Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 29

Hazards 29 was held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, UK on 22-24 May 2019.

Keynote presentations

  • Trevor Kletz Hazards Lecture – Applying Safety to Unconventional Risks
    Mike Bell
  • It's About the 'AND'
    Tracy Whipple
  • Applying Process Safety and Systems Thinking to a Wider World - How Do We Break Down the Silos and Share Our Knowledge
    Dame Judith Hackitt
  • Unified Command - a Comprehensive Approach to Hazards Response
    Mark Neate
  • How Do We Achieve, Maintain and Demonstrate Competencies for Process Safety?

Papers and Posters

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Paper 01 - Developing Human Factors Maturity

Janette Edmonds

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Paper 02 - Organisational Change: Learning from Experience

Lorraine Braben and Nick Morris

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Paper 03 - Breaking with Tradition: Business-Wide Human Factors Integration on a Global Scale

Peter Webb and Richard Scaife

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Paper 04 - The Treatment of Generic Task Elements in Human Factors Critical Task Reviews, Competence Management, and Procedures

Jamie Henderson, Martin Burrows and Steve Potts

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Paper 05 - Assessment of Toxic Risks from Warehouse Fires

Graham Atkinson and Brian Briggs

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Paper 06 - Failure of Above-ground Storage Tanks (AST): A New Methodology for Assessing Consequences

Chris Robinson, Euan Stoddart, Kunle Fajuyitan, Tristan Vye and Mark Scanlon

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Paper 07 - Application of Bayesian Belief Networks to assess hydrogen gas retention hazards and equipment reliability in nuclear chemical plants

Fayaz Ahmed

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Paper 08 - Experimental Investigation of Potential Confined Ignition Sources for Vapour Cloud Explosions

Jason Gill, Graham Atkinson, Edmund Cowpe, Herodotus Phylaktou and Gordon Andrews

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Paper 09 - Comparison of Building Design: Design Accidental Loads vs. Risk-Based

Rafael Callejas-Tovar and Joshua Bruce-Black

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Paper 10 - Control room design - guidance document EEMUA 201 3rd edition updated 2018

Andy Brazier

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Paper 11 - Emergency Depressurisation - Why 6.9 barg in 15 minutes is not always the answer

Cameron Milne and Duncan Talbert

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Paper 12 - Working Together for a Good Working Environment

David Edwards and Mette Mathiesen

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Paper 13 - What is the Value of the Environment?

Carolyn Nicholls, Robert Ritchie and Aimee Russell

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Paper 14 - Environmental Protection in Anaerobic Digestion: How implementation of a renewable technology can lead to greater risk of environmental harm

Euan A Munro

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Paper 15 - ALARPing risk reduction measures: Better quantification for better results

Jack Davy, David Craig and Stuart Turner

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Paper 16 - Using risk assessment to support investment decision-making

John Barker, John Cronin and Gemma Dunjó

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Paper 17 - Caribbean Petroleum VCE Case History

Q.A. Baker, J.K. Thomas, D.R. Malik and M.T. Edel

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Paper 18 - Creeping Change: Liquid Accumulation in a Flare System at a Gas Terminal

Roger Berriman

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Paper 19 - Chemical Incident Investigation, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals (MIC), Stallingborough UK, 2010

Stephen Graham, Jonathan Buston, Brian Fotheringham and Stephen Hargreaves

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Paper 20 - Computational Fluid Dynamics or Gaussian – is there a right way to model gas dispersion?

Andy Stanley, Naomi Warrilow, Amita Tripathi and Claude Souprayen

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Paper 21 - CFD Modelling of Underexpanded Hydrogen Jets Exiting Rectangular Shaped Openings

J.R Stewart

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Paper 22 - Elevated LNG Dispersion - Effects of topography and phase change

Felicia Tan, Chris Savvides and Vincent Tam

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Paper 23 - Practical Leadership for Process Safety Management

Ian Travers

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Paper 24 - Safety Performance Improvement using Cultural Change – Lessons Learned

Brad Eccles, Mark Manton, Steve Arendt and Rick Curtis

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Paper 25 - Simplifying COSHH and Improving Chemical Safety

Stuart Morgan, Mark Stewart and Tasha Bennett

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Paper 26 - CHASE - Visualising cyber security vulnerabilities and risk

Andy Geddes and David Hatch

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Paper 27 - If it is not (cyber) secure, it is not safe

Mike StJohn-Green and Dil Wetherill

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Paper 28 - Developing a Combined Lifecycle Management Approach for Both Functional Safety and Security for SIS

John Walkington and Suresh Sugavanam

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Paper 29 - Avoiding Engineering Catastrophe: New Insights from Data

Matt Clay, Tim Boardman, Tony Wynn, Steven Naylor, Jo Ellwood, Jim Murphy and Moray Kidd

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Paper 30 - CCPS Incident Investigation Book, Third Edition

R.C. Stokes, Q.A. Baker, M.P. Broadribb, T.V. Rodante and C.A. Grounds

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Paper 31 - Review of recent incidents involving flammable mists

Philip Lees, Simon Gant, Richard Bettis, Alexis Vignes, Jean-Marc Lacome and Olivier Dufaud

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Paper 32 - What Went Right

Paul Amyotte

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Paper 33 - New NEBOSH/HSE qualification in process safety management

Justin Holroyd, Richard Goff, Jill De Nardo and Matthew Powell-Howard

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Paper 34 - Spreading the Word - The Use and Future of IChemE’s Fundamentals of Process Safety Course

Phil Eames, Andrew Hudson and Ken Patterson

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Paper 35 - Managing Process Safety in a Decommissioning Project

Michael Green, Paul Franklin, Jennifer Pearce and Lee Allford

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Paper 36 - HAZOP Revalidation and Focus on Major Accident Hazards

Paul Kenny

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Paper 37 - Effective Implementation of Process Hazard Analysis in Challenging Working Environments

Arafat Aloqaily and Mohaned Faisal

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Paper 38 - Safety Instrumented System Functional Safety Assessment Experiences

Jon Keswick

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Paper 39 - Variability: Threat or Asset?

Ben Ale, Des Hartford and David Slater

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Paper 40 - Use of photographic surveys to enhance safety studies and inspection

Ian Herbert

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Paper 41 - Bridging the Gap Between Data and Decision-Making Through Digital Transformation

Abhilash Menon

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Paper 42 - Use of Design Operating Window (DOW) Violation Monitoring Tool to reduce equipment design violations in a crude oil refinery

Karunya Nair

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Paper 43 - Automated review of offshore maintenance records

Matthew Celnik and Chris Bell

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Paper 44 - BowTies for the Digital transformation safety management systems

Coen van Gulijk and Paul McCulloch

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Paper 45 - Constructing a Legally Sound Demonstration of ALARP

Keith Miller

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Paper 46 - Hazard Analysis of Battery Energy Storage Systems

Piero Maggio, Damien Guy and David Hatch

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Paper 47 - Process Approach to Drinking Water Quality Risk Assessment Using Bowtie Analysis

Hew Cameron Merrett, Jao-Jia Horng and Wei-Tong Chen

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Paper 48 - Assessing Combinations of Hazards in a Probabilistic Safety Analysis

Halbert Taekema and Hans Brinkman

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Paper 49 - Safety Case process in Cuba: Transition from theory to practice

Fidel Ilizástigui Pérez and Hani Salem Morales

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Paper 50 - The e-SafetyCase – Electronic or Effortless?

Gareth Ellor

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Paper 51 - Moving from tenant to nuclear licence holder on a GB Nuclear Licensed Site

Denise Cárdenas Lopez

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Paper 52 - Challenges in Process Safety Assurance of a Hazardous Epoxidation

Stephen Rowe and Keith Middle

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Paper 53 - Frequencies of Oil Spills during Transfer between Ship and Shore

John Spouge

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Paper 54 - Keeping our pipelines safe: a review of French regulations and GRTgaz methodology for natural gas pipeline safety studies.

Gilles Chatelet

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Paper 55 - Pipeline Overpressure Protection using Layer of Protection Analysis

S. Shahidi, T. Little and N. Amott

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Paper 56 - The Safety Assessment of LNG Marine Bunkering

Ann Halford, Clive Robinson and David Haynes

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Paper 57 - Experiences with Fires and Explosions

Graham Morrison

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Paper 58 - Maintenance-related major accidents in the metal industry: The combustible dust challenge

Peter Okoh

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Paper 59 - Learning from Incidents – A Personal Journey over Decades of Manufacturing Hazardous Substances

Roderick Prior

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Paper 60 - Tending towards operational excellence in Oil Terminals- Using Process Safety as a key tool

Ramesh Ramalingam K, Nagarajan R, Venkata Sainath G

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Paper 61 - SPIGA, Integrated Digital System for Process Safety and Asset Management in Ecopetrol S.A.

Guillermo Eduardo Pinto Amaya

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Paper 62 - Lightning as a source of ignition

Robin Earl

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Paper 63 - Process Safety and the Hyperloop

Ian Sutton

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Paper 64 - Swiss Cheese Challenge: Creating Dialogue on Process Safety Dilemmas

Stephen Liew, Chuang Bing Lau, Norman Ingka, Anthony Kang and Sophia Wong

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Paper 65 - How Process Safety Can Apply Outside the Process Industries - Taming the Wild River Rapids

Trish Kerin

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Paper 66 - Offshore release data – trends in underlying causes

Maria Koutsoudaki, Igor Kozine, Brian Bain and Nijs Jan Duijm

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Paper 67 - Uncertainty in Explosion Risk Assessment

Chris Coffey, Richard Gibson and Marios Christou

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Paper 68 - A Comprehensive TR Gas Ingress Study Over Multiple Facilities – Summary and Conclusions

Richard Emery

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Poster 01 - Writing ‘usable’ Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Safety Cases using Bowtie methodology

Fidel Ilizástigui Pérez and Ilieva Ilizástigui Arissó

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Poster 02 - When the Holes Align

Nnamdi Anowi and Alaka Olanrewaju

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Poster 03 - Fire zoning for PSV sizing and depressurization for process systems

Manizheh Khodayari

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Poster 04 - Robust Emergency Planning and Response: Weaknesses and Key Lessons

Gemma Dunjó, John Barker and John Cronin

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Poster 05 - Case Study Using Structured What If Technique on a Gas Sweetening Process

Shrutika Agrawal

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Poster 06 - Risk Assessing the Risk Identification Process

James Turner

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Poster 07 - Pipeline puncture scenarios near fuel depots - contribution to risk and implications for land use planning

Frank Huess Hedlund, Jan Boier Pedersen, Eva Kragh, Jérôme Frutiger and Gürkan Sin

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Poster 08 - Process Safety Key Performance Indicators- A Structured Methodology

Ramesh Ramalingam K, Senthilraja M, and Venkata Sainath G

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Poster 09 - Is it time to revise Process Safety Legislation to include evolving manufacturing processes in the Biotechnology sector?

Brenda Madden and Sinead Keohane

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Poster 10 - Safety Critical Tasks and Management of Human Error

Rocio Miguez, Richard Roels and Jim Cameron

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Poster 11 - How does the Insurance Industry use the Principles of Management of Process Safety?

Marianna Grammatika

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Poster 12 - Open Path Gas Detection Information Note: Mie Scattering — A Possible Culprit for Anomalous OPGD Performance

Gemma Finnegan

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Poster 13 - Biogas -Process safety challenge

Ashok Thingore

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Poster 14 - Steps towards a ‘Living’ QRA and Instant Risk-based Decision-Making

Zoë Wattis, Paul Murray, Mike Golowczynski and Alf Sadd

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Poster 15 - Joining up the dots, taking the puzzle out of having “line of sight” to Major Accident Hazards

Gaynor Woodford-Phillips and Stephen Beedle

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Poster 16 - Poly-butadiene formation in Olefins Debutanizer Condenser

Ali Bazroun and Abdullah Ismail

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Poster 17 - An Analysis of Offshore Safety Incidents in the Last 50 years and a look into the current perspectives

Nafiz Tamim, Sam Mannan and Nazmul Karim

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