Safety and Loss Prevention
Hazards 25
Hazards 25 was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK on 13-15 May 2015.
Plenary presentations
- Trevor Kletz Hazards Lecture – Hazards Recognition and Evaluation: Implementing the Teachings of Trevor Kletz
Sam Mannan - Lessons Learned in the Chemical Industry and with the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB)
John Bresland - Process Safety Culture, Leadership and Capability
Gus Carroll - Challenges in the Development of a Corporate Memory
Dirk Roosendans - Communicating Process Safety – the Role of the Chemical Engineer: Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon
Geoff Maitland
Papers and posters
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Paper 1. Learning from Dangerous Occurrences in the Chemical Industries
John Hare, Richard Goff and Justin Holroyd
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Paper 2. Guidance on Learning From Incidents, Accidents and Events
Edward Smith, Richard Roels and Stuart King
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Paper 3. What Can We Learn from the Various Non-Technical Accident Causation Theories?
Kehinde Shaba
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Paper 4. Learning Lessons from Eight Gas Explosions
Simon-Mark Egan
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Paper 5. Making the Practical Side of Process Safety Management Work for You.
Rod Prior
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Paper 6. The Contribution of Fatigue and Shift-Work to the Buncefield Explosion and the Key Lessons for the Chemical and Allied High Hazard Industries
John Wilkinson and Julie Bell
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Paper 7. An Analysis of Safety Culture across International Societies and the Implications for Corporate Management Systems – a Bulgaria Plant Case Study
John Huckstepp and Khalida Suleymanova
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Paper 8. Whistleblowing – Avoiding the Hazards
Keith Plumb and Cathy James
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Paper 9. QRA Method for Land-Use Planning Around Natural Gas Production, Processing and Transportation Sites in the Netherlands
Eelke Kooi, Gerald Laheij and Paul Uijt de Haag
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Paper 10. Consequence Assessment for Weapon Impacts on Process Plant
Colin Rettie, Matthew Vickers and Douglas McKechnie
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Paper 11. . A Review of Damages Observed after Catastrophic Events Experienced in the Mid-Stream Gas Industry Compared to Consequence Modelling Tools.
Karim Osman, Baptiste Geniaut, Nicolas Herchin and Vincent Blanchetière
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Paper 12. The Importance of Testing in Developing Consequence and Vulnerability Models to Support Personnel Risk Calculations and to Quantify Potential Risk Mitigation
Karen Vilas and Rob Magraw
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Paper 13. Laser-Based Gas Detection Technology and Dispersion Modelling Used to Eliminate False Alarms and Improve Safety Performance on Terra Nova FPSO
Rajat Barua, Edward Sharpe, Zona Bath and Are Bratteteig
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Paper 14. Vision 20/20 Implementation Tools.
Jack McCavit and Cheryl Grounds
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Paper 15. Managing the Hazards of Flare Disposal Systems
Paul Denham and Alan Donnelly
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Paper 16. Improved Visualisations of Offshore QRAs.
James Pickles and Brian Bain
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Paper 17. Understanding Precursors to Major Accident Hazard Events Using Safety Critical Task Analysis
George Petrie and Ann Rosbrook
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Paper 18. Applying Human Factors Engineering to Control Room Upgrade Projects and to the Design of New Build Control Rooms
Janette Edmonds
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Paper 19. Why Human Error Matters More than Non-Compliance in the Major Hazard Sector
John Wilkinson
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Paper 20. The Influence of Explosion Relief Vent Layouts on Explosion Overpressures in Large Biomass Storage Vessels
Rohan Samaraweera, Chris Coffey, Dave Price and Prankul Middha
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Paper 21. Influence of Solvent Admixture on Explosibility of a Pharmaceutical Powder at Laboratory and Industrial Scale
Md Nur Hossain, Paul Amyotte and Faisal Khan
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Paper 22. EI15 4th Edition, Improvements and Application
Steve Sherwen
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Paper 23. Prediction of the Consequences of a CO2 Pipeline Release on Building Occupants
CJ Lyons, JM Race, HF Hopkins and P Cleaver
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Paper 24. Discharge and Dispersion for CO2 Releases from a Long Pipe: Experimental Data and Data Review
Hamish Holt, Jock Brown, Henk Witlox, Keith Armstrong and Dan Allason
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Paper 25. Modelling Releases of Carbon Dioxide from Buried Pipelines
Phil Cleaver, Ann Halford, Tim Coates, Harry Hopkins and Julian Barnett
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Paper 26. Creeping Changes
Richard Goff, Jill Wilday and Justin Holroyd
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Paper 27. Data Trending to Support Ageing and Life Extension (ALE) in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) Oil and Gas Industry
Colin Chambers and Howard Harte.
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Paper 28. Risks Associated with Caissons on Ageing Offshore Facilities
Michael Johnson, Paul Murray, Peter Joyce and Innes Lawtie
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Paper 29. Human Dependency in Tanker Offloading Operations
Graeme Ellis
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Paper 30. An Investigation into Chemical Tanker Offloading and Loading Processes: Do They Protect against the Full Range of Predicted Human Error Types?
Paul Lucas
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Paper 31. Using HAZOP to Address the Problem of Repeated Plant Accidents: Delayed Coker Units
Alfredo Verna, Sonny Clark and Geoff Stevens
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Paper 32. High Reliability Organising and Mindful Leadership.
Nadine Mellor, Jill Wilday, Jennifer Lunt and Justin Holroyd
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Paper 33. Inherent Safety: It's Common Sense, Now for Common Practice!
David Edwards, John Foster, Daniel Linwood, Mark McBride-Wright and Peter Russell.
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Paper 34. Organisational Amnesia: Is There a Cure?
Jonathan Berman and Michael Wright
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Paper 35. Large Scale Pressurised LNG BLEVE Experiments.
Steven Betteridge and Lee Phillips
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Paper 36. Explosion Risks at Small Scale LNG Sites.
Graham Atkinson, Jacqueline Patel, Edmund Cowper and David Painter.
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Paper 37. Improvement of Modelling of LNG Pool Fires on Water.
Karim Osman, Sabrina Belkaid, Nicolas Herchin and Vincent Blanchetière.
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Paper 38. Bottom-Line Benefits through Innovation in Process Safety KPI Management.
Martin Sedgwick and Alec Harley
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Paper 39. Creating an Effective Bowtie Barrier-Based Process Safety anagement System (and How to Avoid Getting Tied Up in Knots in the Process)
Ian Baulch-Jones and Paul McCulloch.
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Paper 40. Internal Auditing of Process Safety
Lee Allford
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Paper 41. The Evolution of Process Safety Standards and Legislation Following Landmark Events – What Have we Learnt?
Trish Kerin
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Paper 42. Seveso III – the Public Participation Challenge
Pat Swords
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Paper 43. COMAH 2015: Classification Issues in Determining Whether Establishments Are in Scope
Maria Mallafrè Garcia, Susan Fraser and Jill Wilday
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Paper 44. 6007-32-1: the New Standard on Avoidance of Electrostatic Hazards
Jeremy Smallwood
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Paper 45. Lessons Learned from the Coastal Flooding of Process Industry Sites on Teesside and Humberside by the Storm Surge on 5–6 December 2013
Aidan Whitfield, Chris Dickinson, Mike Cook, Paul Jobling, Daren Smith and Paul Fletcher
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Paper 46. The Drinking Water Crisis in West Virginia, a Process Safety Failure and a Lesson for the Chemical Industry
John Bresland, Evan Hansen and Andrew Whelton
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Paper 47. New Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance for COMAH Facilities: Effective Application of an Integrated Risk Management Approach
Katy Baker, Wendy Owen, Benjamin Raine and Sarah Grainger
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Paper 48. Cost Effective Approaches to Industrial Noise Control.
Nathan Thomas and Kenneth Dibben
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Paper 49. Fire Protection Concept for the Storage of Pyrophoric Materials
Armin Heyn
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Paper 52. Liquid Hydrogen Cyanide Polymerisation Hazards.
Craig Williams and Niklas Schwarz
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Paper 60. Development of a Risk-Based Asset Management Tool for Gas Transmission Pipelines.
M Acton, K Dimitriadis, T Manns, S Martin, D McCollum and S Potts
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Paper 63. Dispersion Modelling for Explosion Risk Analysis.
Tim Jones
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Paper 64. The Effect of the Transient Stages of an Accidental Release on Gas Cloud Formation
T Coates and C G Robinson
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Paper 65. Characteristics of Elongated Vapor Cloud Explosions
Jihui Geng, Kelly Thomas and Quentin Baker
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Paper 66. Measuring the Human Response to Alarms
Tony Atkinson
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Paper 67. LOPA: Friend or Foe?
Alan King
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Paper 68. Development of an Alarm Analysis Process for Use within the Process Industries
Neil Hunter, Jamie Henderson and David Embrey
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Poster 1. MORE FLOW!! What HAZOPs need to know about flow assurance and process control dynamics
John Evans, Laurent Gazeaud and John Gill
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Poster 2. A model evaluation protocol for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models used in safety analyses for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
S. Coldrick, A. Kelsey, B. Chernyavskiy, D. Makarov, V. Molkov, D. Baraldi, D. Melideo, S.G. Giannissi, I.C. Tolias and A.G. Venetsanos
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Poster 3. Demonstrating management competence in process safety
Sarah Grindrod, Julian Hought and Deborah Grubbe
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Poster 4. Review of source term modelling for hydrocarbon releases using process dynamic simulation
Conor Crowley, Mrudhul Raj and Andrew Ross
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Poster 5. A practicable approach to environmental risk assessment for sites with multiple hazards
Harvey T. Dearden
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Poster 6. Hazards and operability study of the chemical injection system of the UK European Pressurised Reactor
Mersiha Rozic
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Poster 7. Gas detection in process industry, the practical approach
Murtaza Gandhi, Jef Rowley, Derek Nelson and Casey Campbell
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Poster 8. Lessons learned from practical implementation of CDOIF environmental risk tolerability guideline for COMAH establishments
Fiona Parsons
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Poster 9. CFD modelling of leak of liquid CO2 from high pressure containments and subsequent atmospheric dispersion
Anjaneyulu Lankadasu, Amita Tripathi, Samuel Saysset, Angeles Yackow, and Bruno De La Roussiere
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Poster 10. A unified 3D CFD model for jet and pool fires
Chenthil Kumar K, Anil Kumar K. R. and Amita Tripathi
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Poster 11. Impact of water content in hydrocarbons using consequence modelling
Emoshoriamhe Erua
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Poster 12. Legislation and compliance including Seveso III
Barbora Kubascikova
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Poster 13. Guidelines for simulating cryogenic film boiling using volume of fluid (VOF) method
Monir Ahammad, Yi Liu, Samina Rahmani, Sam Mannan, Tomasz Olewski and Luc Vechot
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Poster 14. Performance Indicators as monitoring tool for PSM
Mohamed Elbanhawy
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Poster 15. Walk To Work (W2W) – helping to enhance safety and extend the economic life of offshore infrastructure
Hamish Holt, Chris Walker and Mike Simms
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Poster 16. HSE design reviews and action close-out
Simon Round
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Poster 17. Modelling of Transition and Nucleate Boiling of Liquid Nitrogen Spill on Concrete
Syed Quraishy, Asma Sadia, Tomasz Olewski and Luc Véchot
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Poster 18. Understanding Process Safety Culture Disease Pathologies – How to Prevent, Mitigate and Recover from Safety Culture Accidents.
Steve Arendt and Mark Manton
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Poster 19. How to Ensure Sustainable Process Safety Performance – Strategies for Managing, Maintaining, and Improving PSM Systems
Steve Arendt and Mark Manton
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