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
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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03/05/2013
EPSC is seeking nominations from individuals in their early to mid careers who are seen to be making a difference to the development and promotion of process safety thinking and application within their own teams and workplaces. Self nominations are welcome.
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Objectives
The objective of EPSC is to promote best practice in process safety across Europe in 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.