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The annual process safety event was opened by the CATCH Major Hazards Group chairman, David Hughes, who introduced key note speaker Craig Foyle, President of IOSH.  Craig is on a mission to improve the reputation of safety practitioners and consultants and celebrate the achievements of a wide range of organisations and individuals who are improving safety performance.  Seeing both good and bad safety practise across the world has helped understand where we can all still improve.  Safety leadership must start at the top to make it happen.  SHE professionals can help influence positive safety culture and become safety enablers.  Motivation is key to managing and leading safety.  The best career advice Craig was ever given was be totally honest and watch the football!

Peter Galsworthy from the HSE spoke about managing risk in the major hazard sector – operator assurance.  Peter reflected on the challenge of assurance.  Offshore sector operators received a letter to highlight a trend in increasing hydrocarbon releases and a demand for a review of PSL and assurance of their audit and systems to ensure improvements are seen.  A deeper understanding is required of systems and failures inside these frameworks.  COMAH operators in the Humber were encouraged to review their systems and ensure they strengthen their shield against process safety incidents.

HSE press release –http://press.hse.gov.uk/2018/oil-and-gas-operators-challenged-on-hcrs/

Understanding Comah: performance and recognition framework, http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/guidance/performance-recognition-framework.pdf

David Coakley from the HSE spoke about P profiling – T targeting – S strategy.  A framework for thinking strategically, linked to the intervention planning process but with a longer time frame in mind.

Profiling is the base information that the strategy will be set on.  This will be done in conjunction with the operator. Review of processes, hazards and MAH scenarios.

The HSE will be looking at HSG65, following the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach.  Looking at how health and safety can be managed across the organisation in a holistic way

David recommended the guide Managing for health and safety (please note that the printed version has better/more complete diagrams than the web version) http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg65.pdf

The HSE are encouraging sites to use the OECD check list for regulatory decision making which will assist in site leadership preparations for interventions.

Phil Scott from the Chemical Industries Association gave a presentation on the ways industry can collaborate and work at continuously improving safety in our industries.

Phil highlighted the COMAH strategic forum and the Chemical & Downstream Oil Industries Forum (CDOIF) – established to support joint learning from incidents across the hazardous industry sectors.

Rob Fogg, Process Safety Consultant, ABB discussed how to Successfully Implement Process Safety Management.  The advice shared was to keep it simple, do we understand what could go wrong?  Do we know what our systems are to prevent this happening? And do we have information or evidence to assure us that the systems are working effectively?

Rob advised operators to take a step back and review what they are doing and ensure it is effective.  Process safety must be integrated with running the business, it cannot work as an add-on.  Finally Rob explained the importance of working together and improving the conversations being held about process safety management.

Alan Harper, Assistant Director of Planning, from Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Trusts joined the meeting to highlight some recent concerns regarding workers that have been exposed to a chemical on sites and the employers have arranged for the members of staff to go to hospital in a taxi.  On both occasions, the ambulance service were not informed and the A&E department therefore not given any heads up that casualties were on route.

The risks here are of secondary contamination on route to the hospital in the taxi and a potential contamination of the A&E department, who had not known to instigate their CBRN decontamination procedures.

Ambulance / Hospitals Trusts are keen to reinforce the importance of calling 999 and informing ambulance of any similar issues involving chemical incidents at work, so that appropriate advice can be given to the sites and the response from the ambulance/hospital services can be tailored to the situation.

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The Humber Environmental Managers held their annual conference on Wednesday 6 June 2018 at The Ropewalk, Barton.

Tony Edwards, Chairman of the Humber Nature Partnership & CATCH’s Humber Environmental Managers Forum, opened the conference.  At the end of 2017 the Government published its Industrial Strategy and Clean Growth Strategy followed in January 2018 by A Green Future:  Our 25 year plan to improve the Environment.

The conference considered the implications of these documents for the sustainable management of the Humber Estuary and its environs, and hear about practical initiatives that are in progress.  The event was sponsored by Clarke Energy and was held as part of Humber Business Week.

Richard Kendall, Executive Director of the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership gave a presentation on Clean growth and the Humber industrial strategy.  Clean growth will be a priority for the Humber and will need to be business led, ambitious and distinctive to the Humber and our strengths, building on the success of the Energy Estuary.  The LEP have reviewed their current priority sectors and are developing a new approach that recognises the important links between sectors and opportunities for more integration and growth in the Energy Estuary industries.  These ideas have been captured in a new document Blueprint for the Humber, launched in Humber Business Week.  link here

Then followed a presentation on the 25 Year Environment Plan from Adam Stewart, Policy Adviser, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.  The plan sets out the vision, goals and actions to improve the environment.  The plan includes measures for using and managing land sustainably, increasing resource efficiency, and reducing pollution and waste.  A chemical strategy will be published at the end of this year.

After a networking break delegates heard from Trevor Thompson, Chief Engineer at Integrated Green Energy Solutions about the new development outside Grimsby to  convert end-of life, non-recyclable plastics into road ready fuel.

Marcus Asquith, Partnership Director for Engie with North East Lincolnshire Council gave a presentation on the South Humber Industrial Investment Programme working with the natural environment.

The speakers took questions and the event closed with networking and a buffet lunch.

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