Established since 1992, EPSC continues to be the ultimate process safety network for the process industries. 2017 has been a special year for EPSC – not only was it our 25th anniversary but also the year in which EPSC reorganized to a fully independent entity registered in Brussels and run exclusively by its membership for its members.
EPSC will continue to promote the sharing of best practice in process safety as well as run an innovative technical program. Twice yearly technical steering committee meetings give all full members access to the industry's top experts and managers in the field in a relaxed but strictly confidential environment. Subjects of particular importance and relevance will continue to be developed in working groups to which all members can freely participate.
In the coming years, EPSC will continue to play the role of expertise reference point for the EU concerning the development of process safety related guidelines and regulations. Carefully selected participation in the most relevant public events and conferences will also continue to assure the sector's most important process safety topics are on the agenda.
The EPSC remains an organization run on a lean & highly cost-effective basis resulting in modest fees that represent excellent value for money. We hope to be able to welcome you to our 2018 program. Please find below some highlights of current activities.
Technical Steering Team meetings
Held twice yearly, normally at members' facilities. The ultimate process safety technical event, with top level presentations and providing a unique opportunity to share experience across sectors. The spring 2017 TSC was held at Centrica in London, and the autumn 2017 TSC at Johnson & Johnson in Belgium.
A variety of working groups are always up and running on key topics. Do you miss your most important process safety topic? We invite you to put it on our agenda!
- Pharma: Active networking meetings, best practice on spray drying with more in the pipeline
- Semi Quantitative Risk Analysis: active networking meetings, benchmarking risk matrix and LOPA practice, best practices in development
- Loading-Unloading: an almost forgotten area of process safety getting the attention it needs
- RAST: process safety innovation – EPSC works with partners on a unique, semi-automated risk assessment tool revolutionizing accuracy and consistency of risk assessments
- The Human Performance: members have indicated the need for best practices in this crucial area. Expertise is being gathered and shared in this new working group.
Learning from incidents using the new EPSC Learning Sheet initiative
- EPSC Learning sheet is a new initiative to stimulate awareness on process safety. For this, typical incidents are discussed in a way that operating units improve the understand on the industrial best practices to avoid such incidents.
Conferences
- Big Data conference at Dechema organized together with CCPS –process safety innovation.
- WCCE conference in Barcelona – two days of Process Safety workshops
- EPSC joined the Prague World Corrosion conference.