Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 18

2004

(Published as IChemE Symposium series no. 150).

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1. The Burgoyne Memorial Lecture: Uncertainty in the risk assessment process – the challenge of making reasonable business decisions within the framework of the precautionary principle

C.J. Beale

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2. Bhopal and the global movement on process safety

J.P. Gupta

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3. Process intensification: safety pros and cons

J.C.Etchells

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4. Effects of the Columbia space shuttle accident on high-risk industries or can we learn lessons from other industries?

Y.Dien and M.Llory

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5. Developing a major hazards learning culture - interpreting information from the CIBA specialty chemicals, Bradford near miss reporting system up to 2003

C.J. Beale

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6. Looking beyond alarp - overcoming its limitations

T.A.Kletz

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8. To do no harm-measuring safety performance in a transition economy

S.Kovacs

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9. Measuring corporate health and safety performance and corporate social responsibility - latest developments

S.Marsden, M.Wright and J.Shaw

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10. Safety, health and environment versus company success

M.Fröberg and R.Preston

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11. Substance prioritisation for the development of EU acute exposure toxicity thresholds: risk-informed decision making

M.Trainor, R.Macbeth, H.Balmforth, P.Ridgway and D.Bosworth

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13. COMAH competent authority strategy for COMAH regulation 8-safety report review and revision

T.Beals

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14. The Amendment of the Seveso Directive and Proposed Changes to The Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations (COMAH) 1999

David Bosworth

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15. Rethinking The Physics of a Large-Scale Vented Explosion and its Mitigation

V.V. Molkov and D.V. Makarov

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16. Are we too risk-averse for inherent safety? An examination of current status and barriers to adoption

D.W.Edwards

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17. Modelling of formation and combustion of accidentally released fuel clouds

G.M.Makhviladze and S.E.Yakush

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18. Explosions in gas turbine enclosures

D.K.Pritchard, D.Hedley and G.T.Eaton

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19. Practical approach to the dangerous substances explosive atmospheres regulations (DSEAR 2002)

G.Sellers, R.King and R.Westwood

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20. Application of DSEAR to a bulk handling facility

S.Manchester

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21. Practical guidelines and procedure for SIL ranking under IEC

M.Wass

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22. Ignition of explosive atmospheres by mechanical equipment

S.Hawksworth, R.Roger, C.Proust, M.Beyer, S.Schenk, J Gummer and D.Raveau

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23. Applying the latest standard for functional safety - IEC 61511

A.G.Foord, W.G.Gulland, C.R.Howard, T.Kellacher and W.H.Smith

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24. Common misunderstanding about the practical application of IEC 61508

H.Pearce, J.Catmur and G.Stevens

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25. Fire hazards of packaged flammable dusts - follow up of HSE's investigation and fire trails

M.I.Essa and G.Atkinson

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26. Fire hazards of plastic IBCs containing flammable or combustible liquids

G.Atkinson and N.Riley

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27. Hydrogen fabrication cracking: HSE's industrial experience, and research into defect detection with a number of NDT techniques

H.Bainbridge and B.McGrath

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28. Modelling of angled jet impingement on large flat surfaces

A.Kelsey, R.Bettis and G.Tickle

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29. Explosion hazards and protection in the use of intermediate bulk containers

P.Holbrow

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30. Simulating Dust Explosions with the First Version of DESC

T. Skjold, B. J. Arntzen, O. R. Hansen, O. J. Taraldset, I. E. Storvik and R. K. Eckhoff

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31. Design of Explosion Isolation Barriers

P. E. Moore and D. J. Spring

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32. Flash Points of Aqueous Solutions of Flammable Solvents

G. R. Astbury, J. Bugand-Bugandet, E. Grollet and K. M. Stell

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33. Solvents in Powder

Stephen Puttick and Heather Gibbon

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34. Microwave Chemistry - An Approach to the Assessment of Chemical Reaction Hazards

P. M. Gillespie

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35. The Search for Active Pharmaceuticals: Accelerating Process Development

Dr. J. Bickerton and Dr. C. A. Smith

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36. Pilot-Scale Evaluation of the Inhibition of Exothermic Runaway

T. J. Snee and L. Cusco

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37. Supercritical Hydrogenations - Using a Novel, Inherently Safer Approach

Jasbir Singh, Simon Waldrum, Jason R. Hyde and Martyn Poliakoff

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38. The Effect of Crucible Type on Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Measurements

Graham S Arthur and Craig Williams

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39. Self-Ignition of Combustible Bulk Materials Under Various Ambient Conditions

C. Lohrer, U. Krause and J. Steinbach

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40. A New Estimate of the Likelihood of Spontaneous Catastrophic Failure of Pressured LPG Storage Vessels

I. J. O'Donnell, D. W. Phillips and P. W. Winter

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41. Computer-Aided Hazop of Batch Processes

Paul W. H. Chung and Steve A. McCoy

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42. Control of Operations in the Nuclear Industry and the Derivation of Operating Rules

Dr. Andy Trimble

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43. QUICKFN - A Less Resource Intensive Methodology for Determining the Magnitude of Societal Risks at Major Accident Hazard Installations

A. H. K. Fowler, S. D. Reston, D. A. Carter, D. J. Quinn and P. A. Davies

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44. The Use of Return Periods as a Basis for Design Against External Loads

M. Considine and K. J. Glynn

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45. Occupied Buildings on Chemical Sites - Revised Chemical Industries Association Guidance and Assessment Method

Nick Berentzen, Ron De Cort and Ken Patterson

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46. Developing Internal Human Factors Expertise on a High-Hazard Site

Phil Joyner and Ronny Lardner

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47. Improving Human Factors & Safety in the Process Industries: 'The Prism Project'

Robin Turney and Lee Allford

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48. Enhancing Accident Investigation by Applying Behaviour-Based Technology

Chris Marsh, Rob Fair and Martin Iversen

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49. Reliable Qualitative Data for Safety and Risk Management

Dr. Alastair Ross and Matthew Plunkett

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50. Behavioural Safety and Major Accident Hazards: Magic Bullet or Shot in the Dark?

Martin Anderson

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51. Human Factors Integration for a New Top Tier COMAH Site - Optimising Safety and Meeting Legislative Requirements

Liz Cullen and Martin Anderson

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52. Risk Decision-Making For Chemical Process Security

David A. Moore and Lawrence M. Stanton

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53. Water Reactive Materials - Incorporation into Safety and Environmental Risk Assessments

Lyn Fernie, Paul Wright and Theo Kapias

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54. Addressing the Problems of Root Cause Analysis: A New Approach to Accident Investigation

David Embrey and Jamie Henderson

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55. A Multi-Criteria and Fuzzy Logic Based Methodology for the Relative Ranking of the Fire Hazard of Chemical Substances and Installations

A. N. Paralikas and A. I. Lygeros

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56. An Expert User's Trial of the Hazard System for Computer-aided Hazop Emulation

S. A. McCoy, F. Crawley and P. W. H. Chung

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57. The Professional Engineer and his Enhanced Duty of Care

Dr. John Bond

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58. The Brunner Mond Safety Project

D. Whitworth-Hilton

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59. Lessons from Grangemouth

Neil J. Macnaughton and Colin C. Watson

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60. Assessing Longford Gas Plant 1 Staffing Arrangements

Helen Conlin and John O’Meara

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61. An Evaluation Study of Safety Information Management in the Petrochemical Industry

Tzu-Lien Tzou, Geoff Hankinson and Paul W. H. Chung

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62. Establishing Health and Safety Requirements Outside Your Native Country

Ian Reed

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63. Process Safety Issues for Small Businesses

M. Sam Mannan, Harry H. West, Nir Keren and T. Michael O’Connor

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64. Post Licensing Oversight and Inspection of Major Hazard Facilities - An Australian Regulator's Experience

Geoff Cooke, Sarah Sinclair and Rob Sheers

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65. Environmental Risk Assessment in Support of COMAH and PPC

John Calder and Jane Capewell

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66. Evaluating the Impact of the COMAH Regime on Chemical Manufacturing Sites to Identify the Key Issues for the Next Round of Safety Report Submissions

Christopher J. Beale

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67. The Mutual Joint Visit Programme on Inspections Under Seveso III: Exchanging Lessons Learned on Inspection Best Practices

Maureen Wood

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Poster 1. OECD Guidance on Safety Performance Indicators

David Bosworth

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Poster 2. The Pimex Method - Communication by Visualisation: Bringing the Message Across by Visualizing Workplace Hazards

Harald Kviecien and Marion Venus

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Poster 3. Criteria for the Frequency and Magnitude Evaluation of Domino Effects

Concetto Aprile, Alfredo Romano, Mauro Gotti and Francesco Perrone

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Poster 4. A Study of the Droplet Size Distributions and the Reaction Heats in Liquid-Liquid Heterogeneous Reaction Process

Yasuhiro Fujimoto

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Poster 5. The Development and Application of Health and Safety Grounded Ladders ( Anchored Rating Scales) for Benchmarking

Shahana Mirza

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Poster 6. Improvement of the Safety Culture at Estonian Enterprises

Piia Tint, Gunnar Kiivet and Karin Reinhold

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