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Tuesday, 28 February 2023
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08:30
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Registration and refreshments
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09:00
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Chair’s opening remarks
Pete Stewart, Professional Head of Discipline, Atkins and Chair, IMechE Safety and Reliability Group WG2
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Industry case studies demonstrating ALARP
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09:10
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Ensuring Favourable Vehicle Safety Outcomes by Addressing Risk Profiles Through the TfL Bus Safety Standard
Benedikt Koning, Senior Engineer - Road and Surface Vehicles, Transport for London
- Identifying London bus related Vulnerable Road User (VRU) risk profiles
- Developing and identifying safety features to mitigate risks appropriately
- Working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful implementation
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09:40
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ALARP vs ALoS: The role of the Civil Aviation Authority as the state regulator
Ray Forster, Regulatory Safety Management System Lead, Safety Performance, Civil Aviation Authority
- Explaining the evolution of the regulatory approach to industry safety risk management
- The Key Risk Area approach and assessment of ALoS
- How we connect regulatory safety risk management to oversight of industry, and the connection between ALoS and ALARP
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10:10
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Practical ALARP Thinking in a Hydrogen Context
Speaker to be announced
- Identifying risks associated with hydrogen
- Demonstrating ALARP to minimise risk and improve safety across hydrogen networks
- Working collaboratively with industry and regulators
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Human factors and ALARP: Practical Thinking
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10:40
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Networking refreshment break
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11:10
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Human Factors Safety Critical Tasks Analysis (SCTA) & ALARP
Dominic Furniss, Senior Human Factors Consultant, Human Reliability Associates
- Focusing on critical tasks that have the most human performance related risk
- Identifying risk and predicting human failure within critical tasks
- Making interventions and managing human performance risks with ALARP
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11:40
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Case Study on Exploding Capacitors
Representation from AEGIS Engineering Systems Limited
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12:10
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Panel Discussion: Improvements & Innovation to support Human Factors in ALARP
Steve Corner, SHEQ Systems and Safety Standards Manager, BOC Gases
- Current thinking around HF and ALARP
- How technology can improve safety and reduce risk
- Future thinking around HF and what it means for ALARP
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12:40
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Networking lunch
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Working together to strengthen the ALARP principle
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13:40
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ALARP for Engineers; a Brief Explanation
Keith Miller, Member, IMechE Safety and Reliability Group
- Why we needed new guidance on ALARP
- Why risk cannot be quantified
- How to undertake a legally compliant risk assessment
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14:00
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Panel discussion: Working Together to Progress ALARP Guidance and Thinking
David Glass, Mechanical Engineering Team Lead - Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division, Health and Safety Executive
Ryan Maitland, Superintending Inspector - Nuclear Safety, Professional Lead – Fault Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulation.
- Collaboration to ensure ALARP is followed
- Understanding the needs of different industries
- Meeting existing needs and future requirements from a regulatory perspective
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14:30
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Legal Implications for the Application of ALARP
Anne Davies, Partner, FisherBroyles LLP
- Defining the requirements for demonstration of ALARP in a legal setting
- Investigating legal precedent and its ramifications for establishing best practice
- Examining the impacts of technological developments in a legal context
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15:00
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Networking refreshment break
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Innovation and technological advancements
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15:30
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Showcasing the Benefits of on-the-go Technology to Enhance Fire Safety Standards
Robert Norton, UK Team Lead, PlanRadar
- How ALARP was interpreted on a recent project
- Reducing our exposure to regulatory and legal penalties and identifying where you often seen the gaps relating to fire risk assessments
- Trying to change the mindset in organisations to ensure a better embedding of fire risk assessments and their consequent implementation
- Understanding expectations in the market around information management systems and around safety management systems and how those systems will manage building safety risks
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16:00
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A Low Technology Approach to Improving Healthcare Safety
Simon Dodds, Healthcare Systems Engineer, SAASoft
- An overview of the project
- Taking a system’s engineering approach including Process design, Human factors, Objective measurement and Contact – Method - Observation (CMO)
- Results and lessons learned
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16:30
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Chair’s closing remarks
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16:45
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End of seminar
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