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Events
International Conference on Process Safety Performance Indicators
31/01/2012 - 01/02/2012
The International Conference on Process Safety Performance Indicators is to be held in Brussels at the Sheraton Hotel on 31st January and 1st February 2012.
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Safety: What Your Boss Should Know - Online Presentation
15/02/2012 - 15/02/2012
A one-hour online presentation to be held from 08:30 to 09:30 GMT on the subject of strategic decisions affecting safety and the responsibilities of management, with practical strategies on getting the message across to senior management. Free and open access.
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Accident Consequence Modelling in the Process Industries
21/02/2012 - 21/02/2012
A one day event on recent developments inconsequence modelling is to take place in Manchester, UK
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Process Safety Indicators Working Group Meeting
02/03/2012 - 02/03/2012
The next meeting of the PSI group is to be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Schiphol.
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Ageing Plant and Asset Management Seminar
21/03/2012 - 21/03/2012
The Chemical Industries Association is to hold a seminar on asset integrity management system in Grangemouth, Scotland
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News
23/01/2012
Siemens has announced work to fix security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems following disclosure by security researchers last year. Meanwhile at the S4 security conference, a team of researchers have described multiple vulnerabilities in products by other vendors.
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13/01/2012
The Expert Commission for Safety in the Swiss Chemical Industry (ESCIS) has a revised DVD tutorial package on thermal safety for process industries.
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06/01/2012
The investigation panel for the Fukushima incident have released an interim report identifying major failings in communication during mitigation efforts and confused response by authorities.
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25/11/2011
CHEManager have an article on the natural hazard planning requirements of the Seveso directive, and the assessment of risk from climate change.
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21/11/2011
EU-OSHA has published a magazine on safe maintenance as part of the current healthy workplaces campaign.
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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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