SYNOPSIS

This technical short talk will covers the fundamental and concept of static electricity which could be potential risk to the chemical hazard industries environment. It will explain why static control is an important risk element in the chemical industries for plant owners and pose hazard risk anticipation to the operators. An explanation of the basic theory of static hazard by reviewing; what & why the static generation can happen and where & how the discharge can induce hazard in plant operation. Some risk control measures and mitigation plans will be discussed how to alleviate this static hazard. In order to understand this subject thoroughly, some learnt case study will be used as a sharing aids for better explanation and open floor discussions during the talks.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Lam Sing Yew run his own electrical consultancy in risk management practice for area in electrical field of reliability maintenance practice, asset service life cycle (ASL) analysis, ‘Ex’ equipment auditor, electrical incident investigator, power quality auditor and field energy optimisation management.
He has acquired more than 25 years of engineering field practice experience in project construction management and field inspection for aviation facilities, oil & gas and petrochemical sectors. In addition, he has carried out many electrical safety incident investigations due to maintenance and/or equipment faults by facilitating the Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) methodology approach.

He is specialised in electrical energy management and power quality field from his postgraduate study from University of Putra Malaysia (UPM) by graduating with MSc (Electrical Power Engineering) in 2003 and also obtained his first bachelor’s degree qualification from University of Leicester, United Kingdom in BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronics in year 1995.

He has attained his local Professional Engineers with Certificate of Practice  (Electrical) since in year 2000 with Board of Engineers Malaysia and also Charted Engineer (C.Eng) with Engineering Council (UK) in year 2001 and also legally registered in his own country engineering certificate practice. He is the Fellow Members of Institution Engineers Malaysia.