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HSE director Chris Flint discusses the need for all of us to seek to improve the approach to regulating major hazard activity effectively
Type: Feature
Shahana Buchanan: IChemE Special Interest Group Chair
Shahana Buchanan, chair of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention Special Interest Group discusses how Piper Alpha has shaped her career overseas
Type: Feature
Shakeel Ramjanee: Offshore Safety Engineer
An offshore safety engineer describes how, as he approaches the ten-year mark of his career, Piper Alpha still resonates with him as it first did when he sat in his university lecture theatre a decade ago.
Type: Feature
Phil Eames: Process Safety Trainer
Phil Eames recounts ICI’s response to the Piper Alpha tragedy and offers up a video that all young engineers and managers should watch
Type: Feature
Terry Cooper: Preventer of Major Accidents
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech he delivered at Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 6 June. The conference marked the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
Type: Feature
Disastercast host Drew Rae offers up a challenging view on the danger of convincing ourselves that we have taken 'adequate' precautions
Type: Feature
Trish Kerin: IChemE Safety Centre Director
A personal perspective from IChemE Safety Centre's Director
Type: Feature
Dame Judith Hackitt: Grenfell Tower Fire Investigator
Dame Judith Hackitt remembers Piper Alpha and in light of the Grenfell Tower fire reminds us there are no new accidents. We must maintain vigilance and commit to sharing lessons across sectors.
Type: Feature
Steve Rae: Piper Alpha Survivor
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensure that the legacy of the disaster continues to be re-visited
Type: Feature
Deirdre Michie: Trade Association Chief
Deirdre Michie reflects on the success of Oil & Gas UK's Safety 30 conference.
Type: Feature
Lord Cullen: Piper Alpha Investigator
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 5 June. The conference marked the anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, which Lord Cullen investigated on behalf of the government. The 106 recommendations made in his landmark 1990 report reshaped offshore safety culture
Type: Feature
Conor Crowley: Process Safety Consultant
People often say they remember where they were when they heard President Kennedy was shot, when Princess Diana died, or when the two planes hit the twin towers on 9/11. For Conor Crowley, the Piper Alpha disaster was not one of those moments.
Type: Feature
Chemical engineers talk fire safety
FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a risk-based approach. Two chemical engineers, Dame Judith Hackitt and Erin Johnson, have applied those skills to buildings safety, by compiling reports for the UK parliament.
Type: News
Supporting the chemical engineers of the future
The Salters' Institute is offering awards of £2,500 to recognise and support outstanding young chemists and chemical engineers, and to encourage them to join in its mission to promote science education in schools.
Type: Feature
Update: Chester engineering faculty faces relocation due to proximity to oil refinery
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its science and engineering faculty at Thornton Science Park after the local council refused to grant retrospective planning permission due to the proximity of Stanlow oil refinery.
Type: News
Queen honours Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe.
Type: News
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our data, and the big gains to be had in increasing yields and reducing costs
Type: Feature
Heat-triggered polymerisation method saves energy
A NEW polymer manufacturing process that uses the energy from the internal polymerisation reaction rather than high-temperature curing ovens, can save ten orders of magnitude of energy, according to researchers at the University of Illinois.
Type: News
Stemming the flow of plastic waste
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a policy roadmap on how to restrict the use of plastic, and there have been a wave of pledges from people and companies worldwide to phase out the plastic that is causing extreme damage to the environment.
Type: News
UK government considers investment in new nuclear power plant in Wales
BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that the UK government will take a £5bn ($US6.7bn) stake in a new nuclear power station on Anglesey in North Wales.
Type: News
