Safety and Loss Prevention

Hazards 30

Hazards 30 was held in a virtual online environment 26–27 November 2020.

The Safety & Loss Prevention SIG gave a short presentation; a recording is available to view.

Those papers which are subject to Crown Copyright are freely available below, under the Open Government Licence.

Papers

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Paper 01 - The Impact of Safety Culture on Safe Operations

Andrew Laird & Esther Ventura-Medina (University of Strathclyde, UK)

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Paper 02 - Protecting the Mental Health of Employees: How Issues from Film & TV Industry Survey Correlate with Similar Factors in Other Industries

Matt Longley (Finch Consulting, UK)

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Paper 03 - Abraham Lincoln as a CEO of a Major Hazard Facility? How a Wider Understanding of Leadership Can Enhance Process Safety Leadership

Peter Webb (Beyond Risk, UK)

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Paper 04 - Detailed Fire Scenario Assessment by CFD Simulation: Pool Fire Under Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger in Modularized LNG Plant

Minoru Jimma, Hiroki Orihara & Masayuki Tanabe (JGC Corporation Oil & Gas Project Company, Japan)

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Paper 05 - Development of a Model for Spills of Liquids on Porous Surfaces (SLOPS)

Rachel Batt, Graham Tickle & Matt Turner

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Paper 06 - Safe Operation of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine and Gas Engine Systems Using Hydrogen Rich Fuels

Wayne Rattigan

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Paper 07 - An Investigation of LNG Permeability Within Perlite Insulation

Steven Betteridge (Shell Research, UK)

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Paper 08 - Calculating Yourself Into a Corner Using LOPA

Stephen Beedle (ABB Consulting, UK)

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Paper 09 - Comparison of a Single Initiating Event Versus a Multiple Initiating Event Approach to Layer of Protection Analysis

Colin Chambers

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Paper 10 - Driving Quality and Consistency in Barrier Management Through the Application of Best Practice Quality Rules and Corporate Standard Bow Ties in Developing Asset Specific Bow Ties

Mark Boult (DNV GL, UK), Daniel Rowe (SBM Offshore, Monaco), Paul McCulloch (CGE Risk Management Solutions, The Netherlands)

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Paper 11 - Deriving Spurious Trip Rate Formulae

Fan Ye (ESC, UK)

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Paper 12 - Islands of Excellence in Oceans of Mediocrity

Graeme Dick & Mike Pollard (Reflekt AS, Norway)

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Paper 13 - Resourcing Teams Based on Key Project Risks

Louise Whiting (Barberton Limited, UK)

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Paper 14 - How do you Carry Out a DSEAR Risk Assessment? Experiences from Two of ABB’s DSEAR/ATEX Experts

Alison McKay & Peter Hodgson (ABB, UK)

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Paper 15 - Hydraulic Mist Hazards – a Discussion of the Practical Implications for a Nuclear Project

Keith Johnson, Joseph Hayward & Timothy Boland (Sellafield Ltd, UK), Anthony Ennis (Haztech Consultants, UK)

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Paper 16 - Keeping Cool Under Threat of Fire – Managing the Risks of Flammable Refrigerants

D Colbourne (HEAT GmbH, Germany), Ivan Vince (ASK Consultants, UK)

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Paper 17 - Learning from Application of the CDOIF Environmental Risk Assessment Method to Major Accident Hazard Plant

Andrew Marsh-Patrick & Duncan Dodge (WSP, UK)

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Paper 18 - Potential for a Major Accident to the Environment in the Whisky Industry

Euan Munro (SLR Consulting, UK), Carly Newton (The North British Distillery Company, UK)

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Paper 19 - Are we Overlooking Something in the Context of Environmental Protection?

James Park, Robert Ritchie & Carolyn Nicholls (RAS, UK)

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Paper 20 - A Three-Decade Review of Risk Management Efforts in Hong Kong

Ying Yin Hung & Eddie Lee (Environmental Protection Department of HKSAR, Hong Kong)

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Paper 21 - How China is Establishing a New COMAH System

Pat Swords (PM Group, Ireland), Robert Liang (PM Group, China)

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Paper 23 - Selection and Deployment of Non-Destructive Testing for Through-Life Integrity Assurance of Composite-Repaired Pipes

Adam Bannister, Aneta Nemcova, David Johnson & Matthew Blackburn

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Paper 22 - Regulation of UK Nuclear Legacy Facilities

Anthony McFadden

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Paper 24 - Can Damage Mechanism Assessment Improve Both Efficiency and Safety

Brad Eccles (ABS Consulting, UK), Randal Montgomery, David Whittle & Sayed Termah (ABSC Consulting, USA)

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Paper 25 - Behaviour in Emergencies on COMAH sites: Challenging Predictive Assumptions About Likely Fatalities Based on Actual Behaviours in Emergencies

J Bell, S Raza & P Brockington

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Paper 26 - Industrial System for Mitigation of Vapour Cloud Explosions

Dirk Roosendans & Pol Hoorelbeke (Total, France)

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Paper 27 - Effect of Water Mist on the Dispersion of a Flammable Gas Inside Traffic Tunnels – an LPG Experimental Study

MC Olde, WPW Wieling, D Mores & J Heuvelink (TNO, The Netherlands), AJM Snel & BBG Lottman (Witteveen+Bos, The Netherlands)

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Paper 28 - Assessment and Enactment of Response to Severe Weather Hazards to Offshore Structures

Joe Quinn (Atkins, UK), Matt Keys (Atkins, Australia)

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Paper 29 - Wildfires – an Emerging Hazard for Industrial Installations in Europe?

Hannes Kern (IRIS – Industrial Risk and Safety Solutions, Austria), Katja Hüttenbrenner (Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria)

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Paper 30 - An Analytically Based Pressurised Pipeline Decompression Model

Jiahuan Yi & Haroun Mahgerefteh (University College London, UK)

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Paper 31 - Confusion over Risk Criteria

Carolyn Nicholls & Jordan Smith (RAS, UK)

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Paper 32 - On the 10-4/Yr Criterion for Blast Overpressure – an Alternative Comparative Approach for Safer Design

Steve Howell & Prankul Middha (Abercus, UK)

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Paper 33 - HSE Pilot Scale, Gassy System, Reactor Venting Experiments and Implications for Vent Sizing

John Hare

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Paper 34 - A Strategy for Chemotoxic Safety on a Nuclear Licensed Site

Timothy Bollard, Keith Johnson & Joanne Griffin (Sellafield Ltd, UK)

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Paper 35 - The Nuts and Bolts of Process Safety Management

Craig Anderson & Nick Procter (Wood, UK)

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Paper 36 - An Integrated Approach to Establishing the Hazards, Risks and Controls at a Major Copper Smelting Site in Southern Africa

Roderick Prior (SHExellence, South Africa)

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Paper 37 - How Stressed is your Facility?

Trish Kerin

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Paper 38 - Safe Staffing Levels: Latest Energy Institute Guidance

Michael Wright (Greenstreet Berman, UK), Stuart King (Energy Institute, UK)

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Paper 39 - Using a Sprint Approach to Analyse Offshore Maintenance Records

Chris Bell & Matthew Celnik (DNV GL, UK)

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Paper 40 - How Do We Define Good Practice for Fire and Gas Detector Mapping?

Tim Jones (RPS Group, UK)

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Paper 41 - Guidance on Fire, Combustible Gas and Toxic Gas Detection System Philosophy

Jonathan Wiseman (Risktec Solutions, UK)

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Paper 42 - BS60080:2020 – Guidance on the Placement of Permanently Installed Detection Devices Using Software Tools and Other Techniques. What is the Scope and Intention of the New Standard?

James McNay (Micropack (Engineering), UK)

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Paper 43 - A Revised Method for Dropped Object Risk Analysis

AG Rushton & JM White (ESR Technology, UK)

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Paper 44 - Learning from Creeping Changes

Zsuzsanna Gyenes

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Paper 45 - A Toolbox to Help Frontline Personnel Learn from Incidents

Stuart King (Energy Institute, UK)

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Paper 46 - Stories to Keep Us Safe – Five Decades of the Loss Prevention Bulletin

Fiona Macleod (Billions Europe, UK)

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Paper 47 - Taming the Beast – Lessons Learned from Four Decades of Aluminium Dust Explosions

S Gakhar & JM Butcher (DEKRA, UK), P Roberts (AMG Alpoco, UK)

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Paper 48 - Modelling Self-Heating Solids

Stephen Pearson (Syngenta, UK)

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Paper 49 - Effects of Melting Inert Particulate Additives on Ignition and Flame Propagation in Dust/Air Mixtures

Katja Hüttenbrenner, Marco Stockinger & Harald Raupenstrauch (Montanuniversitaet Leobe, Austria), Hannes Kern (IRIS – Industrial Risk and Safety Solutions, Austria)

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Paper 50 - Human Performance and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Roger Stokes (BakerRisk Europe, UK)

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Paper 51 - Making sure Investigators Get it Right – Human Factors Considerations for Investigations

James Bunn (The Keil Centre, UK)

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Paper 52 - Enhancing the Performance of Safety Critical Task Analysis: The Goldilocks Problem and Marginal Gains

Dominic Furniss, Jamie Henderson, Mark Sujan & David Embrey (Human Reliability Associates, UK)

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Paper 53 - Occupational Safety and Process Safety: Sisters, Cousins or Unrelated?

Matt Clay, Maria Garcia, Mike Wardman & Moray Kidd

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Paper 54 - Incorporating Inherently Safer Technology into a Corporate Risk Management Programme

Tony Downes, David Prior, Pascal Bolomey & Noel Misa (Honeywell (Performance Materials & Technologies), USA)

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Paper 55 - Liquefied Gas Terminals – Designed with Safety at Heart

Karina Almeida Leñero & Sarah Fiedler (TGE Gas Engineering, Germany), Richard Collitt & Yet Th Ng Lee (TGE Gas Engineering, UK)

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Paper 56 - Why Proactive Assessment of Hydrogen Fuelling Risks is Essential

Karen Vilas (BakerRisk, USA), Robert Magraw (BakerRisk Europe, UK)

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Paper 57 - Explosion Relief Panels for Hazard Reduction in Gas Compressor Buildings and Hydrogen Refuelling Stations

Robert Brewerton & Christopher Norris (UK)

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Paper 58 - Safe Reinstatement of Process Plant – Learnings from HSE’s Regulation of the UK Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Ashley Hynds & Scott Templeton

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Paper 59 - Improving the Value of Risk Engineering in Onshore Energy Insurance

Nigel Cairns (Aon Global Risk Consulting, UK)

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Paper 60 - The Importance of Process Safety Management in Post-Merger Integration

Glenn Pettitt, Guy Roberts, Rob Jeffries, Doug Anderson & Richard Rowe (ERM, UK)

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Paper 61 - The Chernobyl Incident: A Case Study for Organisational Process Safety

John Butcher (DEKRA, UK), Arturo Trujillo (DEKRA, Spain)

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Paper 62 - Brain-Centred Performance: the Final Frontier in Workplace Safety

Sebastian Blair (DEKRA, UK)

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