The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Safety Centre and the Safety Institute of Australia will publish two new chapters in the Occupational Health and Safety Body of Knowledge this week. The launch comes after 18 months of collaborative working, aimed at closing the knowledge gap between health and safety professionals and process safety engineers.
Completed by a cross discipline team of both IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) members and Safety Institute Australia (SIA) members, the chapters – Process Hazards (Chemical) and Managing Process Safety – will be launched via an online webinar on Wedensday, April 26. They focus on process hazards in the chemical industries, and process safety management respectively.
The ISC and the SIA announced plans to work together in January 2016. They intended to close the knowledge gap between OHS professionals and engineers in the process industries to encourage better understanding, the sharing of best practice, and improve general safety at work. There were 178 workplace safety incidents reported in Australia last year according to SafeWork Australia. Seventeen of these occurred in the process industries, which includes chemicals, oil and gas, pharmaceutical production and food production.
IChemE Safety Centre Director, Trish Kerin hosts the launch with a webinar entitled, “An Introduction to Process Safety.” This follows introductions from Australian National University Emeritus Professor Andrew Hopkins, IChemE Past President and Former Chair of the UK Health and Safety Executive, Dame Judith Hackitt and OHS Body of Knowledge Process Safety Technical Panel Member, John Temby.
For more information, visit: https://safetyinstituteofaustralia.eventsmart.com/events/introduction-to-process-safety
