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SAF€RA, the ERA-NET coordinating industrial safety research in Europe, held its first symposium in Berlin, Germany, on March 10-11, 2014.
Ulrich Panne, President of BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, in opening the symposium pointed to BAM’s mission which is Safety in Technology and Chemistry. Detlef Dauke, General Director of the Division Innovation, IT and Communications Policies of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy welcomed some 75 experts from all across Europe representing in a well balanced distribution industry, research institutions, organizations and authorities. He addressed German government’s interest in industrial safety and pointed strongly to the relevance of research for innovation.
Twenty lectures in four sessions highlighted recent achievements and urgent needs. The topics covered A) New technologies in improving safety, B) Safety culture, C) Comparative performance of different regulation regimes, and D) SAF€RA joint programming.
Nils Rosmüller of TNO, The Netherlands, presented the results of a questionnaire that aimed to make clear what innovations in the transportation domain may appear and in what timeframe, and what the expected safety consequences might be. The preparation for these safety consequences was presented by Helmut Wenzel, VCE-Holding, Austria. In civil engineering good progress is achieved in modelling the behaviour of bridges and identifying associated risks. These findings need to be further developed in other sectors of civil engineering and introduced to standardization. Biogas is increasingly receiving attention as an alternative source of energy. Olivier Guerrini, Gaz de France, provided an integrated approach to deal with new safety and risk perception aspects of biogas production. He focused on the key perspectives in terms of recommendations and additional research to be conducted in order to gain an integrated vision of risks on the field of biogas. In a review, Eric Marsden of the French Foundation for an industrial safety culture pointed to collective learning from incidents and accidents. This was a topic several speakers extended on. It became evident that identical terms have different meanings in different sectors. Here a normative approach is needed. An inspector’s approach to industrial safety was presented by Minna Päivinen of TUKES, the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency. She balanced the roles of the experts, the public and the authorities. She concluded in pointing to the benefit of mutual trust and sharing of good practices, leaving room for challenges coming from varying cultures of multinational companies, and new products and technologies. This led to compare the performance of different regulation regimes. Preben Hempel Lindoe, University of Stavanger, Norway, elaborated on the experience gained from offshore oil and gas operations.
In the last session of the symposium, successful proposals in the first joint SAF€RA call on Human and organizational factors including the value of industrial safety were presented and some early information on the second joint call was provided.
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The proceedings can be downloadedhere or in the active agenda hereunder.
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OPENING CEREMONY
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Welcome addresses by
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, President of the BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
Detlef Dauke, General Director of the Division Innovation, IT and Communications Policies, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Sébastien Mortier, Research Programme Officer, European Commission
Olivier Salvi, General Secretary Cross-European Technology Platform- Initiative on Industrial Safety (ETPIS)
Carita Aschan, SAF€RA Project Coordinator
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SESSION A
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN IMPROVING SAFETY
Chairperson: Johan Gort, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Netherlands
How to get safety higher on the agenda
Tom Schalenbourg, Toyota Material Handling Europe, Belgium
New technologies for safe transport systems
Nils Rosmuller, The Netherlands Organization for Applied
Scientific Research TNO, The Netherlands
Safety in civil engineering
Helmut Wenzel, VCE-Holding, Austria
Integrated approach to deal with new safety and risk
perception aspects of biogas production
Olivier Guerrini, Gaz de France, France
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SESSION B
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SAFETY CULTURE
Chairperson: Valerio Cozzani, Università di Bologna, Italy
Review: Collective learning from incidents
Eric Marsden, Fondation pour une culture de sécurité industrielle, France
Experience of inspectors looking at safety culture
Minna Päivinen, Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency Tukes, Finland
Experience from the chemical industry
Richard Gowland, European Process Safety Centre, UK
Experience Cultural factors in occupational safety and health
Dietmar Elsler, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Cultural factors in maritime accidents
Anne Ala-Pöllänen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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SESSION C
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COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT REGULATION REGIMES
Chairperson: Henk Vanhoutte, European Safety Federation
Key Note: Comparison of risk regulation regimes and challenges with
soft law approaches – experience from offshore oil and gas operations
Preben Hempel Lindøe, University of Stavanger, Norway
How can regulators learn?
Supporting standardization for smart textiles
Karin Eufinger, Belgian Textile Research Centre, Belgium
Knowing the ‘state of safety’, practical approaches
for industry and safety authorities
Jakko van Kampen, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Netherlands
GREEN-SAFETY - More than safety for bionanoproducts
Eusebio Gainza Lafuente, Biopraxis Pharmaceutical, Spain
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SESSION D
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SAF€RA JOINT PROGRAMMING
Chairperson: Carita Aschan, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
About SAF€RA and SAF€RA’s 2013 joint call
Human and organizational factors including the value of industrial safety
Carita Aschan/Minna Huuskonen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
PRESENTATION OF SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS
- Value of Safety (VaLoSa)
Henriikka Ratilainen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
- Socio Technical safety Assessment within
Risk Regulation Regimes (STARS)
Teemu Reiman, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Success in the face of uncertainty: human resilience and
the accident risk bow-tie
Linda Bellamy, White Queen BV, The Netherlands
- Training for Operational Resilience Capabilities (TORC)
Tor Olav Grøtan, Stiftelsen SINTEF
- Experience in the process of matching the two project proposals ‘Improving resilience in waste transports’ and ‘Design and
development of a simulation tool for decision making in
the management of health and safety based on Resilience
Engineering, to promote a safety culture change process, in MSW treatment companies (ASSESS-RE-TOOL)’
Pia Perttula, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland, and Juan Carlos Rubio Romero, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
SAF€RA 2014 joint call on Innovating in safety and safe innovations
Carita Aschan and Minna Huuskonen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
Future beyond SAF€RA
Olivier Salvi, Cross European Technology Platforms Initiative
on Industrial Safety (ETPIS)
Integrated Health, Safety & Environment (HS&E) Process for continuous
improvement
David S.W. Tjong, Ideal Standard International, Belgium
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