International Conference on Safety, 2014

Program Overview

Day 1: 3 Dec 2014


Time

Event

Venue

8:30

Registration

 

9:00 –  9:30

Welcome & Opening Address

                Mr. VB Sant, Director General, National Safety Council

Shed 3 - 225

9:30 – 10:30

Plenary 1: Prof. Dinesh Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

                Safety as a Fundamental Human Right

Shed 3 - 225

10:30 – 11:00

Tea & Networking

 

11:00 – 12:00

Plenary 2: Mr. RA Venkitachalam, Underwriters Laboratories

Towards enhancing Public Safety in India – Need to Develop Safety Science

Shed 3 - 225

12:00 – 13:00

Plenary 3: Prof. Sam Mannan, Texas A&M University

The Future of Process Safety Management from Industry, Government, and Academic Point of View

Shed 3 - 225

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 – 15:30

Parallel Sessions

Shed 3

1.       Process Monitoring & Alarm Management [KEYNOTE]

Room 225

2.       Process Safety

Room 226

3.       Risk Analysis & Mitigation

Room 201

15:30 – 16:00

Tea & Networking

 

16:00 – 17:30

Parallel Sessions

Shed 3

4.       Safety in Design [KEYNOTE]

Room 225

5.       Emerging Topics – I

Room 226

6.       Process Safety Management [KEYNOTE]

Room 201

18:45

Cultural Program by Gandhinagar Panghat Kala Kendra

L Block Lawns

20:00

Conference Dinner & Networking

Day 2: 4 Dec 2014


Time

Event

Venue

8:30

Registration

 

9:00 – 10:00

Plenary 4: Prof. Dan Crowl, Michigan Technological University

                My Unexpected Journey into Process Safety

Shed 3 - 225

10:00 – 11:00

Plenary 5: Prof. Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University

                Designing Concrete Structures for Fire Safety

Shed 3 - 225

11:00 – 11:30

Tea & Networking

 

11:30 – 13:00

Parallel Sessions

Shed 3

7.       Emergency & Disaster Management [KEYNOTE]

Room 225

8.       Fire Safety – I

Room 226

9.       Safety Culture [KEYNOTE]

Room 201

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 – 15:30

Parallel Sessions

Shed 3

10.   Best Practices [KEYNOTE]

Room 225

11.   Fire Safety – II

Room 226

12.   Emerging Topics – II

Room 201

15:30 – 16:00

Tea & Networking

 


Detailed Program – Parallel Sessions


3 Dec 2014, 14:00 – 15:30

Session 1: Process Monitoring & Alarm Management                                                  Venue: Shed 3, Room 225

Session Chair: Dr. Babji Srinivasan (IIT Gandhinagar)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by Dr. Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Diagnostics for Safe Process Operations - Trends, Gaps and Perspectives

61

Chandresh Sharma, Punit Bhavsar, Babji Srinivasan and Rajagopalan Srinivasan (IIT Gandhinagar)

Cognitive Studies in Process Control using Eye Gaze Tracking

31

Gurumoorthy Vishwanathan (Indian Petrochemicals Corporation)

Alarms Management in Hydrocarbon plants

75

Kallol Roy (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

Sensor Uncertainty, Error Budgeting & EMI Aspects in Design,  Calibration & Ageing Management of  Safety Class Instrumentation

Session 2: Process Safety                                                                                                  Venue: Shed 3, Room 226

Session Chair: Dr. Hyuckmyun Kwon (OS & H Research Institute Korea)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

22

Prashant Srivastava and Shishir Sinha

 (IIT Roorkee)

Event tree analysis of ethylene release from ethylene vaporization unit

29

Vaishali Umrigar and Kartik Gonawala

(SCET, Surat)

Treatment of Ferric compounds to Produce Ferrous Sulphate as an Alternative to Waste Disposal

36

Sabyasachi Behera (CITE, Rourkela)

Safety in Chemical Industries

79

Aditya Samant and Rajagopalan Srinivasan (IIT Gandhinagar)

Identifying Patterns in CSB Accident Investigations using Text Mining

Session 3: Risk Analysis & Mitigation                                                                              Venue: Shed 3, Room 201

Session Chair: Dr. Atul Bhargav (IIT Gandhinagar)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

18

Ankur Kumar (Institute of Disaster Management and Fire Science)

Occupational Risks in Electronics Manufacturing Industry and Controls thereof

38

Sandip Roy (IIT Bombay)

Determining Individual Public Risk Acceptance Criteria: An Economic Model

26

Debi Prasad Tripathy (NIT Rourkela)

Safety Risk Analysis and Management Techniques in Coal Mines

51

Saeed Nazari, Noraddin G, Najmeh K & Masoom Nazari (Ardabil University of Medical Sciences)

Risk based maintenance (RBM) modeling of petrochemical industry using FAHP- Delphi techniques

3 Dec 2014, 16:00 – 17:30

Session 4: Safety in Design                                                                                               Venue: Shed 3, Room 225

Session Chair: Dr. Raghunathan Rengaswamy (IIT Madras)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by Sri. Anil Sawant,

Adviser Technical, National Safety Council

Screening tools and Calorimetric techniques for designing safer process involving hazardous chemicals

76

R. Shankar (Hospira)

Embedding Safety in Design to build a Sustainable Safety Culture

68

Madhu K, Babji Srinivasan, Rajagopalan Srinivasan (IIT Gandhinagar)

Towards the Development of An Operator Cognitive Assessment Model For Process Control Applications

50

Anandita Sengupta, Maureen Wood, Anne Van Der Veen, Debanjan B & Sandip Roy (University of Twente, Netherlands)

Introducing risk assessment into landuse planning process in context of developing country - Challenges of rehabilitation

Session 5: Emerging Topics – I                                                                                         Venue: Shed 3, Room 226

Session Chair: Dr. Dinesh Mohan (IIT Delhi)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

12

Ajai Banerji (Retired Professional)

A Study of Major Indian Aviation Disasters

15

Debasis Sarkar (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University)

Evaluating Crane Safety Factors for Underground Corridor Metro Rail Construction Project

32

Abhishek Sehrawat (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi)

Improper Biomedical Engineering Knowledge in Radio Diagnosis - 7 Major Healthcare Hazards

63

Sweta Parmar, Rajagopalan Srinivasan & Babji Srinivasan (IIT Gandhinagar)

An Approach to Identify The Cognitive Load On The Operator Using Pupillometry

Session 6: Process Safety Management                                                                          Venue: Shed 3, Room 201

Session Chair: Dr. Sam Mannan (Texas A&M, USA)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by Sri. G. Vishwanathan,

Former Deputy General Manager, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation

Have we really made progress after Bhopal Gas Tragedy – Yes, of course

46

Ajay Kumar Sharma (CEIL India)

Integration of Process Safety Management with HSE Management System

53

Vipin Vishnoi (Dishan Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Ltd)

Process Safety Management

56

Sanjay Kumar Singh (Coal India Limited)

Behavior-Based Safety and Risk Management in Coal Mines: An Indian Context



4 Dec 2014, 11:30 – 13:00

Session 7: Emergency & Disaster Management                                                             Venue: Shed 3, Room 225

Session Chair: Dr. Arup Lal Chakraborty (IIT Gandhinagar)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by Dr. R K Dave,

Senior Specialist, NDMA

Crowd and Public Safety in India-A New Initiative

30

Waseem Shafi Dar  (IDMFS, Delhi)

Fire Disaster Resilience and Risk Management: A Case Study of Delhi-Gate Market District Ferozpur, Punjab

65

Ajay Kumar Gupta, Ratindra Choudhary (Reliance Industries Limited)

Emergency Management and Response Capability for Managing Risk

69

Aanandh Sb, Chinmaya Kar, Nihal Siddiqui (Honeywell Technology Solutions Bangalore and UPES, Dehradun)

Elemental & Cognitive Functional Safety in Disaster Preparedness and Management

Session 8: Fire Safety – I                                                                                                   Venue: Shed 3, Room 226

Session Chair: Dr. Venkatesh Kodur (Michigan State, USA)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

77

Atul Bhargav (IIT Gandhinagar)

Design and Construction of Hydrogen And Carbon Monoxide Safety Laboratory For Fuel Cell Systems Research

8

Nirupama Gopalaswami, Ray Mentzer and Sam Mannan (Texas A&M University)

Quantification of Turbulence in Cryogenic Liquid Pool Using High Speed Flow Visualization

59

Puneet Kumar and Gaurav Srivastava (IIT Gandhinagar)

FE Analysis of Confined Masonry Panels Subjected to Thermal Exposure

28

Pradeep Yadav (Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee)

A Mathematical Model to Study the Required Safe Evacuation Time of a Public Building During Fire

Session 9: Safety Culture                                                                                                  Venue: Shed 3, Room 201

Session Chair: Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi (IIT Gandhinagar)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by Dr. Il Moon, Professor,

Yonsei University, Korea

The change of Korean society after a big chemical dispersion accident

5

Katarzyna Warszawska and Andrzej Kraslawski

(LUT Finland & LUT Poland)

Method for Quantitative Assessment of Safety Culture

21

Dr. Anil Jain (Essar Steel India Limited)

Building a  Sustainable Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) culture in an Organization

55

Arnab Basu (ERM)

Evolution of Process Safety Management Concept (PSM) and Framework for Successful PSM Culture

4 Dec 2014, 14:00 – 15:30

Session 10: Best Practices                                                                                                 Venue: Shed 3, Room 225

Session Chair: Dr. Il Moon (Yonsei University, Korea)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

Keynote Address by  Dr. KU Mistry,

Chairman, Gujarat Pollution Control Board

Towards Zero Waste Discharge

20

Manoj Kamaliya (Reliance Industries Limited)

Process Safety - A Value Not Just a Priority

66

Ajay Kumar Gupta (Reliance Industries Limited)

Management of HTM (Highly Toxic Material)

47

Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen and Atsushi Aoyama (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Debates on safety climate and safety culture

54

Kamarizan Kidam, Markku Hurme and Hassim Mimi Haryani (UTM Malaysia and AU, Finland)

Inherently Safer Design Review at Different Stages of Chemical Process Development and Design

Session 11: Fire Safety – II                                                                                                Venue: Shed 3, Room 226

Session Chair: Dr. Gaurav Srivastava (IIT Gandhinagar)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

14

Nirupama Gopalaswami, Delphine Laboureur, Sam Mannan, Yi Lui and Bin Zhang (Texas A&M University)

Experimental Study on Propane Jet Fires

60

Ravi Prakash and Gaurav Srivastava (IIT Gandhinagar)

Development of Matrix Method for the Analysis of RCC Frames subjected to Fire

64

Shyam Barhanpurkar, Yogita Agrawal (SVITS. Indore)

Fire Retardant Fabric

23

Anoop Warrier (ICEM, Oman)

Positive Pressure Ventilation

Session 12: Emerging Topics – II                                                                                      Venue: Shed 3, Room 201

Session Chair: Dr. Sandip Roy (IIT Bombay)

ID

Authors

Title of Presentation

78

Arup Lal Chakraborty (IIT Gandhinagar)

Photonic Technologies for Safety - Physical and Chemical Sensors

13

Ajai Banerji

Possible Solutions Of The MH 370 Mystery

58

Ankita Srivastava, Bhupendra S. Butola and Abhijit Majumdar (NIFT Jodhpur and IIT Delhi)

Optimizing Parameters of Shear Thickening Fluid treated Kevlar Fabric Based Body Armor Materials

37

Unni Krishnan, Srihari Honwad and Nihal Siddiqui

(UPES Dehradun)

Functional Safety in Process Design: A Perspective

44

Syaza Izyanni Ahmad, Haslenda Hashim and Mimi Haryani Hassim (University Teknologi Malaysia)

2-Dimensional Graphical Rating as an Indicator to Inherent Safety Assessment