Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries

This book contains the Proceedings of the 10th International Syposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the process industries. The main topics of the conference include; optimisation of operations within the framework of safety, health and environment; safety, health, environment management and performance indicators; risk management experience; safety, health and environment in design and modification of processes and plants; hazardous substance/materials properties; storage and transport of dangerous goods by road, rail, water and pipeline; the prevention, protection and mitigation, and modelling of accidental releases; topics of safety and environment in specific process industries; the impact of legislation and industry initiatives; development of methodology, e.g. of risk assessment.

For scientists, researchers and industrialists in the field of the prevention of loss and promotion of safety in process industries.

Selected Contents.

Topic 1: Optimisation of operations within the framework of safety, health and enviroment. The use of risk based methods for inspection planning in different industrial sectors; nuclear, offshore and process industry. Comparison and discussion (S. Angelsen, B. Brickstad).

Topic 2: Safety, health, enviroment management and performance indicators. Safety performance indicators for chemical accidents prevention, preparedness and response: the canadian stakeholders view (E. Clément, J.-P. Lacoursiére).

Topic 3: Risk management experience. Lessons from the Longford gas explosion and fire (R. Hutchinson et al.).

Topic 4: Safety, health and enviroment in design and modification of processes and plants. Safety of ethoxylation reactions (J.-L. Gustin).

Topic 5: Hazardous substance/materials properties. A study into the explosive potential of thermally stratified liquid-liquid systems that result from runaway reactions (R.J.A. Kersten et al.).

Topic 6: Storage and transport of dangerous goods by road, rail, water and pipeline. Fracture statistics and offshore gas transport black sea and the Indian ocean (V. Polyakov, I. Kurakin).

Topic 7: The prevention, protection and mitigation and modelling of accidental releases. Loss of containment: experimental aerosol rain-out assessment (J.-P. Bigot et al.).

Topic 8: Safety and enviroment in specific process industries. Sources and solutions of fire and explosion in semiconductor fabricator (J.-R. Chen).

Topic 9: The impact of legislation and industry initiatives. Strategies for industrial risk prevention and management in the European union: the major accident hazards bureau and the Seveso II directive (J.S. Duffield).

Topic 10: Development of methodology, e.g. of risk assessment. The 'purple book': guideline for quantitative risk assessment in the Netherlands (P.A.M. Uijt de Haag et al.).