Safety is an integral part of managing a business and must always remain high on the agenda. Even in tough times, process safety standards must not be allowed to suffer. Hazards 26 will help organisations maintain that focus, offering essential technical insight into how to make their working environments safer and avoid repeating past mistakes. (Read More)
The most dangerous phrase in the industry? It can’t happen here. We continue to see process safety accidents caused by human error, a failure to learn from past incidents and a breakdown of process safety systems. The consequences can be far-reaching – risking harm to people, to the environment, to an organisation’s assets and reputation.
Hazards 26 conference will help organisations to improve process safety performance and manage risk more effectively. The conference will bring together the international process safety community to review best practice guidance and latest developments in process safety, as well as lessons learnt from past incidents. Taking place on 24–26 May in Edinburgh, UK, this is an ideal event for anyone involved with operating systems and processes handling hazardous substances across all industry sectors.
The technical programme
Hazards 26 offers a technical programme packed with top-quality presentations from leading industry practitioners, researchers and regulators, and designed around the functional areas that are fundamental to great performance in process safety – engineering and design, systems and procedures, knowledge and competence, human factors, assurance, culture, and environmental protection.
Optional pre-conference workshops offer the chance to examine the following topics in more depth: SIL and human involvement; consequence modelling; barrier performance; incident investigation; and explosion science. There’s also an opportunity to join a free discussion on the future of process safety.
Keynote speakers
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An international line-up of invited keynote speakers will provide their own strategic insight from industry, the regulator and the legal world, including the Honourable Mr Justice Haddon-Cave who will deliver the Trevor Kletz memorial lecture. A giant of the legal world, Haddon-Cave will focus on the lessons learnt from his inquiry into the RAF Nimrod crash inquiry, the biggest single loss of life to British service personnel in one incident since the Falklands War. The cause was not enemy fire, but leaking fuel being ignited by an exposed hot pipe – a simple technical failure. In his report he described the case as “A story of incompetence, complacency, and cynicism. It was fatally undermined by a general malaise: a widespread assumption that the Nimrod was ‘safe anyway’ because it had successfully flown for 30 years”. The recommendations and observations in his report provide, in his own words, “A once in a generation opportunity to learn invaluable lessons” – lessons that are directly relevant to the process industries and that are sure to provoke interesting discussion around culture and leadership.
Trade exhibition
A trade exhibition will run alongside the conference, featuring a wide range of products and services to help improve process safety performance. Visit the conference website to see the companies that are exhibiting and to find out how your organisation can get involved.
Networking opportunities
There will be plenty of opportunity for peer and industry networking, with social events including a welcome drinks reception in the exhibition area and an informal evening with a Scottish theme.
Hazards 26 takes place on 24–26 May in Edinburgh, UK. For full event details and to book your place visit:
www.icheme.org/hazards26
