Welcome to the 13th EFCE Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries.
This Symposium shall be a market place for
- new scientific result and concepts
- exchange of best practice
- learning from experience
Much progress has been seen in the more than thirty years, since safety professionals, scientists and practitioners meet on EFCE Loss Prevention Symposia, but still there is a continuous need for research and development in the field, as new challenges appear: Innovation has led to new processes under yet unknown conditions (e.g. extreme pressure or temperature) or involving new materials (e.g. nano-particles).
Furthermore new concepts are required in view of new or upcoming regulation (e.g. ATEX, REACH, GHS).
To foster new ideas in the field, the EFCE Excellence Award for Process Safety will be assigned to outstanding PhD research work for the first time on this conference.
Risk Analysis 2010 is the seventh international conference on ‘Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation’. Covering a series of important topics, which are of current research interest and have many practical applications, the conference is concerned with all aspects of risk analysis and hazard mitigation, ranging from specific assessment of risk to mitigation associated with both natural and anthropogenic hazards.
The analysis and management of risk and the mitigation of hazards is of fundamental importance to planners and researchers around the world. We live in an increasingly complex society with the potential for disasters on a worldwide scale. Scientific knowledge is essential to our better understanding of risk. Natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, fires and others, have always affected human societies. Man-made hazards, however, played a comparatively small role until the industrial revolution when the risk of catastrophic events started to increase due to the rapid growth of new technologies. The interaction of natural and anthropogenic risks adds to the complexity of the problem.
Safecomp 2010 Key Theme:
Critical Embedded Systems
Challenges and Risks
After 31 years of SAFECOMP, the emphasis of the 29th event is to take a look at critical embedded systems which are already almost omnipresent, communicating and cooperating,
interacting with each other, humans and
environment. Their impact on our life, risks and challenges are often not well understood (underestimated or exaggerated). The primary issue is to cope with complexity and new paradigms of failure modes and resource
management, due to shrinking feature size, multi-core systems on chip and management of multiple variants while maintaining dependability properties and robustness of
systems.
The topic includes purely scientific/technical as well as societal aspects. It concerns (explicitly used or hidden) devices, services, infrastructures, machines, transport
systems, robots etc. It also involves raising awareness for rare circumstances under which, because of an unlucky combination of conditions, a normally non-critical system
may endanger life, as may be the case when relying too much on past correct operation. Therefore, a holistic view is required. The conference will cover research in all related
areas, industrial experience and practice, reports from interesting R&D projects, studies, standardization issues, assessment, evaluation and certification of systems, tools and utilities. Different application domains as well as generic, cross domain issues may be covered.
Risknowlogy offers a TUV certified functional safety training course for safety instrumented systems professionals and engineers. The course focuses on functional safety aspects for the process, oil & gas, and chemical industries according to IEC 61508 / 61511.
The Fifth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES 2010 – The International Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES 2010 will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc.
ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.
Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of internationa journals. Papers of ARES 2009 were selected to appear in special issues of the journals (JISSec, IJCCBS).
Safety 2010 is a major world conference bringing stakeholders in the prevention of unintentional injuries and violence from around the world to debate, discuss and exchange information and experiences. The conference will be co-sponsored by the World Health Organization.
The key theme of the conference is Safe and Equitable Communities. This theme has been chosen to reflect the disproportionate burden from almost all types of injuries that falls on poorer communities. Such differences are apparent both within countries, between countries and even between global regions.
It is estimated that 70% of all workplace accidents could be prevented if organizations put in place proper safety control measures. However, the driving force for a strong corporate safety culture must come from the top and flow throughout the organization.
Fire Safety is one of the key features that come into picture when discussing Safety in a working culture. A study suggests that most of the accidents can be prevented if a proactive approach is observed by all the people involved in a project. Fire Safety is a joint approach and works best with all the relevant entities performing their roles effectively. The government particularly working on the design and architectural issues before licensing the project, the industry leader, contractors and sub-contractors abiding by the safety regulations along with the finest fire safety models and technologies, can evade the loss of human assets and property to disasters.
Therefore, Middle East Fire and Safety Conference 2010 will focus on the codes and practices, along with the latest technologies available with case studies from the past. Hence attending this event will provide an excellent platform for discussing issues related to Fire Safety.
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