Call for papers

Abstract deadline extended until 9 July 2010

IChemE’s ‘Hazards’ symposium continues to provide an important forum to debate the latest developments in process safety and environmental protection. First staged in 1960, and now set to convene for the twenty second time, Hazards offers the ideal stage for international experts and process safety practitioners to present and discuss the latest developments in safety and environmental management.

Contributions suitable for oral presentation or in poster format are invited under the following broad topic headings:

• New developments and the latest research findings (including ‘work in progress’) in process safety and environmental protection
• Best practice in process safety leadership and safety and environmental management systems
• Inherently safer design
• Engineering for resilience and sustainable process operation
• Improvements in safety performance measurement and reporting, corporate safety knowledge retention, and the development and management of a learning culture
• Effective risk and consequence assessment for major hazards and project design evaluation
• Securing plant integrity and the safer management of ageing assets
• Managing reactive chemical hazards
• Human factors in process safety including considerations of contract labour, staff competency and retention, and the challenges of globalised operations
• Aspects of hygiene such as COSHH, bio containment and genotoxic intermediates (hard piped systems and building facilities)
• Safety and environmental management within SMEs
• Public awareness and perceptions of safety
• Regulatory compliance in practice

In addition, accident case studies and investigation reports from recent process safety incidents will be welcomed for inclusion in the programme.

The technical committee particularly welcomes papers that examine the application of established best practice in process safety in new and emerging technologies, including: new nuclear build and decommissioning, Hydrogen and LNG installations, biofuels manufacture, carbon dioxide capture, transportation and storage, renewables, nanotechnology and nano-materials, biological agents, micro reactors and new control systems.

Papers addressing the particular challenges associated with the safer management of extended supply chains and multinational operations will also be favourably received.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words can be submitted via email to the Hazards XXII, Technical Programme Manager, Mike Adams before the 9 July 2010.