Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 27

Hazards 27 was held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, UK on 10-12 May 2017.

Keynote presentations

  • Trevor Kletz Hazards Lecture
    The Race To Zero – the Drive to Eliminate Fatalities and Injuries in the High-Risk Environment of Formula One
    Mark Gallagher
  • The Importance and Practical Application of Good Process Safety Management In a Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company
    Malcolm Sarstedt
  • Insurance Risk Engineering – A Different Perspective on Major Accident Hazard Management
    Jasper Clark
  • Process Safety Fundamentals – Making Process Safety ‘Real’ in the Field
    Sally Martin
  • Managing Weak Signals – Driving Continuous Improvement in Process Safety in a Complex Organisation
    Chris Beale

Papers and posters

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Paper 1: How do we demonstrate that a consequence model is fit-for-purpose?

Simon Coldrick

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Paper 2: Relevance of the current modelling methods for the prediction of LNG vapour dispersion and development to be carried on

Pierre Quillatre

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Paper 3: Gravity-driven flammable vapour clouds

Graham Atkinson

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Paper 4: Jack Rabbit II 2015 trials: preliminary comparison of the experimental results against Drift and Phast dispersion model predictions

Bryan McKenna, Maria Mallafrè Garcia, Simon Gant, Alison McGillivray, Rachel Batt, Mike Wardman, Harvey Tucker, Graham Tickle and Henk Witlox

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Paper 5: Practical Implementation of System Safety Approaches and STAMP in the Oil and Gas Sector

Conor Crowley

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Paper 6: Lessons learnt from the introduction of human performance concepts and tools on oil and gas platforms

Johnny Mitchell

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Paper 7: The CIEHF White Paper on Human Factors in Barrier Management: Recommendations for good practice

Ronald McLeod and Ian Randle

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Paper 8: Human Factors Issues in Control of Work Systems

Jamie Henderson, Neil Hunter and David Embrey

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Paper 9: Process Safety Not Guaranteed: the Need for New Learning Approaches

Steve Lewis and Vicky Billingham

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Paper 10: Bridging the divide – OHS and process safety

Trish Kerin

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Paper 11: Process Safety Behaviours - What are they and how do they link to occupation (personal) safety behaviours

Roderick Prior

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Paper 12: Making Process Safety Personal

David Royle

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Paper 13: Domino effects between pipelines in pipeline corridors

G. M. H. Laheij, M. B. Spoelstra, B. Chiaradia, F. Driessen, M. T. Dröge, S. Rozendal and C. J. Theune

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Paper 14: Risk Assessment of Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines at Major River Crossings

M. R. Acton, K. Dimitriadis, K. Warhurst and S. Potts

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Paper 15: Using Quantified Risk Assessment (QRA) in Feasibility Design

Adrian Jones, Steven Joyce, Hui Yan, Eva Fernandes Vilas and Steve Potts

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Paper 16: Storage Tank Explosion Frequencies on FPSOs

John Spouge

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Paper 17: Environmental Risk Gap Analysis: Major Accident to the Environment Case Studies

Mike Nicholas

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Paper 18: Inspection of Secondary and Tertiary Containment Systems

Chris Dickinson

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Paper 19: Practical Application of the Chemical and Downstream Oil Industry Forum (CDOIF) Guideline “Environmental Risk Tolerability for COMAH Establishments”

Ron Graham

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Paper 20: Fire and explosion risk in biodiesel production plants - a case study

Luca Marmo, Enrico Danzi, Leonardo Tognotti, Valerio Cozzani, Ernesto Salzano, Valeria Casson Moreno and Daniela Riccio

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Paper 21: Effectiveness of oil mist detectors in relation to oil mist droplet size and concentration

Andrew Thorpe and Sumeet Pabby

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Paper 22: Is there a bomb in your basement? Boiler explosion hazards that are often forgotten in risk assessments

Gaynor Woodford-Phillips

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Paper 23: Integrating ALARP and Inherent Safety into Fast-Track Design

David Stephens and Simon Round

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Paper 24: Interlocking isolation valves – less is more

Andy Brazier

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Paper 25: Studying the relationship between inherently safer design and equipment reliability

Nilesh Ade, Guanlan Liu and M. Sam Mannan

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Paper 26: Measuring Human Performance - The next big challenge

Ian Travers

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Paper 27: Organisational Change Management – Making a Change, Managing Hazards, Protecting People

Catherine Tait and Sophie Whitehead

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Paper 28: Worker Fatigue Risk Management in Practice: Benefits and Challenges?

Colleen Butler and Julie Bell

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Paper 29: PSM is not decreasing the number of Loss Events. What does a CEO need to know to stop Engineers and Operators blowing up the Plant?

Derek Lawler

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Paper 30: Addressing the Dissonance between Corporate and Individual Process Safety Drivers

Angus Keddie

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Paper 31: The Silo Factor – Why Tackling Silos Can Improve Process Safety Performance

Conrad Ellison

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Paper 32: Seven Years on from Deep Water Horizon – How the Global Industry has Applied the Learning from the Response

Steven Flynn

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Paper 33: Our disabling road accident – lessons relevant to process industries

Chris Arthey

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Paper 34: An Analysis of Common Causes of Major Losses in the Onshore Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Industries

Ron Jarvis and Andy Goddard

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Paper 35: The “Duktus” for the Assessment of Explosion Hazards – a Methodical Toolbox for Application

Katharina Maiwald, Bastian Liske and Uli Barth

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Paper 36: A closer look to some aspects of the methodology of hazardous area classification using CFD

Lorenzo Mauri and Kees van Wingerden

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Paper 37: Area Zoning, its role in a Risk-Based Process Safety Programme for Combustible Dusts

Stephen Garner, Brenton Cox, Justin Bishop and Mark Fecke

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Paper 38: A hierarchical guide to evaluating your Asset Integrity Management System against international practice

Mark Wright and Jerry Mullins

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Paper 39: Safety, Human Factors, Culture and Lessons learnt from Decommissioning

Azzam Younes

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Paper 40: Offshore critical barrier identification; management of their continuing suitability and their verification

Richard Potter and Justin Holroyd

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Paper 41: Characterisation of a vehicle fire on a 7 tonne LPG road tanker

Lorraine Jenney

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Paper 42: The importance of considering realistic blast waveforms and corresponding methods of assessing structural damage when conducting quantitative risk assessments

Christopher Stirling, Nicolas Misselbrook, Lisa Nikodym, John Mould and James Wesevich

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Paper 43: Numerical predictions of the rollover phenomenon using computational fluid dynamics

Antoine Hubert, Siaka Dembele, Petr Denissenko and Jennifer Wen

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Paper 44: Consequences of the failure of mobile gas vessels

D. Krentel, R. Tschirschwitz, M. Kluge, E. Askar, K. Habib, H. Kohlhoff, G. Mair, P. Neumann, M. Rudolph, A. Schoppa, S. U. Storm and M. Szczepaniak

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Paper 45: Novel application of the bow tie technique for the analysis of the NFPA 59A standard

Maria Mallafrè Garcia, Mike Wardman and Jill Wilday

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Paper 46: It’s not what we don’t know that is the problem; it’s what we do know that isn’t so

Graeme Dick

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Paper 47: Representing Human Factors in Bow Ties as per the new CCPS/EI Book

Mark Manton, Martin Johnson, Robin Pitblado, Charles Cowley, Tim McGrath, Ron McLeod and Rob Miles

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Paper 48: In a Globalised World is Process Safety becoming harmonised?

Pat Swords

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Paper 49: Safety System Fire Analysis – How can fire challenge the safe operation of a facility? And how can it be established whether a fire can cause a facility/process to enter an unsafe state?

James Daley

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Paper 50: High Risk Process Loops - A case study using Fire Hazard Analysis to effectively manage fire escalation risk

David Black, Karen Vilas and Robert Magraw

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Paper 51: Domino effect triggered by fire: performance assessment of safety barriers in harsh environmental conditions

Gabriele Landucci, Marta Bucelli, Nicola Paltrinieri and Valerio Cozzani

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Paper 52: Analysis of Combustible Dust Flash Fires on Personal Protective Equipment Fabrics

Sean O’Hern, Michael Stern, David Anderson, Alfonso Ibarreta & Timothy Myers

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Paper 53: Existing Challenges in Incorporating Process Safety Management in Developing Countries and ways to Overcome

Yogesh Koirala, Andres Hernandez and M. Sam Mannan

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Paper 54: Development of the Singapore QRA Guidelines

Mike Wardman, Jill Wilday and Laurence Cusco

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Paper 55: Safety Case Regulations for Major Hazard Facilities in Cuba

Fidel Ilizástigui Pérez

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Paper 56: Process Safety Management – Creating a Sustainable Global Approach

Rachelle Doyle

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Paper 57: Improving front line and managerial loss of containment incident safety decision making and dynamic risk assessment through new guidance and a training toolkit

Peter Waite, Gary Macalister, Glenn Sibbick, Alan McIntyre and Mark Scanlon

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Paper 58: Retaining Knowledge for Process Safety Management

Michael Kelleher, Tony Potts and Trixie Pomares

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Paper 59: Using Human Factors risk analyses to develop risk-informed competence standards

Neil Hunter, Jamie Henderson and David Embrey

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Paper 60: Making your retrospective HAZOP reviews smarter and more efficient whilst still ensuring that key holes in process safety barriers are identified

Graeme Ellis

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Paper 61: Development of a Creeping Change HAZID Methodology

Richard Goff and Justin Holroyd

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Paper 62: Practical experience with Deep Dive Assessments to identify key Major Accident Hazard risk factors on operational facilities

Graeme Laughland

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Paper 63: Assessment of the maximum gas generation rate of a gas generating system under runaway conditions

Nepu Saha, Marcelo Castier, Rym Kanes and Luc Véchot

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Paper 64: Managing the Chemical Reactivity Hazards associated with Hazardous Waste

Stephen Garner, Brenton Cox, Brock Bobbitt, Russel Ogle and Beverley Parrish

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Paper 65: The Relationship between a Thermal Analysis and a Safety-Relevant Problem

Bastian Liske, Katharina Maiwald, Uli Barth and Pablo Lerena Eskenazi

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Paper 66: Functional Safety - Finding the Right Balance

Hervé Vaudreya and Clive de Salis

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Paper 67: Proof Testing... A key performance indicator for designers and end users of Safety Instrumented Systems

David Green and Ron Bell

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Paper 68: Barrier Management in the Design of Unattended Offshore Oil and Gas Installations

Adrian Bunn

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Poster 1: Relevance of PERSEE for the Calculation of the Consequences of an Accidental Release of a Mix of Natural Gas and Hydrogen

Arnaud Foissac, Vincent Blanchetière, Gael Blanchetière and Nicolas Herchin

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Poster 2: Modelling Flammable Chemical Major Hazards Using the DRIFT 3 Dispersion Model

Zoe Chaplin, Helen Cruse, Harvey Tucker and Graham Tickle

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Poster 3: UK Nuclear Safety Cases - Towards a Unified Approach

Chris Brookes-Mann

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Poster 4: Fire Consequence Modelling – A comparison of the results from PHAST and KFX

Sharad Gupta and Woody Wong

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Poster 5: Safety Barrier Management and Risk Assessment: integration for safer operations in the Oil & Gas industry

Marta Bucelli, Nicola Paltrinieri, Gabriele Landucci and Valerio Cozzani

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Poster 6: Human Error - a Cause or just a Symptom

Tim Southam

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Poster 7: What is possible today in creating a Process Safety Management strategy that we are fully committed to and how will we each contribute?

Steve Lewis

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Poster 8: Integrated Process Systems Hazard Analysis (IPSHA): A Resilience-Based Approach

Prerna Jain, William J. Rogers, Hans J. Pasman and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 9: Standardisation of Bow Tie Methodology and Terminology via a CCPS/EI Book

Mark Manton, Martin Johnson, Robin Pitblado, Charles Cowley, Tim McGrath, Ron McLeod, Rob Miles and Kiran Krishna

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Poster 10: Enhancing Safety and Risk Management, from Conception to Delivery – Integrating Lessons and Good Practices to Maximise the Performance of HAZOP (and Similar) Studies

Fillipe Dobbin Caruso

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Poster 11: Learning from Incidents - Linking incident analysis with BowTie based risk assessments

Paul McCulloch

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Poster 12: A New Semi-Automated HAZID Method for More Comprehensive Identification of Hazardous Scenarios

Sunhwa Park, Amol Jayant Bansod, Hans Pasman, William Rogers and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 13: Operational Implementation Of The Bow–Tie - Managing Business Optimisation Through Improved Safety and Risk Control

David Evans, Edi Gittenberger and Alan McDonald

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Poster 14: Is there value in a ‘one size fits all’ approach to risk matrices?

Carolyn Nicholls and Jennifer Carroll

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Poster 15: Benefits of Detailed CFD Ventilation Analysis During Early Design Phases

Josué Quilliou

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Poster 16: Leadership and Management for Safety – Assessing Your Strengths

Jonathan Berman and Shona Watson

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Poster 17: Updated Leak Frequency Modelling Based on the UK Hydrocarbon Release Database

Brian Bain

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Poster 18: New International Failure Frequency Analysis (FFA) Database for Gas Transmission Pipelines

M.R. Acton and Z.E. Wattis

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Poster 19: Maintenance program of blowout preventer under high-temperature high-pressure conditions

Nilesh Ade, Denis Su-Feher, Guanlan Liu and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 20: Facility Layout Optimization of LNG-FSRU System

Chenxi Ji, Monir Ahammad and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 21: Incorporating Human Factors Engineering Methods in the System Life Cycle of Offshore Oil and Gas Industries

Changwon Son, Syeda Zohra Halim, Yogesh Koirala and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 22: Quantifying Ease of Control for Inherently Safer Process Design and Optimization

Denis Su-Feher, Yogesh Koirala, Efstratios Pistikopoulos and M. Sam Mannan

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Poster 23: Comprehensive review on hazards related to lithium-ion batteries technology

Harold U. Escobar-Hernandez, Guanlan Liu, M. Sam Mannan and Maria I. Papadaki

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Poster 24: Assessing safety culture: recent developments and lessons learnt

Michael Wright, Rebecca Canham and Shona Watson

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