Description
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This is hosted by Process Industries Division and promoted across the Centres in the North West and Yorkshire Regions and, the Aberdeen Area, all part of the Process Industries Community.
Process industries include many manufacturing and utilities sectors: food, beverages, drugs, chemicals, fuels, water, plastics and more. The concepts of process safety management – the prevention of catastrophic incidents – that have been developed successfully in higher hazard parts of these sectors are vital in maintaining safe, reliable operations and should be considered by engineers working in these and other quite different sectors for their benefits.
Organisations that manage high-hazard processes become skilled at defining clearly ’what has to go right’ to competent people, checking and measuring whether that is so, understanding the reasons when it has not been so, having engaged managers and leaders, and recognising and carefully managing changes. Starting with a retrospective of 50 years of catastrophic incidents in 2021 we have run a series of short webinars covering each of these aspects under the headline of ‘steal with pride’.
This online seminar will include information, break-out discussions and ideas-sharing for you to apply in your work. It will reflect on the series of webinars since 2021 that have covered the concepts of process safety management and why they are important to mechanical engineers. It will also cover the importance of helping humans to be reliable in safety-critical critical tasks, professional engineering ethics and the need to speak up, and how the series’ legacy could be best used by future engineers.
Engineers from different disciplines and backgrounds will facilitate the sessions bringing their own career experiences.
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09:45
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Registration
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10:00
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Opening remarks and introduction
ChairRichard Roff
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10.10
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Summary of previous Steal with Pride topics- Learning organisations; focus on barriers to loss of control; leadership interest, change control;
Into to the session
Richard Roff
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10:40
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Human and Organisational Reliability”?
Stuart King and Richard Hellebrand will then discuss “Human and Organisational Reliability”. In particular, the use of Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) as a Human risk assessment tool to complement the more traditional Process Hazard Analyses techniques, which are mainly focused on engineering designs.
Stuart King, Richard Hellebrand
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11.20
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Break
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11.30
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Engineering Ethics of Decisions and Safety
Breakout sessions with 3 separate case studies
using video examples to discuss Engineering Ethics related to safety, in particular as these apply to engineers who propose layers of protection … which are sometimes downgraded or delayed to the point that necessary safety barriers are not implemented.
20 minute per session.
Facilitated by Pamela Robinson, Tim Jones, Stephen Soleye
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12.30
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Plenary discussion
Summarise case study (session 2) and discuss what legacy information people would be interested in having. Also discuss what audience would appreciate (format, content, style) for any future discussions on process safety facilitated by IMechE.
Canvass for volunteers to help, to continue…
Richard Roff and Stephen Soleye
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12.50
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Final summary, and reflections
Richard Roff
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13.00
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End of seminar
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The IMechE has delivered a series of webinars on Process Safety, many of which have been uploaded to YouTube:
•Catastrophe! A 50 year retrospective of catastrophic events and the lessons engineers can learn May 2021
•Steal with Pride! Learn from the Mistakes and Catastrophes of Others July 2021
•Leadership in process safety – learn the lessons before you suffer your own loss… Nov 2021
•Critical Thinking for Process Safety: How do you Know Your Barriers are Working? March 2022
•Leadership in Process Safety: Learn the Lessons Before You Suffer Your Own Loss April 2022
•Finding the Causes of Process Safety Incidents – Getting beyond what went wrong to why? May 2022
•Performance Reporting and Analysis: Making Sure Leaders Know Whether Things are Going Right Sept 2022
•Change Management: Making Sure Changes Don’t Lead to Catastrophe! April 2023
Click here to see all upcoming IMechE Process Industries local events NearYou or visit www.imeche.org/industry-sectors/process