Safety Symposium Extends Deadline For Papers

The 2016 International Symposium of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center extends its call for papers until March 25. The half-day symposium features critical issues of research in process safety. The symposim will be held at the College Station Hilton Conference Center on October 25-27, 2016. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center is part of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.

Topics for papers include:

Offshore Energy and Safety - Deep Water and Arctic
Hazard Assessment
Case Studies – Histories, Lessons Learned, Databases
Safety Instrumented Systems
Inherently Safer Processes – New Processes, Existing Plants, Man – Machine Interface
Human Factors – Engineering, Behavioral Safety, Human Error
Process Management for Safety – PS Engineering, PSM components, PSM with limited resources, Innovative Strategies for Improvement
Fire Protection Engineering
Safety Culture – Relationship to High Consequence/Low Probability Events
Facility Siting – Personnel Siting
Consequence Analysis
LNG – Design, Experiment Evaluation, Consequence Analysis, Mitigation, Research Needs, Regulations
Control Systems – Unusual Situation Mgmt., Safety Instrumented Systems, Integrity Levels, Reliability analysis, Reliance on SIS, Alarm Mgmt.
Resilience/Sustainability
Risk Assessment, Analysis and Management
Reactive Chemistry – Predicting Reactivity, Role of Contaminants, Catalysts and Inhibitors, Case Histories, Experimental Methods
Equipment Integrity – Design for Maintenance, Maintenance Hazard Analysis, Monitoring