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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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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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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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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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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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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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EU Competent Authorities Meet On Land Use Planning For Chlorine and LPG Storage
01/07/2010In Ispra in June, competent authorities from European countries met to share and confirm risk scenarios and associated risk frequencies for the storage of liquefied petroleum gas and chlorine. Also shared was information on case studies of land use planning decisions near establishments storing LPG or chlorine.
Although there were significant differences in the approaches used by authorities in these countries to reach a decision, it was clear that the resulting hazard region distances and permissions criteria for proposed developments were similar for cases involving stored LPG. For regions involving stores of chlorine there were some real differences on decisions about developments.
EPSC Technical Director Richard Gowland had many observations on the case study reports:
- Authorities in France have moved more towards QRA methods since the Toulouse explosion. INERIS does most of the work. They take all their inputs from the Safety Report. (unlike in the UK where the Safety report is based on more ALARP issues and may take a different range of scenarios). They do have a concept where properties may be requisitioned when in the inner zone and potentially the industrial operator may have to stop the operation (or add protection). This is a real concern because it means that a development of houses or something else which is not under the control of industry could cause it severe economic damage.
- UK CAs use QuickFN methodology to come up with the most dominant scenarios. Some of their models are being updated (e.g. RISKAT). Land Use advice to local authorities is based on separate studies from those required for Safety Reports. Decision radii is based on Individual risk. Surprisingly, they include the possibility of BLEVE even for mounded or buried LPG tanks. They do this because in many cases the quantity of hazardous material is large and they want to make sure that the worst case is considered. When the societal risk was considered there were problems where the result drifted above the tolerability limit for both chlorine and LPG.
- Italy does not take catastrophic failures as non credible for LUP. This is unusual (anything <=1E06 I examined, but it is not specifically stated – just agreed practice). This relies on safety barriers unlike the evaluations of most other competent authorities. They publish reference scenarios. Much is organised by ‘decree’ from the ministry.
- Wallonia: In both LPA and chlorine studies, the centre circle (no development) was very small compared with the other radii. However, the radius at which sensitive developments are allowed is similar to other states.