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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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EPSC Presents Clarifications on IEC61511 to TWG2
05/07/2010At a Technical Working Group 2 meeting, at the request of the Joint Research Centre, EPCS Technical Director Richard Gowland made a pair of presentations on IEC 61511 and Safety Instrumented Systems.
The competent authorities of Europe take interest in IEC 61511 as it is recognise as good practice. There were several points of particular interest raised in the presentation clarifying the implementation of the standard:
- Clause 8.2.2 is often overlooked by industry when low failure frequencies are claimed for Basic Process Control Systems
- The BPCS is allowed as a layer of protection, but only if it can be proved independent of initiating events and of other layers of protection, often difficult.
- Clause 9.4.2 is misleading where it states that the risk reduction from a BPCS function shall be less than 10 (it actually means shall not be more than 10)
- Example failure frequencies and PFDs in the standards (pats1,2,3) cannot be ‘assumed’. You need records to show proven is use performance.
- Human factors are often included (initiators and/or response) and need proper evaluation (instead of unjustifiable performance such as ‘SIL2’)