2010 CCPS 2nd Latin America Conference - Sao Paulo, Brazil
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NOTE: The CCPS Latin American Conference has been postponed to June 21-24, 2010.
CCPS apologizes for any inconveniences this may have caused and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Paulo in 2010.
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim), and the Brazilian Association of Chemical Engineering (ABEQ), are coordinating to present the 2nd CCPS Latin American Process Safety Conference and Expo. This annual event is the major forum in Latin America for practitioners from the chemical and allied industries, academia, and government to share practical and technological advances in all aspects of process safety. This year’s conference will take place in São Paulo, Brazil on October 21-23, 2009 and will be in conjunction with Abiquim’s Responsible Care® conference. The conference will consist of oral presentations in each of the topical sessions listed below as well as poster presentations on any process safety topic.
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Roxy Schneider at roxys@aiche.org or by phone at +1.646.495.1372.
Conference Chair: Scott Berger, CCPS, scotb@aiche.org
Conference Co-Chair: Americo Diniz Carvalho Neto, Braskem, americo.neto@braskem.com.br
- Training and Qualification for the Process Safety Professional
- Fire and Explosion Prevention
- Mechanical Integrity
- Indicators and Metrics in Process Safety
- Inherent Safety
- Risk Management
- Safety Instrumented Systems
- Transportation Risk Assessment
- Auditing Process Safety
- Process Safety Culture
Training and Qualification for the Process Safety Professional
The challenges and concerns of process safety, coupled with the vital importance of the field, require that process safety professionals be highly skilled. With the aging workforce and the growing number of experienced process safety experts that are eligible for retirement, the training and qualification of new process safety workers is a prominent concern across the process industries. This session will feature presentations focusing on the programmes developed in industry and academia to train and educate the next generation of process safety experts.
Fires and explosions result in the largest losses in process safety accidents. The increased sensitivity by industry, regulatory, and public sectors due to recent events as well as challenging market conditions has caused industry to scrutinize their existing approaches and develop balance between consequence and risk methods. Papers submitted to this session will focus on new techniques, stories of applications, comparisons of methods, nuance of applications, etc. for both temporary and permanent facilities
This session will include presentations that focus on the latest tools, work processes, and methodologies adopted in the various stages of project management to eliminate and / or mitigate the process safety risks associated with mechanical failure.
Indicators and Metrics in Process Safety
This session will feature presentations focused on using the new CCPS Process Safety Metrics and other metrics to drive continual improvement in a company’s process safety culture and in overall incident reduction performance. Emphasis will be placed on papers that describe actual experience with implementing metrics, tracking results, and making decisions based on these results.
This session will include papers that present the principles and strategies for applying inherently safer thinking from the start of the life cycle to the end process.
This session will include articles relating to development and implementation of risk management systems to process in projects, production, storage, transportation and distribution of products and application of criteria for acceptability of risk to improve the management of safety processes, the risk profile the company and assist in decision-making.
The subjects also can include examples of experiences and results of integration of systems management and evaluation of the management of safety processes for the sustainability of the company.
The identification of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) and the design and proper application of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) is an ongoing challenge for the process industries. This session invites papers featuring new and innovative ideas in the areas of Independent Protection Layer (IPL) identification, Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) identification, Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assignment, and SIS management systems.
Transportation Risk Assessment
Transportation Risk Assessment (TRA) is an essential aspect of risk management. TRA manages transportation risks by considering hazards, routes, and impacts. This promotes the identification of major contributors to the risk and thus strategies for risk reduction. TRA includes consideration of toxic, flammability, explosivity, and security risks. This session will include papers that provide TRA examples and application experience, tools and methods, and risk management decisions made as a result of these assessments.
This session will include papers that address management systems for ensuring effective audit processes. Topics in this session may also include developing internal audit program; audit team independence, skills, and qualifications; tools to audit and to follow-up on items identified during an audit; auditing process safety culture; and auditing global operations.
This session welcomes abstracts focusing on the cultural aspects of a successful Process Safety program. Papers that present new and innovative ideas on corporate-wide and site-specific safety culture improvements, developing or improving operational discipline, and other approaches addressing the “human element” in operating safely will be considered.