Safety and Loss Prevention
Hazards 24
Hazards 24 was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK on 7-9 May 2014.
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Paper 1. Estimating possible impact of the Seveso III Directive for the UK to inform negotiation and implementation
Jill Wilday, Susan Fraser, Brian Fullam, Sandra Ashcroft and Rachel McCann
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Paper 2. There is no such thing as a black swan process incident
Paul Amyotte, Alyssa Margeson, Amelie Chiasson and Faisal Khan
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Paper 3. Lessons learnt from completing formal safety assessments for FLNG facilities
Christopher Jones
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Paper 4. Modelling of accidental hydrocarbon releases in QRAs: Hole size versus initial release rate basis
Brian Bain, Andy Bolsover, Asmund Huser, Andreas Falck and Cynthia Spitzenberger
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Paper 5. HAZOPS are not the only fruit
Conor Crowley and Nigel Bowker
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Paper 6. Decision making using Human Reliability Analysis
Fabio Oshiro
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Paper 7. A guide to enhancing process safety and plant efficiency through the competence of Control Room Operators (CROs)
Paul Leach, Michael Wright and Stuart King
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Paper 8. Human factors result in alarms and trips failing to achieve the expected risk reduction
A. G. Foord
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Paper 9. Task identification for human factors safety critical task analysis
Jamie Henderson
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Paper 10. A simple end-to-end guide to COMAH report writing and management
Mark Manton and Brad Eccles
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Paper 11. Shift handover – where are we now?
Jim Ross
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Paper 12. Developing safety leadership behaviours in a Latin American power generation company
Johnny Mitchell, Michael Bernard and Juan C. Villagrán
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Paper 13. Management reviews of process safety
John C. Wincek
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Paper 14. Lack of proper safety management systems in Nigeria oil and gas pipelines
Uzoma Nnadi, Zaki El-Hassan, David Smyth and James Mooney
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Paper 15. Improving organisational learning: why don’t we learn effectively from incidents and other sources?
John Wilkinson and Helen Rycraft
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Paper 16. PSM lessons from a major reformer furnace failure
Rod Prior
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Paper 17. Lessons learned from major accidents having significant impact on the environment
Zsuzsanna Gyenes, Maureen Heraty Wood
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Paper 18. SIL determination and high demand mode
Alan G. King
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Paper 19. Optimizing maintenance to manage the major accident risk
Peter Okoh
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Paper 20. A risk-based approach to safety distance determination in the process industry
Renato Benintendi, Angela Deisy Rodriguez Guio and Samuel March
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21. Small scale experimental study of vaporization rates of liquid nitrogen released on water
Nirupama Gopalaswami, M. Sam Mannan, Luc Vechot and Tomasz Olewski
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Paper 22. Modelling of time-dependent dispersion for releases including potential rainout
Henk W.M. Witlox and Mike Harper
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23. Accumulation of hydrogen released into an enclosure fitted with passive vents – experimental results and simple models
P. Hooker, J.R. Hoyes and J. Hall
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Paper 24. Stochastic SIL verification for complex safety instrumented systems
Sara Shahidi and Mehran Pourzand
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Paper 25. Integrity challenges in harsh environments: lessons learned and potential development strategies
Faisal Khan, Salim Ahmed, Seyed Javad Hashemi, Ming Yang, Susan Caines and Dan Oldford
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Paper 26. Well integrity – Christmas tree acceptable leakage rate and sustained casing pressure
Mrudhul Raj
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Paper 27. Validation of the new ignition source “exploding wire” for dust explosion testing in the 20-L-sphere
Arne Krietsch, Yolada Kwangvitayanon, Martin Schmidt, Alexander Klippel, Volkmar Schröder and Marc Scheid
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Paper 28. Hazardous area classification for biomass
Steven Sherwen and Herodotos Phylaktou
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Paper 29. Dust explosions – hazardous area classification – powder handling areas
Di Shen, Olivier Leroy and Keith Plumb
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Paper 30. Developing options for providing COMAH site information to the public, under the Seveso III Directive
Jane Durling, Daniel Gaskarth, Aidan Whitfield, Sandra Ashcroft and Rachel McCann
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Paper 31. What is good practice for the proof testing of safety instrumented systems of low safety integrity?
Jeff Wood
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Paper 32. Certification for the IEC61508 group of standards put into perspective
Clive de Salis
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Paper 33. Application of global sensitivity analysis to FDS simulations of large LNG fire plumes
Adrian Kelsey, Simon Gant, Kevin McNally and Steven Betteridge
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Paper 34. A methodology based on fault tree analysis to assess the domino effect frequency
Antioco López-Molina, Richart Vázquez-Román, Efraín Quiroz Pérez and M. Guadalupe Félix-Flores
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35. Modelling transient leaks from pressure vessels including effects of safety systems
Jan Stene, Mike Harper and Henk W.M. Witlox
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Paper 36. Environmental risk tolerability for major accident hazard sites: A method for quantifying and assessing environmental risk
M. Nicholas, I. Brocklebank, J. Coates, P. Davidson and H. Bray
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Paper 37. Fire water retention – latest guidance for appropriate design
Pat Swords
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Paper 38. Design of a safe hazardous materials warehouse
Renato Benintendi and Simon Round
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Paper 39. Burning and explosion properties of metallic nano powders
Arne Krietsch, Marc Scheid, Martin Schmidt and Ulrich Krause
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Paper 40. A Correlation of the lower flammability limit for hybrid mixtures
Jiaojun Jiang, Yi Liu and M. Sam Mannan
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Paper 41. The influence of reduced pressure on flame propagation in dust/air mixtures
Hannes Kern, Gerald J. Wieser and Harald Raupenstrauch
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Paper 42. Benchmarking human factors in the process industries
Jamie Elliott, Sarah Grindrod and Paul Sirett
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Paper 43. Development of a task analysis programme addressing safety critical tasks at INEOS ChlorVinyls, Runcorn site
Colin Brunold and Clive Mattock
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Paper 44. Linking task analysis with other process safety activities
Andy Brazier
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Paper 45. Behavioural strategies for improving systems, conditions and behaviours
Manuel Rodriguez and James Birch
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Paper 46. Inclusive and integrated risk assessment, risk management and SIF definition under the IEC61508 group of standards
Clive de Salis
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Paper 47. The process safety audit – a corporate comfort blanket?
Lee Allford
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Paper 48. Where are your SIL assessments now?
Jo Fearnley
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Paper 49. TOSCA – Total Operations Management for Safety Critical Activities: Industry needs for innovative methods
Olga Aneziris, Zoe Nivolianitou, Myrto Konstantinidou, Ioannis Papazoglou, Tom Kontogiannis, Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Emmanuel Plot, Marko Gerbec, Valerio Cozzani and Marco Pontigia
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Paper 50. Safety case on a page
Sally Forbes
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Paper 51. The CO2PipeHaz good practice guidelines for CO2 pipeline safety
Jill Wilday, Ju Lynne Saw, Mike Wardman and Mike Bilio
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Paper 52. Inherent safety application to ensure an ALARP design at concept stage
Khama Matiti
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Paper 53. A study of pressure safety valve response times under transient overpressures
Bruce Ewan, Colin Weil and M. Scanlon
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Paper 54. Consequence modelling of large LNG pool fires on water
Steven Betteridge, James Hoyes, Simon Gant and Matthew Ivings
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Paper 55. Analysis of fire and explosion hazards during surface transport of liquefied petroleum gas: A case study
Nilambar Bariha, Indra Mani Mishra, Vimal Chandra Srivastava
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Paper 56. Endex stabilization of thermally unstable and explosive liquid phase systems
Rowena Ball
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Paper 57. Study on mitigating ammonium nitrate fertiliser explosion hazards
Zhe Han, Alba Pineda, Sonny Sachdeva, M. Sam Mannan and Maria I. Papadaki
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Paper 58. Dynamic simulation of Texas City Refinery explosion for safety studies
Joseph Isimite and Philip Rubini
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Paper 59. Runaway chemical reaction at Corden Pharmachem, Cork
S. J. Gakhar, S. M. Rowe, M. Boylan and P. Conneely
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Paper 60. Flixborough: Lessons which are still relevant today
Robin Turney
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Paper 61. Comparison of predictions from the gas dispersion model DRIFT (Version 3) against URAHFREP data
Graham Tickle
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Paper 62. Consequence analysis of uncontrolled fluid flow in wellbore
Ruochen Liu, Ray Mentzer, Sam Mannan and Rashid Hasan
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Paper 63. A new integral dispersion model based on one-dimensional turbulence theory
Jeffrey Rowley
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Paper 64. Characteristics of companies with great process safety performance
Jack McCavit, Scott Berger, Louisa Nara and Cheryl Grounds
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Paper 65. Why don’t all our facilities succeed in applying corporate process safety requirements and what can we do about it?
Richard Gowland
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Paper 66. Sustaining effective corporate governance in process safety across global manufacturing sites
Julian Hought and Andrew Fowler
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Paper 67. Selection, training and development processes to support effective supervisor safety behaviour within the UK oil & gas industry
George Petrie
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Paper 68. Making facilities safer by design
Graeme Ellis
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Paper 69. Corporate memory – the collective brain and the struggle against amnesia
John Evans and Gordon Martin
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Poster 1. Organisational and safety culture models
Elizabeth Jacob
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Poster 2. Safety by context
Stefan G.Kovacs and Eugenie Posdărăscu
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Poster 3. Improvement in Release Frequencies for Quantitative Risk Assessment
Andrew Crerand, Simon Chynoweth and Steve Richardson
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Poster 4. A database of Safety Performance Indicators for the Explosives Industry: A report on an initiative to create a database of Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) in the UK
David Threlfall and Terry Bridgewater
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Poster 5. HAZOP study training – a modern approach
Brian Tyler and Phillip Aspinall
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Poster 6. SIL and Functional Safety – some lessons we still have to learn
David Craig
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Poster 7. Vulnerability assessment – one step further towards a better safety
Stefan G. Kovacs and Eugenie Posdărăscu
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Poster 8. Looking Beyond Relief System Design Standards
Mark Reilly and Thomas Craddock
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Poster 9. Operational Risk Using BowTie Methodology
Richard Emery
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Poster 10. A Generic Model To Assess Major Incident Frequencies For Offshore Assets
Richard Emery
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Poster 11. Is all Safety-Critical Equipment Critical to Safety?
John C. Wincek
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Poster 12. “Assurance and Verification Practitioner’s Guide” – Three Years On
David Richardson and Nigel Bowker
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Poster 13. Real-time risk assessment and decision support using Bayesian networks
Andy Bolsover and Andreas Falck
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Poster 14. Pressure Relief Valves – is there a need when there are EDVs?
Glenn Pettitt and Philip Pennicott
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