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Events
19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA 2010 & the 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering ECCE-7
29/08/2010 - 02/09/2010
19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA 2010 and the 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering ECCE-7 will be held jointly in Prague
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ESREL 2010 Conference
05/09/2010 - 09/09/2010
The annual European Safety and Reliability (ESREL) conference will take place at the Rodos Place Resort Hotel in Rhodes, Greece on 5 - 9 September 2010
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FABIG Technical meeting: Modern Structural and Process Design against Explosions
15/09/2010 - 15/09/2010
Technical meeting to be held at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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FABIG Technical meeting: Modern Structural and Process Design against Explosions
16/09/2010 - 16/09/2010
Technical meeting to be held at Broadway House, Tothill Street, SW1H 9NQ, London, UK
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Human Factors in Health and Safety - a professional development programme for the chemical and process industries
22/09/2010 - 23/09/2010
The Keil Centre and IChemE have organised this 12 month development programme which will take place on 22 and 23 September 2010 in Amsterdam.
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News
22/07/2010
A French national plan on safety of ageing equipment has been raised for discussion at a meeting of Technical Working Group 2 in Brighton, raising questions on the treatment of ageing equipment.
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22/07/2010
A subject of note at the mutual joint visit meetings at Ispra and associated workshops was the role of safety culture on process safety performance. A greater interest in ability to demonstrate a good process safety culture has been raised in recent years as it has been cited in major accident investigations.
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07/07/2010
A large commercial and residential development planned for construction near a natural gas storage facility is to be refused planning permission following local authority consultation with the UK HSE.
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05/07/2010
The Mutual Joint Visit in Fulda on 27th to 29th October is to have a theme of Safety Management Systems (SMS) presentations.
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05/07/2010
At a Technical Working Group 2 meeting, at the request of the Joint Research Centre, EPCS Technical Director Richard Gowland made a pair of presentations on IEC 61511 and Safety Instrumented Systems.
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EPSC - European Process Safety Centre
EPSC - the European Process Safety Centre - is an international industry-funded organisation which provides an independent technical focus for process safety in Europe.
EPSC's activities are sponsored by chemical manufacturing companies and related businesses with a keen interest in chemical process safety.
EPSC's members secure the following benefits for themselves and the wider European chemical industry:
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sharing and dissemination of information and experience on safety technology and accident prevention
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technical input to legislators and standard makers to ensure more realistic legislation
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improved co-ordination of safety standards across Europe
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identification of emerging safety-related issues or gaps in knowledge where guidelines or reports could be produced or commissioned.
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improved co-ordination of safety R&D and handling of complex technical research programmes
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stimulation of R&D where there are gaps in knowledge
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transfer of knowledge from elesewhere to Europe and between European countries
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access to information from a single source
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