LP2013
14th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries12 maggio - 15 maggio 2013 / Firenze, Italia
Sede
Firenze Fiera
Villa Vittoria
Piazza Adua, 1 - 50123 Firenze
Dettagli
Welcome to the 14th EFCE Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries. This Symposium shall be a market place for
- presenting new scientific results and concepts
- exchanging of best practices
- learning from experience and case studies
Nearly 40 years have gone by, since safety professionals, scientists and practitioners met on EFCE Loss Prevention Symposia and in this period considerable progress has been achieved in the field of safety in the process industries. The latter includes besides the chemical industry, also oil and gas, energy, pharmaceutical, food and other industries as well as the related service industry.
Despite this progress, we are still witnessing major incidents in Europe and all over the world. Therefore exchanging information and stimulating the development of new methods and the dissemination of data, implementing process safety management which may reduce the risk of fires, explosions and loss of containment in the process industries, is a must and a need.
In the meantime, innovation leads to new processes under yet unknown conditions and introducing potential new hazards from novel or emerging technologies, and materials. Hence, there is a continuous need for further research and development in the field.
To foster new ideas the EFCE Excellence Award for Process Safety will be assigned to outstanding PhD research work for the second time on this conference.
Transfer to practice is as important as development of know-how, and quite some challenges are still to be addressed in order to make further progress in process safety. To name a few: closing the loop from operational experience back to design, development of sufficiently detailed models for emergency response planning, development of the resilience engineering approach, involvement of all levels of management and in particular the operational management level, and so on.
Let us therefore take the opportunity of this Symposium, to learn from each other, to transfer experience and to preserve existing know-how for the benefit of the process industry and the safety of employees and the public.
Organizzatore: AIDIC, Bruno Fabiano, Simberto Senni Buratti
http://www.aidic.it/lp2013/
lp2013@aidic.it
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