2006

Beyond Regulatory Compliance, Making Safety Second Nature
October 23-24, 2006 Program

PROCEEDINGS ORDER FORM

Tuesday, October 23, 2006
8:00am - 9:30am
Frank P. Lees Memorial Lecture“Lessons from Texas City, A Case Study,” Michael P. Broadribb, Director, Process Safety, BP International, United Kingdom - Presentation“State of the Center: Research Program, Current Activities, and Future Direction,” Dr. Sam Mannan, Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
TRACK I Skip Early, Early Consulting Marc Levin, Shell Global Solutions	TRACK II Kathy Shell, RMT Mike Marshall, OSHA	TRACK III George King, Dow Chemical Scott Ostrowski, ExxonMobile
10:00am - 11:30 am
Reactive Chemicals I “Solvent Effects on DTBP Decomposition,” M. Levin, Shell Global Solutions “A Complete Analysis by Calorimetries and Spectrometers for Styrene and its Derivatives,” C.C. Liao, C.M. Shu, National Yunlin University, Taiwan, and M.L. Shyu, University of Miami - Presentation “Runaway Chemical Reaction Exposes Community to Highly Toxic Chemicals,” M. Kaszniak and J. Vorderbruggen, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board - Presentation	Lessons Learned from Katrina and Rita “Industrial Chemical Releases Associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana and Texas,” P.Z. Ruckart, M.F. Orr, ATSDR, and K. Lanier, A. Koehler, Louisiana Office of Public Health presentation “HSE & Technical Challenges for the Mars Recovery Project,” W. DuPlantis, and D. Knoll, Shell International Exploration and Production - Presentation “Hurricane Rita: An Unwelcome Visitor to PPG Industries in Lake Charles, Louisiana,” R.E. Sanders, PPG Industries	Human Error “Inherent Safety, Ethics, and Human Error,” M. Papadaki, Leeds University - Presentation “The Relationship Between Automation Complexity and Operator Error,” R.A. Ogle, D.T. Morrison, and A.R. Carpenter, Exponent, Inc. - Presentation
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Reactive Chemicals II “Study on Thermal Decomposition Characteristics of AIBN,” X. Li, X. Wong, and H. Koseki, National Research Institute for Fire and Disaster, Japan - presentation “Decomposition of Solvents in Reactive Chemical Processes,” J. Tsui, P. Liu, J. Sisko, and P. Dell’Orco, GlaxoSmithKline - presentation “Layer of Protection Analysis for Reactive Chemical Risk Assessment,” C. Wei, DNV and W.J. Rogers and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC “Panel Discussion on Reactive Chemicals,” R. Elveston, U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration - presentation	Hazard Management “A Review of the Criteria for People Exposure to Radiant Heat Flux from Fires,” P.K. Raj, Technology & Management Systems “Reducing Aluminum Dust Explosion Hazards: Case Study of Dust Inerting in an Aluminum Buffing Operation,” T.J. Myers, Exponent, Inc. “Study on the Generation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate from the Aqueous Film-Forming Foam,” T. Kishi and M. Arai, The University of Tokyo, Japan - Presentation “Equipment Failure Rate Updating Bayesian Estimation,” A. Shafaghi, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.	Safety, Security, and Risk Management “A Risk-Based Approach to Flammable Gas Detector Spacing,” B. Deshotels, L. Porter, M. Dejmek, and S. DeFriend, Fluor, Inc. - Presentation “Enhance Process Hazard Analysis by Optimizing the Study Team,” J. Philley, Baker Engineering & Risk Consultants - Presentation “Beyond Guns, Guards, and Gates: A Holistic Approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection,” S.M. Mitchell and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - Presentation “Fuzzy Risk Matrix,” A.S. Markowski, Technical University of Lodz, POLAND and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - Presentation
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Reactive Chemicals III “Combined Use of Heat-Flow Calorimetry and Molecular Modeling for the Study of Runaway Reactions,” M. Papadaki, University of Leeds, UK, and W.J. Rogers and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - presentation “Studies on Runaway Reaction of ABS Polymerization Process,” K.H. Hu, C.-S. Kao, and Y.-S. Duh, Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taiwan - presentation “Risk Evaluation on the Basis of Pressure Rate Measured by Automatic Pressure Tracking Adiabatic Calorimeter,” Y. Iwata and H. Koseki, National Research Institute for Fire and Disaster, Japan - Presentation	Lessons Learned / Case Histories “Haloamine Formation in Bromine Recovery Tower - A Case Study Reinforcing the Need for Periodic Review of Process Hazards,” J. Cranston, Albemarle Corporation. - Presentation “Corporate Crisis Management,” D. Belonger, DJB Associates, Inc - Presentation “Trailer Siting Issues: BP Texas City,” D. Holmstrom, F. Altamirano, J. Banks, G. Joseph, M. Kaszniak, C. MacKenzie, R. Shroff, H. Cohen, and S. Wallace, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board - Presentation	LNG “LNG Mitigation Experiments - Preliminary Results,” B. Cormier, Y. Wang, and M.S. Mannan, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Presentation “Validation of CFD (FLUENT) to LNG Spills into Geometrically Complex Environments,” F. Gavelli, E. Bullister, and H. Kyotomaa, Exponent - Presentation “Errors in FERC Environmental Impact statement Determinations of LNG Vapor Cloud Exclusion Zones: Failure to Account for Air Mixing in Vapor Impoundments,” J. Havens, University of Arakansas - Presentation “Videos of Recent LNG Experiments”, M. Moore, Flameout Control
Wednesday, October 24, 2006
8:00am - 9:30am
General Session“The Drive to Zero: Dow Chemical’s Injury Reduction Journey” Rich Wells, Global Business Vice President, Chlor Alkali/Chlorinated Organics, The Dow Chemical Company - Presentation
TRACK I Skip Early, Early Consulting Marc Levin, Shell Global Solutions	TRACK II Kathy Shell, RMT Mike Marshall, OSHA	TRACK III George King, Dow Chemical Scott Ostrowski, ExxonMobile
10:00am - 11:30am
Alarm Management and Safety Instrumented Systems “PSM and SIS: Let’s Bridge the ISA 84 Compliance Gaps Now,” C. Miller, Exida - Presentation “The Evolution of the Cookbook,” M. Gentile and A.E. Summers, SIS-TECH Solutions - Presentation “The Top Ten Worst Performing Alarm Systems in Industry,” B. Hollifield, PAS - Presentation	Management for Process Safety I “What Really Went Wrong? Root Cause Determination Study and Improvement Initiative Results,” G.M. Kiihne, BASF Corporation - Presentation “Maintaining Certification Compliance of Equipment Used in Hazardous (Classified) Locations,” C.A. Gagliardi, FM Approvals - Presentation “Using a Risk-Based Process to Design Inherently Safer and More Reliable Technological Systems,” D.A. Jones, AcuTech - Presentation	Modeling and Simulation “Molecular Simulation Studies of Adsorption of Hazardous Molecules: The Hydrogen Cyanide and Methyl Ethyl Ketone Case,” R.R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis, and R.W. Thompson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Presentation “Screening Tool for Quick Evaluation of Indoor Toxic Release,” M. Rothschild, Rohm and Haas Company - Presentation “Offsite Toxic Consequence Risk Assessment - A Simplified Modeling Procedure and Case Study,” J. Guarnaccia, T. Hoppe, and L. Floyd, Ciba Specialty Chemicals - Presentation
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Safety Culture “Process Safety Improvement - Quality and Target Zero,” K. Van Scyoc, DNV Consulting - Presentation “Safety - Make it Personal,” A. Peters, Parsons Corporation - Presentation “Safety Climate Practice in the Korean Manufacturing Industry,” J.B. Baek, Chungju National University, S. Bae, K.P. Singh, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center - Presentation	Management for Process Safety II “A Project Management Centered Approach for MOC in Process Industry,” C. McDonald, D. Lowe, P. Guillard and A. Wong, Dyadem Engineering “The Challenges and Pitfalls of Management of Change Programs,” N. Keren, Iowa State University, H.H. West and Bob Nalbone, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center “Risk Based Process Safety,” J.L. McCavit, J.L. McCavit Consulting - Presentation	Facility Siting “Dow’s Guidelines for Locating Temporary Portable Buildings,” P. Partridge, Dow Chemical Company - Presentation “Considerations for Siting Buildings with Regard to Vapor Cloud Explosions,” C. Buchwald, ExxonMobil Chemical Company - Presentation “An Analysis of the Siting Process of an LNG Reception Facility in Taichung Port, Taiwan,” E.C. Tsai, National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan “Recent Advances in Vapor Cloud Explosion Modeling for Onshore Installations,” V. Raghunathan and C. Spitzenberger, DNV - Presentation
2:45pm - 4:45pm
Atmospheric Venting “Screening Atmospheric Relief Devices for Unacceptable Risks,” D. Eure, Dow Chemical Company - Presentation “Atmospheric Relief,” B. Banick, ExxonMobil - Presentation	Database and Learning “The CSB Incident Database - Description, Summary Statistics and Uses,” M.R. Gomez, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board “Recent Case Histories from OSHA,” R. Elveston, U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration - Presentation “Searchlights from the Past,” T.A. Kletz, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Presentation	Sustainable Engineering & Risk Management “Resilient Engineering Systems: Pipe Design,” S.M. Mitchell and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - Presentation “Engineered for Sustainable Development: Application of Analytical Approach and Metrics on a Bio-Diesel Plant,” D. Narayanan, R. Talreja, C. Ehlig-Economides, H.H. West and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - Presentation “The New Jersey Chemical Security Prescriptive Order and Implications for National Chemical Security and Inherent Safety,” D.A. Moore, M. Hazzan, and M. Rose, AcuTech “An Expert System for LOPA,” A.S. Markowski, J.A. Suardin and M.S. Mannan, MKOPSC - Presentation
4:50pm - 5:00pm
Special Session: Engineering Ethics Dr. Sam Mannan, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center

Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center
Room 200, Jack E. Brown Building
Texas A&M University, 3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Phone: (979) 845-3489
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