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Richard Gowland to Chair Session at Industrial Technologies 2010 Conference
02/09/2010
EPSC Technical Director, Richard Gowland, is to chair a session on integrating safety into emerging technologies at the development stage, to take part on 7th September at Industrial Technologies 2010.
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2006-2008 Seveso 2 Implementation Report Made Available
23/08/2010
A summary of EU Member State reports of Seveso data covering the period 2006 to 2008 has been made available by the European Commission.
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CFPB To Hold Workshop On Land Use Planning For LPG
11/08/2010
The Comité Français du Propane et Butane (CFPB) is to hold a one day workshop next month in Paris on Industrial Safety and Land-use Planning around LPG establishments.
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EPSC Strategic Review on Process Safety Competence
11/08/2010
EPSC has initiated a strategic review on process safety competence which it expects to publish mid 2011, for which it is requesting input.
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Stuxnet Worm Webinar - Details of Process Control Malware
11/08/2010
IndustrialDefender hold a series of webinars on Stuxnet, the first malware found to deliberately target industrial process control software.
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Objectives

The objective of EPSC is to promote best practice in process safety across Europe in the both prevention and mitigation of chemical accident hazards.The objectives are addressed in four areas:

Information

EPSC organises member meetings across Europe in order to plan and implement work on topics which are of most value to members. These can result in a tangible output such as information sheets, internal reports, publications and international conferences.

Many of the internal reports are a practical review of member approaches to a particular topic and provide in a qualitative sense a benchmark against which companies can assess their own standing. It is also pertinent to note that the nature of the titles since 1992 has changed from predominantly technical in the early years to mainly managerial towards the latter - a trend that was signalled in 1995 by the landmark publication of Safety Management Systems.

EPSC has also been active in identifying relevant non-English process safety titles and converting these for a wider audience into English. Atmospheric Dispersion published in 1999 originally started life in French and SHE Management Systems for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises published in 2000 was a Swedish text.

Research and development

EPSC has acted as coordinator in an EU funded network, PRISM, on the topic of human factors In addition EPSC has participated in ARAMIS, a RTD project on Accidental Risk Methodologies for Industries and S2S (Safety to Safety Network).

Legislation and regulations

EPSC has played a supporting role to the European Commission in their drafting of legislation which has a relevance to and impact on process safety management. One notable example is the Seveso II directive where EPSC contributed to the Working Guidance documents produced by the Commission. EPSC also participates in the current round of mutual joint visits by authorities around Europe in order to best understand the issues and differences which are raised by Seveso II at a state level.

Know how exchange

EPSC provides a platform for development of process safety knowledge for its members and to act as a focal point for dissemination of that knowledge to the European process safety community. Involvement in the Centre's groups gives organisations and individuals the opportunity to meet safety professionals from other companies, to discuss areas of common interest and to share knowledge and experience, thus enabling informed comparisons of safety management systems and practice.