SIESO Medal

The SIESO Medal is a competition that seeks to raise awareness of process safety among science, business, and engineering students.

It is awarded annually to an individual or team of students (up to a maximum of six members) for the best presentation of a major accident and the learning outcomes.

Entries should be in two parts:

1. a description of the accident in the style of a Loss Prevention Bulletin paper (typical structure: introduction; description of the event; investigation and findings; lessons learned; conclusion; references)
2. a novel method of communicating the lessons from the incident described in the paper (for example, this could be a graphic, animation, video, podcast, artwork, or anything else – we’ve even had a piece of music!).

Winners of previous competitions have included:

• • a web-based interactive training tool on the Deepwater Horizon disaster
  • a pop-up book depicting the Texas City refinery explosion
  • a triptych artwork panels illustrating the Flixborough disaster
  • two-sided poster portraying the causes and lessons learned of the Bhopal disaster.

Students from anywhere in the world, including under or postgraduate; full or part-time; in chemical engineering or other subjects, are eligible to enter this competition.

Prize money is £750, free entry to the Hazards Process Safety Conference (where the winner will be presented with their award) plus an allowance of up to £250 towards travel expenses to Hazards.

In addition, all entries that the judges consider to be of a satisfactory standard will be considered for publication in Loss Prevention Bulletin.

The competition is judged along the following criteria:

1. accuracy
2. quality and appeal
3. engagement and impact
4. novelty and inventiveness
5. suitability for publishing on the LPB website, use of LBP/other process safety reference material
6. teamwork (cross-discipline teams encouraged).

How to enter

To enter, download the entry form and complete the information requested to be sent along with the original material, paying attention to the criteria the medal will be judged against and previous winning entries.

Please return the completed form to medals@icheme.org by 31 October.