Competency and risk assessment by Paul Davies.  For obvious reasons, it’s important that risk assessments are undertaken by those competent in the selection and application of the methods and tools used, and in making the judgments and assumptions critical to the results.  Arguably, it is of even greater importance when the assessments are used to meet regulatory requirements... whose purpose is to avoid ‘high-fatality’ accidents ..... Commentary 10-Aug-10

Is all the post-Buncefield research a waste of money? by Martin Goose.  It is now several years since I spent most of one December Sunday in 2005 watching the television coverage of the Buncefield fire on the BBC News Channel (or BBC News 24 ...).  Although I now live in Wirral, NW England, I lived for 5 years in a village on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, although on the other side of the town centre from Buncefield.  The Buncefield ..... Commentary 23-Apr-10

Six tips for plant safety by Trevor Kletz.  1. Publish your accidents reports and their recommendations so that other companies and organisations can benefit from them, for four reasons: (a)  Moral: if we have information which may prevent accidents we have a moral duty to pass it on to other people. (b) Economic: some companies spend a lot of money on safety.  By telling our competitors what we have done we encourage them to spend ..... Commentary 23-Apr-10

It’s not my fault.  It was a bad rule, gov! by Peter Webb.  The portable building at Texas City in which the fatalities occurred was not referred to the Process Safety Department for a quantitative risk assessment, because the risk assessment team leader misunderstood the ‘350 ft rule’. But what if it had been given the required analysis?  The QRA methodology the refinery used had been published in 1996 by the Amoco Process Safety ..... Commentary 12-Apr-10

Risk assessment - It’s only first base by Adam Gordon.  I’m pleased to have been invited to be a regular contributor to ‘Risk Matters,’ because, well, risk matters.  It’s a key part of the reason why anyone or any group would look to the future… which of course also conditions how we look, what we look for, and what we find or miss.  So this stimulates me to put down a few thoughts about risk assessment and its relationship with industry and strategic ..... Commentary 4-Jan-10

Dylan Campbell, PetroSA
dylan.campbell[at]petrosa.co.za
Enterprise risk man.  Hazard id.  Risk management theory.  Operational risk management.  Process safety man.  QRA.  Accident investigation.

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Dr Paul Davies, Lloyd’s Register
paul.davies[at]lr.org
Societal risk.  Risk aversion.  Land-use planning.  Safety zones.  Transport.  Occupied buildings.  Risk criteria.  Horizon scanning. 

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Denise Dowen, Berrymans Lace Mawer
denise.dowen[at]blm-law.com
Health, safety and environmental law.  Corporate manslaughter.  Legal audits of HSE management systems.  Impact of new safety controls.

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Martin Goose, Independent Consultant, Eur Ing
mg[at]alarp.plus.com
Risk management.  Demonstration of safety.  Risk criteria.  Societal risk.  Risk aversion.  Land-use planning.  Occupied buildings. 

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Adam Gordon, Future Studio
adam.gordon[at]futuresavvy.net
Risk and people.  Language.  Risk culture.  Risk maturity.

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Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Australian National University
andrew.hopkins[at]anu.edu.au
Process safety.  Safety culture.  Leadership.  Safety management. 

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Dr Trevor A. Kletz, Visiting Professor, Loughborough & Texas A&M
t.kletz[at]lboro.ac.uk
HAZOP.  HAZAN (QRA).  Inherently safer design.  Accident investigation.  Remembering the lessons of the past. 

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Dr Sam Mannan, Texas A&M University
sammannan[at]tees.tamus.edu
Incident investigation.  Hazard & risk analysis.  Reactive chemicals/ runaway reactions.  Inherently safer design.  LNG safety/modelling. 

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Ben Poblete, Director Global Projects QHSSE, Cameron
ben.poblete[at]c-a-m.com
Risk Management.  Hazard id and management systems.  Human factors.  Marine/offshore risk assessment.  Inherent safety. Asset integrity. 

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Peter Webb, Lyondell Basell
peter.webb[at]lyondellbasell.com
Process safety.  Organisational and safety culture.  HSE management.  Major accident hazards.  Risk assessment. 

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Simon Webb, EHS Director EMEA, Research Operations, Pfizer
simon.webb[at]pfizer.com
Behavioural safety.  Organisational change/change control.  Safe systems of work.  Management of road risk.  Accident investigation. 

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