Managing In-Service Inspection: The Intelligent Customer Role

Name: Managing In-Service Inspection: The Intelligent Customer Role
Start: 2015-12-01T09:00:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

01 December 2015
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Overview

The HSE have identified the “intelligent customer” as being a significant factor in successfully managing inspection bodies examining the primary containment of hazardous materials.

The investigations recently undertaken appear to show that companies with the necessary expertise and understanding of their plant are much better able to organise, plan and react to these examinations than those less well provided.

The result is that the plants are more likely to continue to operate safely than those where this expertise and understanding is missing. Recently published documents provide guidance on how companies should act as intelligent customers and this event is intended to build on that advice.

Attend this event and discover:

• What is required to be an “intelligent customer” of inspection services and to be able to use that knowledge to improve the relationship between plant operators and inspection service providers.
• How to develop their expertise in the management of Ageing Plant and thus increase their rating in of associated HSE audits
• A better understanding of what is required when acting as a “customer” of services provided by inspection organisations
• Knowledge on what the HSE Ageing Plant initiative is showing about the management of primary containment inspection

Day 1

09:00 - Full Day Programme

09:00
REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:30
CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Robin Luxmoore, Member Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

09:40
PLANT AGEING: THE COMAH COMPETENT AUTHORITY’S CURRENT PRIORITIES
Stuart Pointer, Team Leader Mechanical Engineering, Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE

• An update on the Ageing Plant programme
• Making the demonstration
• Evidencing decisions through engineering rationale

10:10
RESPONSIBILITIES AND COMMUNICATION
Richard Hulmes, Chief Executive, SAFed

• Legal responsibilities
• Communication - understanding who does what
• Reducing risk/safer site/examples

10:40
WORKING WITH YOUR ENGINEER SURVEYOR
Richard Fairhurst, Principal Engineer (Pressure Systems), Zurich Engineering

• Communication between client and surveyor
• Scheduling of information supplied by client
• Examination requirements (different perceptions)

11:10
NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:40
ENGAGING A THIRD PARTY FOR INSPECTION SERVICES: A VIEW FROM EITHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
Jean Martin, Managing Director, InSite Technical Services

• What does the Plant Operator need from a third party?
• What does a third party Inspector need from the Plant Operator?
• How to build a constructive relationship by understanding the responsibilities of both parties

12:10
PANEL SESSION

Speakers include:
• Robin Luxmoore, Member Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Stuart Pointer, Team Leader Mechanical Engineering, Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE
• Richard Hulmes, Chief Executive, SAFed
• Richard Fairhurst, Principal Engineer (Pressure Systems), Zurich Engineering
• Jean Martin, Managing Director, InSite Technical Services

An opportunity for delegates to put any questions forward to the morning’s presenters.

12:40
NETWORKING LUNCH

13:40
TECHNICAL SELECTION OF INSPECTION TECHNIQUES WHEN EVALUATING THE MECHANICAL INTEGRITY OF INDUSTRIAL PLANT
Andrew Vernon, Site Services Manager, Basf
• Understanding advances in techniques such as NDT
• Using new techniques in situations where validations are yet to be completed
• References and a methodology for establishing a technical justification for specific applications

14:10
DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE ON OUTSOURCING INTEGRITY
MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Paul Stanworth, HM Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety (Mechanical Engineering) Hazardous Industries Directorate, HSE

• What is an ‘intelligent customer?’
• Impartiality and independence
• Case studies

14:40
NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:10
NEW GUIDANCE ISN'T NEW REGULATION. WHY RESPONSIBLE DUTY HOLDERS CAN "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON"
Stefan Kukula, Chief Executive, EEMUA
? EEMUA develops guidance publications based on good practice within its membership, giving advice which, while improving safety and environmental performance, aims to be cost effective
? EEMUA 231 represents a pragmatic, reasonably practicable approach to Risk Based Inspection of plant containing hazardous substances which would normally comply with all relevant existing regulation
? It is not the imposition of new regulation or legislation and represents an opportunity, not a threat.

15:40
PANEL SESSION

Speakers include:
• Jean Martin, Managing Director, InSite Technical Services
• Paul Stanworth, HM Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety, Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE
• Andy Vernon, Site Services Manager, BASF
• Stefan Kukula, Chief Executive, EEMUA

An opportunity to put forward any questions to the afternoon’s presenters.

16:00
CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:10

END OF SEMINAR

• This programme is subject to change.
• The Institution is not responsible for the views or opinions expressed by individual speakers.

Paul Stanworth: HM Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety, Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE

Paul Stanworth is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer working in the Health and Safety Executive’s Chemical Industries Division. His role involves providing engineering support to regulatory inspections and investigations, particularly those carried out as part of HSE’s Ageing Plant work stream at major hazard sites subject to the COMAH regulations. Paul acted as the chair of the
working group, with members from SAFed, EEMUA and HSE, which produced the industry guidance on integrity management that is to be discussed at this seminar.

Robin Luxmoore: Chair - Chemical, Oil and Gas Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Robin Luxmoore graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham in 1967 and then completed a Graduate Apprenticeship at Ruston and Hornsby in Lincoln. A postgraduate at Bath University was followed by a spell working on heat transfer with The Nuclear Power Group and then as a Field Inspector with Qualitest Engineering Services. Robin then spent fifteen years working in the nuclear industry on the development of remote handling equipment; first with BNFL at Sellafield and then with Remote Marine Systems Ltd based in West Cumbria. He then moved to Teesside to work for Tioxide and then freelance in the pressure equipment field. His last job before retirement was to work as part of a large UKAS Accredited in-house inspection team providing services to a major company in the petrochemicals processing field. Since retirement Robin has continued to work in pressure equipment inspection but as a consultant to a number of organisations running their own in-house teams.

Stuart Pointer: Team Leader Mechanical Engineering, Hazardous Installations Directorate, HSE

Stuart Pointer is a Principal Specialist Inspector in the Health and Safety Executive’s Chemical Industries Division. He currently manages a team of field inspectors responsible for inspection and investigation work at onshore chemical and petrochemical facilities. In addition, Stuart is responsible for divisional policy on mechanical engineering matters. Prior to his current role Stuart held positions in HSE’s headquarters as an operational field specialist.

Richard Hulmes: CEO, SAFED

Richard Hulmes is a chartered engineer and lawyer, currently Chief Executive of the Safety Assessment Federation, the trade association representing the independent inspection industry. Previously a Colonel in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, responsible for the management of defence equipment, and safety of munitions. Currently represents BSI on ISO Committees, Chair BSI CAS 1, member of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service Policy Committee, and the Electrical Safety Council.

Richard Fairhurst: Principal Engineer (Pressure Systems), A Zurich Engineering

Richard Fairhurst is a Principal Engineer (Pressure Systems) with Zurich Engineering, providing and managing technical support to the Engineer Surveyors. He joined Zurich in 2007 as an Engineer Surveyor, progressing to Senior Engineer in 2013. Prior to 2007, Richard worked in the Engineering Department at the University of Salford, following completion of a degree and MSc in 1995.

Jean Martin: Managing Director, Insite Technical Services

Jean Martin is a Chartered mechanical engineer with 23 years’ experience in fuels refining. Held key roles in the areas of operations, energy & environment, reliability, inspection and project engineering. Jean worked at Milford Haven Refinery till December 2014, as Engineering Manager, she was responsible for Inspection as well as Project Design and Construction. In her previous role as head of the UKAS accredited Inspection Body she was the Competent person for the refinery and delivered inspection services to ensure PSSR and COMAH regulatory requirements were met. She has worked on improving systems and processes and delivering results. Strong technical and commercial background with experience of managing the interface with the regulator. In January 2015, she became Managing Director at InSite Technical Services, providing consultancy services in the areas of inspection, reliability, operational trouble-shooting and project engineering. InSite is a company founded by members of the former Milford Haven Refinery’s engineering and management team, with experience of managing plant integrity on a top tier COMAH site.

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