Workshops

  • Workshop A: Ensuring PSM Success
  • Workshop B: Evaluating and nurturing culture
  • Workshop C: Alarm Management - A key element of Process Safety Management?
  • Workshop D: Implementing Behavior Based Safety Process Management - BAPCO’s experience
  • Workshop E: Discussing critical issues in Process Safety: A CCPS - Middle East model steering committee meeting

Pre-Conference Workshops: Sunday 15th November 2009

09:00 - 12:00 Workshop A: Ensuring PSM Success

This workshop will discuss the basics of PSM, introduce ways PSM implementation has failed and update you on the global status of PSM activities. Lessons learned from major facility accidents will be shared, including BP Texas City, Longford and Buncefield.

At this workshop you will:

  • Learn how to use Risk Based Process Safety to improve PSM Effectiveness
  • Get an overview of RBPS elements and best practices at refineries
  • Discover how to improve PSM effectiveness, correct deficient PSM system elements and design new PSM elements
  • Identify how to monitor PSM effectiveness – Lagging/leading indicators, audits and incidents
Steve Arendt
Vice President Process Industries
ABS Consulting
François Coblentz
Senior Risk Consultant
ABS Consulting

13:00 - 16:00 Workshop B: Evaluating and nurturing culture

At this workshop you will get an overview of Process Safety and HSE Culture, including definitions, examples of culture/organizational accidents and frameworks for understanding culture.

At this workshop you will:

  • Discover sources of Process Safety/HSE culture information, including surveys, interviews, work observations and selected leading indicators
  • Learn about ways of evaluating Process Safety/HSE culture
  • Understand lessons learned from Process Safety/HSE culture evaluations
  • Determine how to improve an organization’s Process Safety/HSE culture
Steve Arendt
Vice President Process Industries
ABS Consulting
François Coblentz
Senior Risk Consultant
ABS Consulting

Post-Conference Workshops: Wednesday 18th November 2009

09:00 - 12:00 Workshop C: Alarm Management - A key element of Process Safety Management?

Efficiently run alarm management systems can be beneficial to safety systems. This workshop will assess how critical it is to your Process Safety System, taking you through: defining alarm management, a background to process alarm management issues and the guidance to good alarm management.

At this workshop you will:

  • Shape your relations through the effective implementation of leadership strategies
  • Discover the possible contributions to Process Safety Management
  • Explore what guidance there is in this area, specifically how to apply the EEMUA 191
  • Evaluate the legislator’s and/or stakeholder’s perspective
  • Link how good alarm management contributes to improved uptime/reliability

Rob Turner
Principal Consultant
ABB Engineering Services

12:30 - 15:00 Workshop D: Implementing Behavior Based Safety Process Management - BAPCO’s experience

At this interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to discuss your organisation’s latest Process Safety Management challenges in an informal setting. You will share best-practices with industry peers, enabling you to leave with ready to implement solutions.

At this workshop you will:

  • Understand the need for Behavior Based Safety (BBS) process
  • Learn how to implement BBS – BAPCO’s experience
  • Explore the benefits of BBS

Ismail Mohamed Ahmed
Behavior Based Safety Champion
Bahrain Petroleum Company

15:30 - 18:00 Workshop E: Discussing critical issues in Process Safety: A CCPS - Middle East model steering committee meeting

This interactive workshop will be modeling the typical CCPS member meeting enabling delegates to get an overview of what is happening in the field of Process Safety, discuss some topics in depth, and have input on work to be done in the future to the benefit of the industry.

At this workshop you will:

  • Explore Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) projects
  • Discuss critical industry issues and approaches
  • Uncover project ideas

Pronob Mukherjee
Regional Manager Asia-Pacific
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)