installations Used in the Water Industry

Celia Figueira and Nigel Harrison

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Paper 38: Area Classification of Flammable Mists: Summary of Joint-Industry Project Findings

Simon Gant, Richard Bettis, Simon Coldrick, Graham Burrell, Roger Santon, Brian Fullam, Kyriakos Mouzakitis, Anthony Giles and Philip Bowen

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Paper 39: Issues in DSEAR Implementation 2015

Tony Ennis

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Paper 40: Design of Thermally Resistant Buildings for Shelter in Place

Richard Haigh

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Paper 41: Unlock the Hidden Value of QRAs to Optimise Risk Management

Jatin Shah and Robert Magraw

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Paper 42: A Practical Low-Cost Semi Quantitative Method for Road Risk Assessments for Conveying Hazardous Chemicals

Roderick Prior

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Paper 43: The EU FireComp Project and Risk Assessment of Existing Hydrogen Storage Applications Using Bow-Tie Analysis

Ju Lynne Saw, Kate Hollifield, Jill Wilday, Yann Flauw, Marion Demeestere, Valérie Naudet, Pierre Blanc-Vannet and Patrick Breuer

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Paper 44: Development of a Risk Assessment Tool for Evaluating Natural Gas Compressor Stations and Above Ground Installations

A.R. Halford, M.M. Golowczynski, K. Maycock, E. Phipps, A.W.T. Sadd, D. McCollum and M. Daniel

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Paper 45: Unpicking Oversimplification: Relief and Flare Studies for Complex Plant using Dynamic Process Modelling

Ben Firth

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Paper 46: Modelling the Human and Economic Costs of Major Industrial Accidents

Timothy Aldridge, Oliver Gunawan, Helen Cruse, Kyran Donald, Neil Roche and Max Munday

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Paper 47: Hazard Assessment of High Speed Rubber Dissolution into Toluene Using Computer Modelling of Electric Fields and Potentials

I.D. Pavey, J.M. Butcher, W. Azizi and S.G. Farnworth

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Paper 48: Towards Bespoke 3D Fire and Gas Mapping: Integration of Risk-Based Approach and CFD Modelling

Khama Matiti, Alexandre Lebas, Chris Dysart, Ike Nwangwu and Shahab Baesi

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Paper 49: Risk Based Fire Engineering for Offshore Installations

Matthew Celnik and Paul Murray

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Paper 50: HSE Engineering of Unmanned Wellhead Platforms

I.E. Pat-El, P. Mol and G. Drenth

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Paper 51: Learning from the Causes of Failures of Offshore Riser Emergency Shutdown Valves

Richard Goff

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Paper 52: Environmental Loads in the North Sea – the Missing Piece in the MAH Jigsaw

David Sanderson and Iain Manclark

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Paper 53: SOPs – the Memory Banks of an Organisation

Russell Page

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Paper 54: What Are Intelligent Procedures and How Can They Be Developed?

David Embrey and Richard Marshall

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Paper 55: Practical Experience of Combining HAZOP and LOPA Studies for Large-Scale Off-Shore and On-Shore Facilities

Graeme Ellis

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Paper 56: Activity-Based Risk Analysis for Process Plant Operations

Stein Haugen, Jan Erik Vinnem, Tiantian Zhu, Nathaniel John Edwin, Olav Brautaset, Ole Magnus Nyheim and Vegard L. Tuft

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Paper 57: Human Factors: How to be Proactive in a Reactive World

Emily Taylor

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Paper 58: The Use and Uptake of Simulators for Training Offshore Drilling Crews

John Wilkinson and Ed Corbett

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Paper 59: Consolidation of the HEART Human Reliability Assessment Principles

J. Bell and J.C. Williams

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Paper 60: Why a Near Miss is Never a Leading Indicator! (or Why We Need to Think in System Outcomes)

Ian Travers

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Paper 61: Lessons Learnt from Some Accidents which Resulted in Discharges to Regulated Waters

Chris Dickinson

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Paper 62: Implementing a Proactive Learning Approach

Elena Blardony Arranz

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Paper 63: Evaluation and Mitigation of Fire and Explosion Risks Due to Aerosol Cans in Metal Waste Recycling

A Janès and F Malet

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Paper 64: Fire and Explosion Hazards in the Biomass Industries

Tony Ennis

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Paper 65: A Screening Methodology for Determining Blast and Fire Risk to Indoor Safety Critical Equipment in the Chemical and Refining Industries

P. Hodge, T. Anderson, M. Gandhi, D. Black, A. Raibagkar, K. Vilas and P. Smith

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Paper 66: Fire Detection Strategies Based on Hazard Analysis in Scottish Whisky Distilleries

James McNay

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Paper 67: A Review of Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Incidents to Derive Ignition Probabilities for Risk Assessment

M. R. Acton, C. Robinson and O. J. Acton

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Paper 68: Increasing Spatial and Directional Accuracy for the Dimensioning DRAG Loads from Accidental Explosions

Nicolas Salaün, Lars Rogstadkjernet, Djurre Siccama and Per Erik Nilsen

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Poster 1: CE Marking; ATEX, Machinery Directive, etc. – How to get it right

Pat Swords and Margaret Doran

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Poster 2: Risk Control of Complex Systems: Can safety performance indicators be more informative?

Hans J. Pasman, William Rogers and Sam Mannan

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Poster 3: Flash Fire and Burn-Back Hazards in Process Safety Assessment – Some Benefits of CFD Modelling

Zhixin Hu and Graham Tickle

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Poster 4: Vapour cloud explosions in steel clad structures

Jason Gill, Graham Atkinson, Edmund Cowpe and David Painter

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Poster 5: The benefits of using CFD for designing gas detection systems

Pablo Giacopinelli and Rohan Samaraweera

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Poster 6: Dynamic Barrier Management – A novel approach to a Critical Safety Problem

R. Pitblado, B. Nelson, M. Fisher, H. Fløtaker, K. Molazemi and A. Stokke

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Poster 7: Development of a Risk Rating Matrix for Assessing Pipeline Geohazards

C. Ashton, A. Connell and A. Brown

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Poster 8: The effect of up-to-date Operating Procedures on Process Safety

Frank van Vonderen

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Poster 9: The Good, and Bad, carrying out retrospective HAZOP studies for a large scale off-shore facilities

Azzam Younes

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Poster 10: Dispersion model predictions of the Jack Rabbit II chlorine experiments using DRIFT and PHAST

Bryan McKenna, Maria Mallafrè Garcia, Simon Gant, Rachel Batt, Mike Wardman, Harvey Tucker, Graham Tickle, Henk Witlox, Maria Fernandez, Mike Harper and Jan Stene

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Poster 11: Comparative study on toxic gas infiltration in a non-process area using Multizone and CFD models

Atif M. Ashraf, Christos D. Argyropoulos, Luc Vechot and Konstantinos E. Kakosimos

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Poster 12: Application of detonation diagnostics to the Flixborough explosion

Graham Atkinson, Edmund Cowpe and David Painter

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Poster 13: Operational readiness: more than process pre-start

John Kingston-Howlett, Rudolf Frei, Anthony Garforth and Paul Lindhout

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Poster 14: Risk-Based Approach to Centrifugal Pump Seal Selection

James Fairburn

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Poster 15: A revised method for assessing acute inhalation toxicity in quantitative risk analysis

R. J. Hansler, G. Stam and A. A. C. van Vliet

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Poster 16: Hazards within LNG Floating facilities Topside design

Christophe Cerf

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Poster 17: Fracture Propagation in Dense Phase CO2 Pipelines from an Operator’s Perspective

Russell Cooper and Julian Barnett

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Poster 18: Routeing of Dense Phase CO2 Pipelines in the UK

Russell Cooper, Julian Barnett, Jane Haswell, Harry Hopkins, Phil Cleaver and Karen Warhurst

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Poster 19: Do the Right Job, and Do the Job Right – Perspectives on Process Safety in Brownfield Modifications

Conor Crowley

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Poster 20: Implementing Functional Safety on Ageing Installations Offshore

Jasjeet Singh and Matthew Baggaley

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Poster 21: The Application Of Process HAZOP Techniques To Well Intervention Systems (“Why Would We Want To Do A Wells HAZOP?”)

Jim McDougall and Mark Taylor

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Poster 22: Identification of Hazards and Generating Inherently Safer Process Options

Salim M. Shaik, Gabriel Loh and Paul N. Sharratt

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Poster 23: The Safety Leadership Paradox

Charles Cowley and David Denyer

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