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Events
Advances in Risk and Reliability Technology Symposium
21/05/2013 - 23/05/2013
The 20th AR2TS will be an international forum for presenting and discussing recent advances made in the general area of reliability, risk, availability and maintainability. It is to be held at Loughborough University, UK.
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5th iNTeg-Risk Conference 2013
21/05/2013 - 23/05/2013
The conference will be an opportunity to learn about the iNTeg-Risk project and the European Emerging Risk Radar (E2R2) Initiative. It will be held in Stuttgart.
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Human Factors in Health and Safety Module 4
22/05/2013 - 23/05/2013
This event is module 4 of a one year course on human factors in process safety.
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FABIG - Management of Ageing Facilities: Best Practice
04/06/2013 - 05/06/2013
A technical meeting is to be held by FABIG in London and via webcast on the 4th of June, 2013, to be repeated in Aberdeen, Uk on the 5th.
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Source Term Characterization of the Consequences of Storage Tank Aggressions
04/06/2013 - 06/06/2013
From the 4th to the 6th of June, a Lecture Series will be held at the von Karman Institute in Belgium, organized jointly with the CEA France, and NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO).
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News
22/05/2013
An updated edition of The Energy Institute Model Code of Safe Practice book fire precaution for hydrocarbon storage is available, taking into account approaches and regulatory requirements introduced since the Buncefield depot incident.
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20/05/2013
The European Federation of Chemical Engineering presented their award for process safety at the 14th Loss Prevention Symposium this month, and chose to recognise a doctor of energetic nuclear engineering for her work on reactions between sodium and water.
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17/05/2013
EPSC attended the 14th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, held in Florence this year, to promote recent work on competence management systems.
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15/05/2013
EPSC has published a new pamphlet titled Making the Case for Process Safety Competence. The pamphlet promotes the work of the Process Safety Competence working group on skills management for potentially hazardous facilities.
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13/05/2013
The EPSC Annual Report for 2012 can now be viewed online or downloaded as PDF
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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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