SYNOPSIS

Process Safety Incidents could result in large loss of lives; asset damage; environmental damage and reputation loss. Learning from the past incidents are well mentioned in many journals or articles BUT people are still struggling to learn from it hence similar incident happened. What when wrong?
Incident prevention is strongly based on learning from previous incidents either its internal or external accidents. Learn as much as possible about the causes of accidents will prevent similar accident reoccurrence.

“Hundreds of safety incidents still occur every year in the process industries, showing that old lessons still haven’t been learnt. We need to change the mindset at the very top of organizations, starting with the boardrooms” UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chairman Judith Hackitt.

The talk is intended to provide an appreciation of past process    safety incidents, identify the common underlying causes amongst the famous past process safety incidents, the lessons that have and can further be learnt, barriers that have hindered opportunities to prevent repeat events and suggested enablers to incorporate lessons into the heart of engineering.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Mohd Rizal Mohd Tajuddin is a Technical Safety Engineer with almost fifteen (15+) years of working experience, in both engineering and operations. He has worked on diverse projects in chemical industries, petrochemical industries, water treatment facilities, onshore and offshore facilities locally and internationally. He was trained as a Technical Safety cum Process Safety Engineer with PLC International, Worley Parsons, PETROFAC and PETRONAS. He was the Technical Safety Specialist of Upstream HSE, PETRONAS. He has been working with various projects starting from conceptual stage until handover and follow on to Operation and Maintenance phases with various Oil and Gas Operators BP, ExxonMobil, PETRONAS, SHELL, ConocoPhillips and Woodside. He has been seconded to various project offices including overseas assignment to Jakarta, Indonesia as well as Perth, Australia for ConocoPhillips and Woodside projects. His expertise include engineering safety, risk assessment and management, asset integrity and reliability.