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At 18:30 on Thursday 15th March with complimentary refreshments in the Reception Building at Daresbury Laboratory of STFC Daresbury in Keckwick Lane, Warrington WA4 4AD.

This is Part 2 of his lecture on process safety - part 1 was given on 17 March 2016.

Part 1 addressed process safety and Seveso III - which applies to an establishment

that has dangerous substances on it at levels at and above the qualifying levels - and led to COMAH2015.

Some sites have changed tier and some may move out of COMAH scope altogether.

COMAH2015 and its guidance have been published to implement these changes.

Part 2 asks - what are you doing about these changes as a process engineer or process safety leader?

How are you getting commitment through your leadership?

And what is your company requiring of you?

Hear what the COMAH Strategic Forum is expecting and talk to its Chairman.

Are you making good practice the common practice. No new regulations are needed, just a commitment to leadership by engineers and accountants. People make the difference, through their mental models. Leaders create the conditions for this to happen.

Mr Rivers is a former CEO and is a well recognised industry expert and commentator on process safety in various sectors, and not least in improving resilience and viability. He creates within organisations the confidence and capacity to excel. He fosters high performing and collaborative teamwork. The results have lead to top quartile performance and to recognition as a Top Company for Leaders in the Aon Hewitt / Fortune global surveys.

“Over the past ten years, industry and regulators have been working closely together to help ensure that the circumstances leading to the Buncefield incident should not happen again. Substantial improvements to prevention and control equipment have been made and to the leadership’s focus necessary for effective process safety control” (Chris Hunt, DG UKpia).

The COMAH Strategic Forum is the joint industry/regulator group that is tasked with raising standards and improving the effectiveness of the UK's legislation on major hazards. Under the Chairmanship of Ken Rivers, the Forum released its 10-years Report on the progress in process safety since Buncefield.

How to register

Please register with Neville Snodgrass onneville.snodgrass@stfc.ac.ukfor security and refreshments purposes.