Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 19

28-30 March 2006

(Published as IChemE Symposium series no. 151).

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1. Uncertainty in the risk assessment process – the challenge of making reasonable business decisions within the framework of the precautionary principle

C.J. Beale The Burgoyne Memorial Lecture

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2. How can we drive down incident rates by the use of incident records and data bases?

F.K. Crawley

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3. Corporate manslaughter and how to handle a regulatory investigation following serious injury or death

G. Lewis

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4. ‘Hydrogen: too dangerous to base our future upon?’

M. Ricci, G. Newsholme, P. Bellaby and R. Flynn

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5. Principles for learning lessons from incidents – a UK perspective

D. Keeley, S. Gadd and B. Fullam

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6. How we changed the safety culture

T. A. Kletz

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7. Organisational drift – a challenge for enduring safety performance

J. Berman and P. Ackroyd

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8. Process safety trends in a transition economy – a case study

S. Kovacs

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9. Managing the risks of change

A. Brazier

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10. Hearts and Minds programmes the road map to improved HSE culture

R. Holstvoogd, G. van der Graaf, R. Bryden, V. Zijlker and P. Hudson

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11. Site reports and pollution prevention under PPC in the surface treatment sector

D. Jacobi, N. Taylor, D. Elliott and S. Rowan

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12. The implications to industrial sites of risk and hazard-based approaches to managing land contamination

M. McBarron

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13. Environment: selecting a processing technology to treat secondary pharmaceutical manufacturing effluent streams

D. Coleman, K. Kuma, I. McConvey and C. Whittam

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14. Water hammer – do we need to protect against it? How to predict it and prevent it damaging pipelines and equipment

S. C. Ord

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15. Modelling the consequence of hazardous multi-component two-phase releases to the atmosphere

H. W. M. Witlox, M. Harper, P. Topalis and S. Wilkinson

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16. Support of training in safety technology by use of high speed film material from real experiments

H. Schneider

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17. Possibilities, limitations, and the way ahead for dust explosion modelling

T. Skjold, Ø. Larsen and O. R. Hansen

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18. Hazardous area classification of low pressure natural gas systems using CFD predictions

S. E. Gant, M. J. Ivings, A. Jones and R. Santon

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19. Experiences and issues in ATEX and DSEAR compliance

T. Ennis

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20. An examination of the use of digital communications in safety-related applications

A. J. White

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21. Practical experience in determining safety integrity levels for safety instrumented systems

G. R. Ellis and M. Wharton

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22. Area classification methodology for hydrogen-cooled alternators in power stations

G. R. Astbury and S. Cornwell

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23. Vapour cloud explosion risk management in onshore plant using explosion exceedance techniques

G. A. Chamberlain and J. S. Puttock

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24. Ignition of dust clouds and dust deposits by friction sparks and hotspots

R.L. Rogers, S. Hawksworth, J. Gummer, M. Beyer, D. Lakic, C. Proust and D. Raveau

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25. Impact ignition of hydrogen-air mixtures

S. J. Jones, A. F. Averill, J. M. Ingram, P. G. Holborn, P. Battersby, P. F. Nolan, I. D. Kempsell and M. J. Wakem

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26. Dispersion of hydrogen from high-pressure sources

P. T. Roberts, L. C. Shirvill, T. A. Roberts, C. J. Butler and M. Royle

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27. Practical experience in carrying out non-electrical equipment ignition risk assessments

S. J. Gakhar, S. D. Taylor, I. Barker and P. Clayton

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28. Mitigation of hydrogen – air explosion using fine water mist sprays

S. J. Jones, A. F. Averill, J. M. Ingram, P. G. Holborn, P. Battersby, P. F. Nolan, I. D. Kempsell, M. J. Wakem

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29. Formal method of communicating operating procedures

C. Palmer, P. W. H. Chung, S. A. McCoy and J. Madden

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30. The impact of an aging workforce on systems safety and reliability and additional error-producing conditions as applied to an existing human reliability assessment method

J. C. Williams, J. L. Bell, N. D. Warren and C. Daniels

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31. Why do people do what they do? – Influencing the human factors in accidents at work

P. Joyner, R. Lardner, G. Reeves, A. Small and J. Smith

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32. Enhancing safety culture – simple, effective approaches to making improvement

P. Ackroyd and S. Marsden

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34. Perception of basis of SHE and SHE Risk Management

P. Berg and R. Preston

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35. Simplified methods for vent disposal system sizing for runaway chemical reactions: EC award project guidance for SMEs

J. A. Hare, A. J. Wilday and A. Owens

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36. Assessing the role of instrumented protective systems in the basis of safety for batch reactors

G. Brennan and P. Harding

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37. Large-scale evaluation of vent-sizing methodology for vapour-pressure systems

T. J. Snee, J. Bosch Pagans, L. Cusco, F. Gallice, C. Hoff, D. C. Kerr, A. Rovetta and M. Royle

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38. A comparison of DSC and Radex for the investigation of safety parameters for inhomogeneous systems

M. Luginbuehl and I. Priestley

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39. Reaction hazard assessment and risk reduction in the changing world of the process industries

D. Tee and S. Waldram

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40. Evaluation of alternative swell models for reactor relief

A. G. Colomer and R. L. Rogers

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41. Risk aversion or risk management – avoiding 'chocolate firewalls' that melt away just when you most need them

G. Sellers, J. Stevens and M. Dodd

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42. Measuring corporate health and safety performance – the value of a universal indicator

D. Walker

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43. Pitfalls in implementing and using safety management systems and behavioural modification programmes

R. Prior

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44. Applying behaviour-based methods as part of a strategy to manage process safety

C. Marsh and R. Fair

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45. Identifying the impact of psychological ill-health on safety performance

R. Scaife, S. Merg, C. Amati

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46. Corporate memory loss – a quality cure?

N. J. L. Gardener and J. A. Bainbridge

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47. Benefits of S2S network for SMEs S2S, a gateway for plant and process safety

R. Nomen, J. Sempere, E. Serra and M. Grillo

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48. Property insurance: risk quality assessment

S. Kenyon

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49. The modified cumulative frequency equivalent – a potential measure of off-site risk

D. A. Carter

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50. Leak frequencies from the hydrocarbon release database

J. Spouge

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51. A methodology for risk-based safety assurance in the major hazards industries

P. Naylor and A. Taleb-Bendiab

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52. Plant specific ignition probability model and correlations for use in onshore and offshore QRA

D. Mansfield, D. Aberdeen, S. Connolly and M. Scanlon

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53. Proposal for risk assessment and management guidelines for small and medium-sized enterprises

A. Bernatik

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54. Summary of the current UK position on decommissioning safety cases and control of operations

A. Trimble

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55. Determination of safety integrity levels taking into account ALARP – cost benefit analysis

C. Timms

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56. Hazops and human factors

P. Aspinall

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57. Further developments of the capability maturity model to monitor activities supporting the offshore industry

J. Sharp, J. Strutt, E. Terry, D. Galbraith and R.

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58. Permits-to-work in the process industries

J. Gould

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59. “Understanding major accident hazard management – the more you know, the more you know you don't know”

S. Ditchburn and D. David

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60. E-learning systems – a way to maintain competence?

D. Oberhagemann

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61. Is hazard management working?

G. Dalzell and A. Hopkins

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62. ViewRisk: risk calculation software

P. A. Davies, D. Quinn and D. A. Carter

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63. Pressure relief considerations for low-pressure (atmospheric) storage tanks

T. Ennis

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64. Controlling the fire risks from composite IBCs

G. Atkinson and N. Riley

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65. Preparing an inerted storage silo for decommissioning

A. Crow, R. Verma and I. Kempsell

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66. Gross disproportion, step by step – a possible approach to evaluating additional measures at COMAH sites

M. H. Goose

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67. Assessing the potential for ignition from mechanical equipment

S. Hawksworth, R. Rogers, M. Beyer, C. Proust, D. Lakic, J. Gummer and D. Raveau

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68. Cool flames – laboratory curiosity or industrial hazard?

G. R. Astbury

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69. Application of inherently safer design principles in biodiesel production process

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

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70. Explosion at the Conoco Humber Refinery – 16th April 2001

J. Carter, P. Dawson and R. Nixon

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71. ConocoPhillips response to the saturate gas plant fire and explosion incident

D. Hughes

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Poster 1. Auditing of safety management system in Estonian medium-scale enterprises

P. Tint and M. Kempinen

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Poster 2. A vapour hazard index for use with COSHH and DSEAR

M.J. Pitt

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Poster 3. Development of source terms for gas dispersion and vapour cloud explosion modelling

A. Ennis

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Poster 4. Using HSE's national population database tool for risk assessment

H. McManus, H. Balmforth and A. Fowler

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Poster 5. Health and safety: influencing change in SMEs

E. M. Hickling, P. Stephens, L. Gaskell, R. Cousins and P. J. Kelly

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