Tentative Program for Symposium on Process Safety:

 

December 19, 2013
8:30 9:00 Registration
9:00 9:30 Opening
9:30 10:15 Historical Development of PSM and its Present Perspective Prof. Sam Mannan (Texas A & M Univ)
10:15 10:45 Tea
10:45 11:30 Process Safety in Indian Hydrocarbon Sector - Successes & Further Opportunities Mr. Hirak Datta (OISD)
11:30 12:15 Monitoring Process Safety Performance Dr. G. Jayaraman (Essar Oil)
12:15 13:00 Process Safety – A Practical Approach in Oil & Gas Industry Dr. Hugo Vits (Shell)
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Panel "Best Practices in Process Industries" Mr. Hirak Datta, Prof. Mannan, Dr. Hugo Vits, Dr. Jayaraman, Mr. Vishwanathan
15:30 16:00 Tea
16:00 17:30 Fundamental of Process Safety - 1 Prof. Sam Mannan (Texas A&M Univ)
17:30 19:00 Networking
19:00   Symposium Dinner
 
December 20, 2013
9:00 9:45 Inherent Occupational Health Assessment in Chemical Process Development and Design Prof. Mimi Haryani Hassim (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
9:45 10:30 Development of Methodologies for Risk assessment - Accomplishments and Challenges Prof. S.A.Abbasi (Pondicherry Univ)
10:30 11:00 Tea
11:00 11:45 Common Errors in Conducting HAZOP, SIL, HAZID Studies Mr. G. Vishwanathan (Former IPCL)
11:45 12:45 Contributed Papers Session  
11:45 12:05 Process Safety – Barrier Management Mr. Nageswara Rao (Shell)
12:05 12:25 Domino Effect and its Assessment Prof. Tasneem Abbasi (Pondicherry University)
12:25 12:45 Implementing PSM in India - Challenges and Opportunities Mr. Mahesh Deshpande(Cholamandalam MS Risk Services)
12:45 14:00 Lunch
14:00 16:30 Fundamental of Process Safety - 2 Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan (IITGN)