Conference Day One: 23rd September 2009

08:30 Registration And Coffee

09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Stephen O’Neill
Head of Health and Safety
ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS

09:15 Create A Fully Integrated Safety System By Breaking The Silos Between Occupational, Behavioural And Process Safety

  • Achieve an efficient HSE system by effectively linking the issues of personal safety, plant and equipment safety
  • Optimise your working practices by implementing integrated process techniques to break down departmental barriers

Martin Carter
Head of Engineering Governance
E.ON UK

10:00 Improve Employee Vigilance By Embedding Process Safety Culture In Your Organisation

  • Achieve successful implementation of processes and procedures through acceptance at all levels of your organisation
  • Reduce employee oversights by combating the ‘tick the box’ culture
  • Achieve full incorporation of process safety ideals by implementing the strategies employed regarding occupational safety across various sectors

Lee Allford
Operations Director
EUROPEAN PROCESS SAFETY CENTRE

10:45 Morning Coffee And Networking Break

11:15 Learn From The Advances In Other Sectors: The Offshore Oil And Gas Industry

  • Effectively monitor your progress towards a wholly safe system through the implementation of performance indicators
  • Speed up your analysis by quantifying your risks and monitoring systems centrally
  • Hear practical examples of leading and lagging metrics that will help you to implement performance indicators effectively in your company

Mark McGowan
Head of HSE
CENTRICA HRL

12:00 No Excuses, Nowhere To Hide In Our Failure To Learn

  • Over the past 20 years structured processes for creating justified maintenance have evolved successfully.
  • Reason ( Psychologist) has written of the predictability of maintenance error and how errors align to cause incidents and accidents
  • Hopkins (Sociologist) has analysed Longford and Texas City producing models showing the cause and effect relationships between Organisational and Management systems and major fatal incidents.
  • Nuclear Industries and NII have produced The Safety Performance Indicators framework that includes Sustained Operational Excellence as one of three attributes for safety performance.

And yet we haven’t absorbed and learned from all this. Companies have still cut all the same expenditures and processes as they did in earlier recessions laying down the foundations for more Texas Cities, Buncefield’s, Grayrigg’s!! There is nowhere to hide now. We must learn.

Jane Goodacre
Managing Director
OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY CONSORTIUM

12:45 Networking Lunch

13:45 Mitigate Major Hazards At Your Facilities By Proactively Identifying Risks

  • Explore the most effective methods of hazard identification.
  • Implement the hazard identification process at each stage of your process safety system
  • Benefit from worked examples of application in continual processes to provide you with the tools to implement the methods into your systems

Speaker to be confirmed

14:30 Moving Towards Interdependence – How ESB Networks Are Changing The Culture Of 'Looking After Ones Self' To 'Looking Out For Each Other'

  • Lower your incident rate by rising to the ESB zero injury workplace challenge
  • Ensure that risks inherent in your plant are counteracted by exploring the role of observation auditing
  • Improve your review of safety incidents with the inclusion of personnel testimonials

Ronan Collier
Corporate Safety
Health and Wellbeing Coordinator ESB IRELAND

15:15 Afternoon Tea And Networking Break

15:45 Establish A Workable Maintenance Plan Through A Scheme Of Prioritisation Of Improvements

  • Establish a cost effective and efficient strategy for tackling the ever increasing maintenance issues in an ageing plant
  • Guarantee the safety of your personnel by ensuring safety critical tasks are not overlooked
  • Approach your backlog methodically and prioritise by assessing the business and safety criticality of each maintenance requirement

David Dyson
Engineering Manager
TILBURY POWER STATION - RWE NPOWER

16:30 Learn From Advances In Other Sectors: National Grid

  • Reinvigorating National Grid's Process Safety culture
  • Establishing Process Safety Key Performance Indicators across different lines of business both within the UK and US
  • Developing: management leadership; sharing and learning on Process Safety both internally and externally

Neil Jackson
Policy Development Manager – Gas Distribution
NATIONAL GRID

17:15 Achieve Sustainable Performance And Human Integrity By Establishing The Root Cause Of Failures

  • Improve system effectiveness and project success by establishing an effective human factors input
  • Address all possible risks emerging from plant and process design with a focus on technical, organisational and human factors
  • Ensure time spent on addressing human factors is not wasted by concentrating on the most important parts of your process

Tim Southam
Director
PROGRESS THROUGH PEOPLE

18:00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks

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