All Safety/HSE

Fixed-point gas detector
Added: 8 Jul 2015
Gas detection firm Crowcon Detection Instruments has launched the XgardIQ.
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…
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…

Split planning decision for Blackpool shale
Added: 16 Jun 2015
Lancashire County Council planning officers yesterday recommended that one of Cuadrilla’s proposed …

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…

Have a safe summer
Added: 3 Jun 2015
So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.

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…
High value HIPPS
Added: 28 May 2015
British valves manufacturers specialise in high quality valves for demanding industrial application…
Smart factory
Added: 26 May 2015
Machines will have something to say in the process plant of the future, writes Louisa Hearn.

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…

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…

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…

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…
North Sea emergency simulated
Added: 24 Mar 2015
The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…
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…

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…

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…
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…

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 …

Cogent and Skills Academy merge
Added: 17 Feb 2015
Sector skills group Cogent is merging with the National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) a…