All Safety/HSE


Plant safety

Guaranteeing maximum plant safety

Added: 14 Jul 2015

Endress+Hauser’s expertise guarantees you maximum safety and maximum availability of your plant. 

Gas detector

Fixed-point gas detector

Added: 8 Jul 2015

Gas detection firm Crowcon Detection Instruments has launched the XgardIQ. 

GE

Onsite calibration: doing more with less

Added: 3 Jul 2015

GE’s onsite calibration guide is designed to help process engineers understand why they need to cal…

Boiler

Biomass boilers: what are the boiling points?

Added: 1 Jul 2015

With maintenance issues and capital costs causing concern, Robert Smith finds out whether biomass b…

Cuadrilla site

Split planning decision for Blackpool shale

Added: 16 Jun 2015

Lancashire County Council planning officers yesterday recommended that one of Cuadrilla’s proposed …

Offshore oil rig

Offshore uncertainty is raising safety concerns

Added: 10 Jun 2015

Low oil prices and a major slump in production are creating major safety concerns within the UK’s o…

Gas detection

Have a safe summer

Added: 3 Jun 2015

So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.

Dust explosion short course at the Wolfson Centre

New hazards: COMAH 2015

Added: 3 Jun 2015

The introduction of new COMAH regulations will see many smaller firms affected by the rules for the…

HIPPS

High value HIPPS

Added: 28 May 2015

British valves manufacturers specialise in high quality valves for demanding industrial application…

Robot

Smart factory

Added: 26 May 2015

Machines will have something to say in the process plant of the future, writes Louisa Hearn.

Oil rig

Shale could 'learn' from offshore safety

Added: 22 May 2015

Emerging industries could learn process safety lessons from more mature sectors such as offshore oi…

CMSE

Become a machinery safety expert

Added: 5 May 2015

The TUV Nord-Pilz Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE) qualification is one of the foremost int…

Dounreay birds eye view

Amec FW wins nuclear decommissioning role

Added: 16 Apr 2015

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide d…

JD hoist

Hoists handle offshore seawater pumps

Added: 8 Apr 2015

When the seawater pump on an offshore rig needed replacing, an air hoist supplied by materials hand…

BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010

North Sea emergency simulated

Added: 24 Mar 2015

The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…

Buncefield fire

Safety: a ticking timebomb

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

Buncefield2

Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Judith Hackitt

Don’t dismiss process safety

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Hundreds of safety incidents still occur every year in the process industries, showing that old les…

Cyber security

Shell squares up to cyber threat

Added: 4 Mar 2015

Yokogawa has paired up with IT systems supplier Cisco Systems to roll out a new global cyber-securi…

ICheME hazard event

Process safety event for high hazard industries

Added: 24 Feb 2015

The Institution of Chemical Engineer’s (IChemE’s) leading process safety event for the high hazard …