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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4th International Conference on Safety and Environment in Process Safety (CISAP4)

14/03/2010 - 17/03/2010

An additional aim is to create a permanent biennial forum on HSE topics as well as industrial sustainability and, therefore, to help the process industries to find out the best balance between the expected growth of the enterprise value and the safeguard of the health of employees and population, the safety of operations, the environmental protection.

CISAP-4 will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange key information and hold helpful discussions and will focus on the present leading HSE legislation, forecast evolution, technical experiences and management approaches.

The Conference topics will mainly deal with the following aspects:

• HSE MANAGEMENT
- Management Systems
- Systems integration
- Decision making processes and tools
- Performance indicators
- Emergency planning and emergency exposure
- Learning from accidents

• PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
- Sustainable technologies
- Corporate social and environmental responsibilities
- Cleaner production
- Process integration
- Inherently safer process solutions

• RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
- Assessment and evaluation of hazard and risk
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Accidental releases modelling
- Process safety
- Environmental risks
- Human error
- Lessons learned

• IMPACT OF LEGISLATION
- Seveso Directive: applications and experiences
- New approach of the European Directives (PED, ATEX, etc.)
- Risk assessment in heavily industrialized areas
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Integrated Pollution Prevention Control
- Occupational Health and Safety

The Conference technical program is structured in two parallel sessions, which will be held over three days.The Conference topics will be treated in invited plenary lectures, selected oral presentations and poster sessions.Posters will stay on for the whole Conference promoting author presentation and spontaneous discussion.

PROCEEDINGS
The full set of accepted papers of CISAP-4 Conference (in the form of short papers of 6 pages) will be published into " Chemical Engineering Transactions". The Volume is identified by proper ISBN and ISSN and by a DOI number for each paper. Each Volume is printed both in hard copy and in a CD rom. Each Paper in the volume is covered by a copyright assigned to AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. Each Paper is evaluated for acceptance by at least two Peer Reviewers. Usually the name list of the Reviewers is published before the book publication.

VENUE
"CISAP-4” will be held at Palazzo degli Affari, Piazza Adua 1, 50123 Firenze, Italy.
The exhibition and congress facilities of Firenze Fiera spa are among the most important and best equipped in Italy and it is located in the historical center of Florence.
For more details www.aidic.it/CISAP4/