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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CSB Receives EPSC Award 2010 for Safety Videos

12/05/2010
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has received the EPSC Award 2010 for its CSB Safety Video series. The award is given to acknowledge progress toward a less-hazardous Europe and is made to an individual or team which has considerably advanced the theory or practice of process safety.

CSB Chairman John Bresland said, “The CSB is pleased and honored to be the recipient of this coveted award in recognition of our Safety Video program. We are proud of the videos and the fact that they are used to promote chemical process safety around the world. We are doubly honoured to know we are the first organisation in the United States to receive the EPSC award.”

CSB Safety Videos are sophisticated, fast-moving and in-depth examinations of major chemical accidents investigated by the CSB. They feature computer animations that depict the chain of events leading to explosions, fires, leaks, tragic loss of life and serious injury. They typically include commentary by CSB investigators, board members, outside experts, accident victims and eyewitnesses, threaded into dramatic and compelling narratives.

Dr. Daniel Horowitz, CSB Director of Congressional, Public and Board Affairs, who oversees the production of the videos, said, “The EPSC Award is an exciting acknowledgement of our work in producing 17 safety videos since our first effort in 2005. We have distributed over 100,000 DVD sets of our videos around the world, and they have been viewed millions of times online. We have received thousands of messages praising the videos – from labour leaders, workers, safety training managers, company executives, trade associations, and other stakeholders across many industries. It is extremely rewarding to be cited by an organisation representing all the major chemical process players in Europe, who state the videos are helping to advance the practice of process safety.” Dr. Horowitz will accept the award during a presentation in Bruges, Belgium, in June of this year.

Last year’s winner of the EPSC Award was Francis Stoessel of the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety and Security, for his work on the development of the criticality scale for chemical batch and semi-batch reactions. In 2008, the award was presented to Professor Andrew Hopkins of Australian National University for his writing on “learning from accidents” and particularly his published review of the BP Texas City Refinery accident of 2005, “Failure to Learn, the BP Texas City Refinery Disaster.” Dr. Hopkins appeared in the CSB safety video, “Anatomy of a Disaster,” which detailed the causes of the tragedy.

Complete information on the background of the award and past winners is to be found on the EPSC website here: Awards Pages