CSChE 2022 – PSM Symposium
Presentations
- Kayleigh Rayner Brown – Advancing Process Safety Management in Wood Pellet Production
- Alex Warthe – Adoption of CSA Z767 in BC Regulation
- Lianne Lefsrud and Adrian Pierorazio – PSMD Strategic Priorities
- Modusser Tufail – Regulatory Streams to trigger Process Safety Management for Small and Medium Enterprises
- Tijani Elabor – CER Process Safety Management Oversight
- Cathy Campbell – Responsible Distribution Canada (RDC)
- Douglas T. Reindl – Beyond Regulatory Compliance … the Business Case for PSM
- Trevor Williams – WorkSafeBC Process Safety Initiative: Our journey into Process Safety so far as an OHS Regulator…
CSChE 2021 – PSM Symposium
Presentations
- Graham D. Creedy – The Elephant in the Room: Major Accidents, the Business Case Fallacy, and What to do About It
- Graham D. Creedy – The Societal Control of Risk and Sustainability: Chronic and Acute Risk Are Different!
- Marcello Oliverio – Risk Matrix for Canada
- Guy Brouillard – Mechanical Integrity & Layers of Protection -Lessons Learned from audits and losses
- Michelle Naef – Decision support for process operators
- Mona A. Rad, Lianne Lefsrud, Michael Hendry – Inadvertently introducing human factors in automated systems control: Train protection systems
- Mahdi Sharifian – Risk Assessment and Safety of a Micro-GTL Plant
- German Luna-Mejías – Management approach to Process Safety
- Manuel Marta – Study-Based Risk Analyses Variability: Issues and Opportunities
- Modusser Tufail – Process Safety Management Reviews Initiative of a Municipal Fire Department
CSChE 2019 – PSM Symposium – Halifax, Nova Scotia
Presentations
- Paul Mcculloch – Bow Ties in Risk Management: A Concept Book for Process Safety
- Guy Brouillard – Bow-Tie Analysis
- Jérôme Taveau – Combining the Dust Explosion Pentagon with Inherently Safer Design Principles to Develop and Communicate Risk Reduction Strategies
- Kayleigh Rayner Brown – Inherently Safer Design Protocol for Process Hazard Analysis
- Albert Addo – Investigation of Marginal Explosibility in the 20-L and 1-m3chambers
- Bill Timbers – Catastrophic Event Spotting –Tracking of Catastrophic Events in the “Wild” from Inception to Conclusion
- Chris Cloney – 119 Years of Dust Explosion Incidents: Lessons Learned & Open Challenges
- Devin O’Malley – CFD Simulation of Dispersion and Dissolution in Subsea Acid Gas Releases
- Amanda Sistilli – Integrating PSM within an Organization through an Integrated Management System (IMS)
- Alexandre Cardoso – Overview of Combustible Dust
- Daniel Kurian – Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Incident Reports in Alberta Oil Sands Operations
- Gerard Chisholm – Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019
- Ali Mohamed- Effect of Layer Thickness and Particle Size on the Minimum Ignition Temperature of Sawdust
- Jeffrey Castrucci – Embedding Safety Education in Existing Academic Curricula
- Geert van Loopik – CGE Risk Management Solutions
- Marcello Oliverio – Marcello’s PSM Journey
- Arko Ghosh – Risk Analysis of a Processing System Considering Multivariate Dependency and Correlation
- Devin O’Malley – Simulation of Atmospheric Dispersion Under Different Stability Classes
CSChE 2017 – Edmonton, Alberta
Keynote Lecture
- Fred Henselwood – The Use of Inherent Layers of Protection to Create Line-of-Sight between Individual Activities and Process Safety Performance
Presentations
- G.Winkel – Making Safety Real: Taking Risk Management to the Next Level
- Neil Anderson – Employing Multifaceted Teaching and Learning Components to Foster CEAB Graduate Attribute Development
- Ifeoma Odeluga – Creating QRA Scenarios
- W.G.Timbers – I’ve Got an App for That! All Things Risk in One Place, or the Democratization of PHA Software and Tools
- Leonardo Pennetta de Oliveira – Creating a Positive Safety Culture and Continuous Improvement in Alberta’s Construction Industry
- Jeff Dancey – Risk According to a Matrix
- Guillermo Pacanins – The New Updated International Standard IEC 61511:2016 Ed. 2 (Key Changes)
- Ronjit Mukherjee – PHA Risk Reduction Optimization for Implementing Recommendations
- Tenny Thomas – Process Safety Implementation in a Greenfield Refinery Project in Alberta
- Dhaval Shah – Safety Aspects of Floating LNG: Preliminary Inherent Safer Design Selection of Liquefaction Process
- James Sneddon – Practical Application of Bowtie Analysis: Enhancing Traditional PHA
- Sean Robitaille – Risk Ranking Tool for Railway Transport of Dangerous Goods in Canada
- Guy Brouillard – Comparison of the New Canadian PSM Standard CSA Z767 to Existing PSM Standards
- Paul Amyotte – We Can Do Better
- Nicholas Bak – A Bibliometric Analysis of the Interdisciplinarity of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion Research from 2000-2016
- Daanish H. Hamid – How are Safety, Quality and Productivity Related?
- James Loudoun – Optimizing PFP through Risk Based Structural Analysis
- Kathleen Baker – Protecting Worker Safety by Enhancing Field Level Hazard Assessment Tools Baker K.E., *Lefsrud L.M., Macciotta R., Hendry M.
CSChE 2016 – Québec City, Québec
Keynote Lectures
- Trish Kerin – Remembering the Past Shapes our Future
- Coral Lukaniuk – A Changing Landscape: The Pipeline Industry in Canada
Presentations
- Ali Sari – A Novel Approach for Risk Assessment of Large Oil Storage Tanks
- Yene Irvine – An Analysis of CSB Investigation Reports
- Ali Sari – An Innovative Risk-based Fire Analysis and Passive Fire Protection (PFP) Optimization for Safer and Economical Design
- Sam Sanati – Applying Functional Safety Engineering Technique to Optimize Defensive Fire Protection Strategy
- Mireille Busque – Bowties in Process Safety Auditing
- Jeff Dancey – Condensation Induced Water Hammer: Risks and Issues Associated with SAGD Operations
- Eli Viloria – Development and Deployment of a Process Safety Curriculum in a North American Pipeline Company
- Richard Piette – Driving Consistency in the Estimation of Severity Levels in PHA Studies
- Pierre Drolet – Industrial Auditing in a World Scale Organization
- Hugo Julien – Mechanical Integrity vs PSM Requirements
- François Roche – MIARC – A Consensus in Quebec on Threshold Values for Emergency Response and Land Use Planning
- Sam Sanati – Effective PSSR in Management of Change for Existing Plants
- Sam Sanati – Introduction to Pipeline Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Christian Riopel – Process Safety Implementation Using Bow-Tie Methodology
- Mireille Busque – Process Safety in the Mining Industry –Rio Tinto Aluminium’s experience
- Marcello Oliverio – Risk –How to Measure it and Evaluate it….With an emphasis on process safety
- Anay P Raibagkar – Risk-Based Approach to Building Designs and Decision Making
- Ali Sari – Risk-based Blast Design for Safer Occupied Buildings in Industrial Facilities
- Charles Corbit – Risk Based Process Safety: Making a Step Change Improvement in Operational Excellence
- Mohammad A Khan – Simultaneous State and Input Estimation of Non-linear Process with Unknown Inputs Using Particle Swarm Optimization Particle Filter (PSO-PF) Algorithm
CSChE 2015 – Calgary, Alberta
Keynote Lecture
- Shakeel Kadri – CCPS process safety vision 20/20
Process Safety Management Award Lecture
- David Guss – Implementing PSM – Where is the finish line?
Presentations
- Adrian Pierorazio – State of the division address
- Doug McCutcheon – Implementing MIACC criteira Into “Risk Based Land Use Planning” bylaws requires several activities to be successful
- Alison De Man – Managing double jeopardy in process hazard analysis
- Beverly Perozzo – Managing change while making a change
- Jan Windhorst – Opportunities for errors and omissions in the PHA to LOPA process for safety integrity level (SIL) determination
- Ross Lakin – Type and timing of risk assessment appropriate to Canadian oil sands facilities
- Ghaffar Keshavarz – Assumptions and uncertainties in consequence modeling
- Dinesh Herath – Probabilistic estimation of hydrate formation in pipelines operating in Arctic conditions
- Peter Scantlebury – Engineering safety into the design
- Sam Sanati – Overpressure safety management in oil and gas industry
- Mohammed Pasha – Optimization of industrial plant maintenance, reliability and operational excellence. Inspection and testing of critical equipment, safety of equipment, preventive maintenance
- Sam Sanati – Efficient safety critical element identification for onshore facilities
- Sylvia Layton – How are you managing major accident hazards? Who’s defining safety critical elements at your site?
- Edgar Ramirez – Proof testing of safety protections: detection of conditions that lead to safety function failures
- Supraja Sridharan – Corrosion-related failures on single wall aboveground fuel oil storage tanks
- Jim Sheehan – Amending Environment Canada’s prohibition of certain toxic substances regulations
- Elizabeth Alderson – Development of CSChE Guideline for Chemical Spill Environmental/ Ecological Risk Assessment
- Claire Munro – Human factors issues are key to addressing major accident hazards
- Calvin Simpson – Taking HAZOP home
- Alfonsius Ariawan – Increasing process hazard awareness and reducing risk through observation
- Ben Woodcock – The impact of technological advances on decision-making by human operators
- Alfonsius Ariawan – Perspectives on human factors in shifting environment
- Jason Kumagai – Managing human fatigue
- Steve Coe – Human factors: The standard
- Barry Throness – Keeping the memory alive, preventing memory loss that contributes to process safety events
- Sam Sanati – Process safety management: Managing the blind spots
- Ghaffar Keshavarz – Loss of process containment: The need for new thresholds
Technical Papers
- Alison De Man – Managing double jeopardy in process hazard analysis
- Jan Windhorst – Opportunities for errors and omissions in the PHA to LOPA process for safety integrity level (SIL) determination
- Peter Scantlebury – Engineering safety into the design
- Claire Munro – Human factors issues are key to addressing major accident hazards
- Barry Throness – Keeping the memory alive, preventing memory loss that contributes to process safety events
CSChE 2007 – Edmonton, Alberta
Presentations
- William Wark – Chemical Process Safety after BP Texas City
- Tim Overton – Meeting Today’s Societal Expectations: Process Risk Management Programs of the Dow Chemical Company
- Della Wong – Risk Based Decisions
- Laird Wilson – Effective Investigation and Analysis of Major Incidents in an Industrial Setting That Will Produce the Most Valuable Outcomes
- Richa Sahib – Pre-Turnaround Process Safety Audits
- Adrian Pierorazio – Building Blast Shields: An Overview
- Gerry Phillips – Fires and Explosions
- Doug McCutcheon – Using a Risk Based Approach to Emergency Planning Resources
- Doug McCutcheon – Risk Based Land-Use Planning in the Edmonton Area
- Doug McCutcheon – Incorporating Risk Concepts into Engineering Education
- Doug McCutcheon – Alberta Environmental Protection Commission Outcome
- Jean-Paul Lacoursière – Development of a Process Safety Culture for a Newly Graduated Chemical Engineer
- Fred Henselwood – MIACC Screening
- Fred Henselwood –Managing the Intolerable
- Graham Creedy – The Emperor’s Tattered Suit
- John Shrives – An Update on Proposed Amendments for the Environmental Emergency Regulations Under Section 200 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) 1999
- Tim Overton – Recent Advances in Process Safety
- Ertugrul Alp – Chemical Engineers: Trusted Voice on Technical Matters of Public Concern… or Not?
- Ertugrul Alp – Risk Assessment and Process Safety Management
- Dorothy Kellogg – Land Use Planning and Process Safety
- Dorothy Kellogg – US Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Overview
Technical Papers
- Ken Sourisseau – Process Considerations for Safe Sulphur Tank Design
- Laird Wilson and Tyler Romanyk – Effective Investigation and Analysis of Major Incidents in an Industrial Setting That Will Produce the Most Valuable Outcomes
- Thomas Boughner – Chemical Engineers: Trusted Voice on Technical Matters of Public Concern… or Not?
CSChE 2006 – Sherbrooke, Quebec
Presentations
- Ertugrul Alp – LNG Hazards and their Assessment
- Eric Clément – Prévention des accidents industriels majeurs liés à l’intervention d’une entreprise extérieure sur un site à haut risque
- Jose Condor-Tarco – Development of a Novel Incident Potential Matrix and Severity Index for Risk Quantification and HES Performance Analysis
- Graham Creedy – Shifting gears: The Changing Nature of Emergency Preparedness in the Modern Industrial Society
- Yves Dubeau – L’aménagement du territoire
- Raynald Gauvin – Incidents ayant valeur de leçon
- Jean Halde – Enjeux reliés à l’estimation des risques et à la présentation des résultats au public
- Kimberly Hradecky – Proposed Amendment to Environmental Emergency Regulations under CEPA section 200
- Sam Kozma – Practical Methods for Process Safety Management
- Hélène Lauzon – Le climat réglementaire
- David Maréchal – Influence de la réglementation sur la gestion des risques industriels et les accidents: comparaison entre l’Europe et le Canada
- Manny Marta – Building Blast Integrity: Assessment Suggested Process
- Manny Marta – Process-Related Incident Measure
- Carolyn Merritt – Commitment to a Proactive Safety Culture: Abnormal Situation Recognition and Management
- Bertin Ouellet – Sécurité des procédés industriels: Usine Norsk Hydro de Bécancour
- Gerry Phillips – Managing the Consequences of Dangerous Goods in Red Deer
- Adrian Pierorazio – Internal Explosion Methodologies
- Marcel Ricard – Gestion du risque industriel
- Romain St-Cyr – Risques industriels et aménagement du territoire
Technical Papers
- Kimberly Hradecky, Robert Reiss, Kerry Ketcheson and John Shrives – Proposed Amendment to Environmental Emergency Regulations under CEPA section 200
- Angela Blair – Dust Explosion Primer
- Gerry Phillips and Don Young – Managing the Consequences of Dangerous Goods in Red Deer
LNG Workshop 2005 – Vancouver, British Columbia
Technical Paper
- Peter Lederman – A White Paper – LNG: A Viable Technology for Improving Gas Supplies
CSChE 2005 – Toronto, Ontario
Presentations
- John Shrives – CEPA S200 Environmental Emergency Planning Regulation Essentials – What you need to know
- Ertugrul Alp – Risk Assessment in Chlorine Dioxide System
- Tom Doyle – Cost Aspects of Incidents
- Bill Bain – Creating a Safety Culture at Suncor Energy Inc
- Robert Wasileski – The Role of Basic Design Data in Preventing Explosions within Fired Equipment: A Case Study
- Adrian Pierorazio – An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Common Door Blast Shields
- Alister Chieng – Fitness for Service and Its Role in Mechanical Integrity: An Essential of PSM
- Waguih Zaky – Using FTA to Reduce Capital Cost of Safety
- D DiMattia – Human Error Probability Index for Offshore Platform Musters
- Jamie Horwood – The Impact of Expectations and Culture on Project Safety Performance
- Attiq Goraya – Incorporating Inherent Safety Principles in Process Safety Management
- Attiq Goraya – An Inherent Safety Based Incident Investigation Methodology
- Keivan Torabi – Integrated Process Risk Management (IPRM) for Refineries and Petrochemicals Complexes
- Steve Griffiths – Leadership, Commitment & Accountability: The Driver of Safety Performance
- Mike Rogers – Lessons Learned from an unusual Hydrogen Reformer Furnace Failure
- Gary Zikovitz – Ontario Ministry of the Environment Emergency Management Program
- Gary Zikovitz – Ontario’s Spill Legislation
- Amar Virdi – Corrosion Resistance of Titanium and its Alloys in the Chlor Alkali Industry
- Gerry Phillips – Understanding,and Applying the Science: A Case Study in Eliminating Process Fires
- Michael Pegg – What should we teach about Process Safety in the Undergraduate Canadian Engineering Curriculum
- Nancy Papanikolaou – Worst Case Scenario
- Thomas Boughner – Understanding & Improving Cultural Receptiveness to PSLM in the Risk Optimization of Process Facilities
- Satish Almaula – PSM in Incident and Project Delay Disputes
- Syed Ahmed – Delta Hazop Reviews at Imperial Oil
Technical Papers
- Ertugrul Alp and Thomas Boughner – Risk Assessment in Chlorine Dioxide System
- Robert Wasileski – The Role of Basic Design Data in Preventing Explosions within Fired Equipment: A Case Study
- Waguih Zaky – Using FTA to Reduce Capital Cost of Safety
- Keivan Torabi, Babak Karimi, Ranbir Parmar, Marcello Oliverio, and Keith Dinnie – Integrated Process Risk Management (IPRM) for Refineries and Petrochemicals Complexes
- Mike Rogers – Lessons Learned from an unusual Hydrogen Reformer Furnace Failure
- Hocine Ait Mohamed – Process Safety Management to Manage Risk in Occupancies other than Chemical Process Facilities
- Thomas Boughner – Understanding & Improving Cultural Receptiveness to PSLM in the Risk Optimization of Process Facilities
Environmental Emergency Regulations Workshop 2004 – Edmonton, Alberta
Presentations
- Graham Creedy – Setting the scene:Recent developments affecting major hazard control in Canada
- John Shrives – The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, Part 8, The legislation and Section 200 regulation, The guidelines and supporting documentation, The filing process: overview
- John Shrives – What to report?The filing process in detail, and typical questions/issues
- Emergency Management Ontario – Ontario’s Emergency Management Program
- Gerry Phillips – Implementing Process Safety Management to Prevent Major Incidents
- Ertugul Alp – The Risk-based Approach
- Bill MacKay – Preparedness and Response – 1
- Don Watson – Preparedness and Response – 2
- John Shrives – Other aspects of the Section 200 regulation 897, Recovery, Spill notification and reporting, Compliance and enforcement
CSChE 2004 – Calgary, Alberta
Presentations
- John Peters – Management of Change – Challenges in a Research Environment
- Yves Dubeau – Small Enterprises Should Overcome the Silo Mentality to Successfully Implement a PSM Program
- Josh Kolenc – Current State of PSM
- Brian Kelly – Process Safety Implications for Large Grassroots Projects: The Life Cycle Approach
- Doug McCutcheon – Process Safety Management for Small Business
- Doug McCutcheon – Risk Management in Small Businesses
- Ertugul Alp – Risk Matrices – Common Pitfalls in their Design and Use
Technical Papers
- Fred Henselwood and Gerry Phillips – A Matrix-Based Risk Assessment Approach for Addressing Linear Hazards such as Pipelines
- Della Wong and Reid McPhail – Key Strategies for Successful Process Safety Management
- Laird Wilson and Ron Holland – Methods to Improve Safety and Risk Management Practices and Programs
- Doug McCutcheon – CSChE-PSM Summer Institute for Canadian Chemical Engineering Professors
- Thomas Boughner – Leadership, The 13th Element of Risk Optimization in Process Facilities
CSChE 2003 – Hamilton, Ontario
Presentations
- Jean-Paul Lacoursière – Application of ARAMIS developed in the framework of SEVESO II directive to the Canadian context
- Gerry Phillips – Basing Loss Prevention Recommendations on Risk
- J O’Bryant – CEPA Guidelines and the impact in the refinery
- John Shrives – S200 Environmental Emergency Planning Regulations
- M Morton – Ontario’s Emergency Management Act
- Manny Marta – Bridging the Gap between Process Hazard Analyses & Emergency Response Plan
- Richard Fluke – Predicting Hazardous Material Releases following a Reactor Accident: Experience from Emergency Planning in the Nuclear Industry
- Diana Del Bel Belluz – Pre-Start Health & Safety Review: Regulation and Practice in Ontario
- Chris Anderson – Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs: Partnership Toward Safer Communities Program Overview
- Manny Marta – Practical Assessment Resources/Tools for Reaction Safety Management
- M Schultz – Application of a Screening Level Risk Assessment Approach in the Steel Industry: Dofasco Case Study
Technical Papers
- Jean-Paul Lacoursière – Application of ARAMIS developed in the framework of SEVESO II directive to the Canadian context
- Gerry Phillips – Basing Loss Prevention Recommendations on Risk
- Jean-François Legault – Risk Assessment related to Detecting and Identifying Chemical Agents: A Canadian Forces Approach
- Diana Del Bel Belluz – Pre-Start Health & Safety Review: Regulation and Practice in Ontario
- Doug McCutcheon – Risk Management in Small Companies
- Thomas Boughner – Chemical Engineer’s Template for Maximizing Performance of a Process Facility
PAPTAC Conference 2003 – Victoria, British Columbia
Technical Papers
- Thomas Boughner – The Discipline of Process Safety Management and How It’s Relevant to the Pulp and Paper Industry
CSChE 2002 – Vancouver, British Columbia
Presentations
- Della Wong – Using Consequence Modeling to Help Make Emergency Decisions
- Gerry Phillips – Extending the Application of CARAT to Planning and Analysis
- John Shrives – Environmental Emergency Planning Requirements for Industrials Facilities in Canada
- Doug McCutcheon – Risk Based Land Use Criteria
- Diana Del Bel Belluz – A Risk Communications Approach to Risk Assessment
- David Moore – Security Vulnerability Analyses of Chemical & Process Facilities
- Doug McCutcheon – The Importance of Teaching Risk Assessment to Engineering Students
- Huguette Blanco – Total Process Costing: a Strategic Tool in Safety Management
Technical Papers
- Gerry Phillips – Extending the Application of CARAT to Planning and Analysis
- R Ellis Knowlton – The Expansion of “Conceptual HAZOP” to cover Dive Sites
- R Ellis Knowlton – Design Intention, the Key to Effective HAZOP
- José Blanco and John Lewko – Finding Human Performance Patterns in Safety Data
- Dave Ego and Rosalynn MacGregor – Introducing an Improved Process Analysis Method – Engage, Motivate and Challenge your team
- Gerry Phillips and Laird Wilson – Overview: An Integrated Approach for Process Safety and Loss Management
- Rob Cairns, Graham Creedy and Yugo Ivanonvich – Managing the Health and Safety Aspects of Organizational Change
- Graham Creedy – Use of a Benchmark Site Self-Assessment Tool as a Leading Indicator for Tracking and Promoting Process Safety Management in the Canadian Chemical Industry
CSChE 2001 – Halifax, Nova Scotia
Presentations
- Paul Amyotte – Inherently Safer Process Design Principles
- Paul Amyotte – Application of a Loss Causation Model to the Westray Mine Explosion
- Farid Taheri – Guidelines for Offshore Structure Monitoring
- Norman Nibber – Hazard Awareness Training in Managing Operational Risks – Part 1
- Norman Nibber – Hazard Awareness Training in Managing Operational Risks – Part 2
- Norman Nibber – Hazard Awareness Training in Managing Operational Risks – Part 3
- M Riley – A Critical Review of Materials Available for Health Monitoring and Control of Offshore Structures
- Gerry Phillips – CARAT – An Operational Approach to Risk Assessment Definitions, Processes and Studies
- Ertugrul Alp – Hazard and Risk Assessment: Frequency and Consequence Analysis Techniques
- J Yuill – A Discussion on Losses in Process Industries and Lessons Learned
Technical Papers
- M Riley, Farid Taheri and Rafiqul Islam – Guidelines for Offshore Structure Monitoring
- Norman Nibber and Gerry Phillips – Hazard Awareness Training in Managing Operational Risks
- M Riley, Farid Taheri and Rafiqul Islam – A Critical Review of Materials Available for Health Monitoring and Control of Offshore Structures
- Brian Kelly – Implications of Feed Contamination on the Integrity of An Operating Plant – An Accident Case Study
- Doug McCutcheon – The Need to Teach an Integrated Approach to Process Safety Management to Undergraduate Engineering Students
- Gerry Phillips – CARAT – An Operational Approach to Risk Assessment Definitions, Processes and Studies
- Kim Keating, Stewart Behie, Alison Pegram and Ian Denness – The Management of Risks during the Operating Phase of the Terra Nova Project