TOPICS & FORMAT

The technical program (plenary papers, full and short oral papers, posters, etc.) will be structured into 4 parallel sessions.
The preliminary time table includes registration and welcome on  Sunday, and from Monday to Wednesday, paper presentations.

THEME 1 – RISK MANAGEMENT AND REGULATORY ISSUES

• Hazard identification
• Risk assessment and evaluation
• Consequence modelling
• Siting and land-use planning
• Regulatory issues (REACH, ATEX, SEVESO, GHS, PED etc.)
     Technical issues
     Impact on Small Medium Enterprises
      Regulation in developing countries

• Transport risks
• Security risks
• Impact of natural hazards
• Novel assessment methods
• Risk communication
• Crisis management and emergency preparedness

THEME 2 – HUMAN FACTOR AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• Human factors in the control of major hazards
• Ergonomics, including the design and manning of control rooms
• Competence and capability
• Safety culture
• Process safety performance (indicators and metrics)
• Process safety education and training
• Organisational change
• Outsourcing and subcontracted activities
• Health, safety, environment and security management systems
• Contract manufacture
• Asset integrity

THEME 3 – LEARNING FROM ACCIDENT AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• Lessons learned from accidents
• Identification of root causes
• Implementation of lessons learned
• Knowledge transfer
• Teaching methods and tools
• Experience from other industries
• Communication and education

THEME 4 – PROCESS SAFETY ENGINEERING

• Safety critical systems
• Sustainability
• Inherent safety
• Designing for safety
• Fire and explosion mitigation
• Plant layout and domino effects
• Biotechnology
• Laboratory and pilot scale plants
• Nuclear energy safety
• Resilience engineering
• Emerging technologies

THEME 5 – MATERIAL HAZARDS

• Hazards from novel or emerging technologies
• Material hazardous properties
• Hazards of nano-materials
• Chemical reaction classification (REACH, GHS)
• Predicting hazardous properties (computation, QSPR)