Process Safety and Loss Management

This symposium, the thirteenth in a series now organized by the process safety management division of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), features three distinct events :

  • a special international symposium on the frequency component in the assessment of major accident hazards
  • a general process safety symposium
  • an introductory workshop for new and recent graduates from chemical engineering and related disciplines on the fundamentals of workplace safety and hazard control

Scope

This topical conference is dedicated to process safety & loss management. The proposed topics are :

Special international symposium on the frequency component in the assessment of major accident hazards (download )

  • Brief review of how frequency values currently in use were originally derived
  • What has been learned since those values were established
  • Whether the values continue to represent realistic estimates of frequency or whether they should be revised to incorporate more recent knowledge and, if so :
    • To get some sense of how much the values should be changed
    • To understand the implications of those changes
    • To agree on a general process for establishing consensus on any revised values
    • To agree on how to manage the introduction of any new values to the risk assessment community

Safety in Chemical Engineering Education Program (SACHE) (download )

  • OECD Workshop on Sharing Experience in the Training of Engineers in Risk Management
  • U.S. AICHE/CCPS SAChE: Concept, Instructional Materials, Application and Usage
  • Other regional safety programs
  • Safety programs for student competitions, including AICHE ChemE program
  • Professor Training:
    • U.S. SACHE Faculty Workshops
    • Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers Summer Institute
    • Other programs
  • Student Certificate programs
  • Development of partnerships
  • Development of instructional materials
  • New ways to include safety content in the undergraduate curriculum

General process safety symposium (download )

  • Changing the Paradigm in Process Safety Management : Risk Based Process Safety, Culture, and Senior Management Review
  • Application of Safety Instrumented Systems
  • Inherently Safer Processes
  • Expert-Based Systems to Manage Chemical Reactivity Hazards
  • Case Histories and Lessons Learned

Introductory workshop for new and recent graduates

  • How safety and health are managed in the workplace
  • Fundamentals of process safety management and control of major hazards
  • Overview of regulatory requirements and support and how they are applied
  • Non-regulatory support – key standards, codes of practice, etc
  • How to access further guidance and support

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. However, we encourage the submission of the full articles to Process Safety Progress, the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering or Canadian Chemical News.

Organizers

Graham Creedy, P. Eng.
Secretary, Process Safety Management Division
Chemical Institute of Canada/Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and
Consultant, Senior Manager, Responsible Care®
Canadian Chemical Producers'Association,
350 Sparks St, Suite 805, Ottawa, ON K1R 7S8, Canada
gcreedy@ccpa.ca

Jean-Paul Lacoursière, P.E.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department,
University of Sherbrooke
35, rue Lemoyne, Repentigny, QC, Canada J6A 3L4
jpla@sympatico.ca

Daniel A. Crowl
Michigan Technological University
Department of Chemical Engineering
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Tel (906) 487-3221
Fax (906) 487-3221
crowl@mtu.edu