Safety assessments: when is enough enough?
Date 27 April 2010
Time
08:30 - 17:00Location
IET London: Savoy Place, UK
Sponsors
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
| 08:30 | Registration and refreshments |
| 09:05 | Chairman’s welcome and introduction Tim Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Critical Systems, University of York |
| 09:10 | Regulatory issues in functional safety John Brazendale, Head of Unit, Electrical, Control Systems and Process Safety, Health & Safety Executive |
| 09:50 | Case study Safety case – points scoring evidence for COTS schemes Andrew Eaton, Policy Officer and National Requirements Specialist, CAA |
| 10:30 | Morning refreshments |
| 11:00 | What is a sufficient safety case? Tim Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Critical Systems, University of York |
| 11:40 | How assumptions can undermine safety Andy Shore, Independent Safety Practitioner |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 | An 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 |
| 14:50 | Afternoon refreshments |
| 15:20 | Proactive safety through ‘day 2 day’ safety surveys Anne Isaac, Head of Human Performance in External Safety, NATS |
| 16:00 | Open panel session |
| 17:00 | Close |
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Cost
| Individual | 3 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%.
