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Safety assessments: when is enough enough?


Date 27 April 2010
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Time

08:30 - 17:00
 

Location

IET London: Savoy Place, UK

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About the event

Safety engineers and managers are often under considerable commercial pressure when taking important safety related decisions. The recent Nimrod report has highlighted key failings and identified the safety case as the best opportunity to prevent an accident. Has this left you, like many other safety professionals asking:

  • what is legally reasonable?
  • when should I halt the assessment?
  • is there any benefit in gathering more evidence - have we enough?
  • is my safety case argument sufficient and am I being “ACARP” – as confident as reasonably practicable?
  • could the safety case be inadequate but commercial pressure tells me otherwise?
  • How do I know my safety case is inadequate?

At the ‘Safety Assessments – when is enough enough?’ seminar you will learn how to:

  • review the safety case and avoid unknowingly undermining safety
  • determine what is legally reasonable, considering the raft of interpretations
  • capture, manage, validate and re-validate your ‘assumptions’ in achievable steps
  • identify key safety issues in the operational workforce and improve the safety record
  • produce an adequate safety case argument whilst being “ACARP” – a confident as reasonably practicable 
  • identify if your safety case would stand up in court.

Programme at a glance

08:30Registration and refreshments
09:05Chairman’s welcome and introduction
Tim Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Critical Systems, University of York
09:10Regulatory issues in functional safety
John Brazendale, Head of Unit, Electrical, Control Systems and Process Safety, Health & Safety Executive
09:50Case study
Safety case – points scoring evidence for COTS schemes
Andrew Eaton, Policy Officer and National Requirements Specialist, CAA
10:30Morning refreshments
11:00What is a sufficient safety case?
Tim Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Critical Systems, University of York
11:40How assumptions can undermine safety
Andy Shore, Independent Safety Practitioner
12:20Lunch
13:20An end user's speculation on when is enough, enough?
Peter Wyman, Corporate Engineer - Process Control Systems, Generation and Renewables, RWE npower
14:00"ALARP" – the impossible dream in pursuit of the indefinable standard!
Alan Fisher, Solicitor, Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP
14:50Afternoon refreshments
15:20Proactive safety through ‘day 2 day’ safety surveys
Anne Isaac, Head of Human Performance in External Safety, NATS
16:00Open panel session
17:00Close

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Cost

 Individual3 for 2 offer
Member£319.00£638.00
Non - member£399.00£798.00
Student£120.00 


All prices above exclude VAT at 17.5%. 

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