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| Keynote | | | Seminar Description:
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. CSB investigations look into all aspects of chemical accidents, including physical causes such as equipment failure as well as inadequacies in safety management systems, regulations, and industry standards. The CSB investigative staff includes chemical and mechanical engineers, industrial safety experts, and other specialists with experience in the private and public sectors.
A Chemical Safety Board Member has been invited to discuss investigative findings from some of the most recent accidents. The Board currently has 15 investigations open throughout the United States, and over half of these involve accidents at oil refineries. Some of the most recent accidents under investigation include the Silver Eagle Refinery explosion in Utah, Caribbean Petroleum Refining tank explosion in Puerto Rico, Tesoro Refinery Hydrocarbon fire in Utah, and the CITGO Refinery Hydrofluoric Acid release and fire in Corpus Christi. | | | | |
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| Track 1: Fire | | | Seminar Description:
This session will take a look at a few case studies of facilities developing or revising fire protection, based on the specific hazards in the area to be protected while addressing environmental issues. | | | | |
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Global industrial combustible dust explosions and fires in the manufacturing, non-manufacturing, and utility sectors are a constant threat in the workplace. In contrast, vapor cloud explosion in the chemical and refinery sectors have similar damaging effects as combustible dust explosions. A basic understanding of the dynamics of vapor cloud explosions assists stakeholders in understanding the initiating mechanisms of dust explosions. The educational session will provide attendees a fundamental overview in the explosion severity and ignition sensitivity of dust explosions and vapor cloud explosions, which have the same explosive damaging after effects of overpressure, thermal radiation, and ensuing projectiles. | | | | |
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We will take a look at case studies involving Hydro Fluoric Acid incidents within refineries from the emergency responders point of view and how they affected actions inside and outside the fence line. In addition, we will review the El Dorado Chemical Plant Incident in Bryan, TX and the details of the associated community evacuation. | | | | |
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NFPA 1851 was developed to help reduce the safety risks and potential health risks of the fire fighters. NFPA 1851 provides the minimum criteria for the development and implementation of a Program for the selection, care and maintenance, storage, and retirement of PPE. This session will be a review of the NFPA 1851 requirements and an explanation of why these requirements were developed. | | | | |
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The session will look at developments in the foam and extinguishing systems technologies. We will review the logistical advantages of new foams, and alternatives to traditional extinguishing systems. | | | | |
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On Saturday, July 19, 2008 a 30-story-tall crane, capable of lifting 1 million pounds, fell over at a LyondellBasell refinery in southeast Houston. Four lives were claimed in the crane collapse. This crane is one of the nation's largest mobile cranes. Those responsible for organizing and leading the response to this crane collapse will discuss the challenges presented by this incident. The focus will be on initial on-going response activities, as well as activities necessary to facilitate recovery. | | | | |
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| Track 2: Safety | | | Seminar Description:
A “just” culture promotes a blameless environment where individuals openly share their errors so all may learn. It’s a culture where it is OK for people to make an honest mistake, so long as they admit the mistake and willingly engage in helping the organization to further “error-proof” its work processes, with the intention of helping others avoid making that same or a similar mistake in the future. When something goes wrong, the focus is on what, rather than who, is the problem. The intent is to bring process weaknesses, failures, and system issues to light, and to solve them in a nonbiased, transparent, and non-threatening manner. It includes topics of accountability, human performance, and learning. | | | | |
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This session will educate the audience on the process used for amending, revising, or creating a new standard or regulation, and provide an update where the various topics stand in the process. Representatives from OSHA and industry will discuss the issuance of revised or new federal occupational safety and health standards. | | | | |
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A representative from OSHA's Houston office will cover the top 10 regulatory violations, comparing national and regional statistics. Each year OSHA publishes the most frequently cited Top Ten Violations which represent frequently identified hazards found by OSHA inspectors. In addition, frequently cited standards can be searched on the OSHA website by specific industry. Learn what requirements you may need to review to ensure a safe workplace. | | | | |
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OSHA requires owners/operators of PSM covered processes to pre-approve and manage contractor performance. This presentation will cover a pre-approval process, management process, and site expectations of contractors at a large manufacturing facility. | | | | |
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In this session we will discuss heat related emergencies, signs and symptoms, and emergency treatment. | | | | |
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| Track 3: Security | | | Seminar Description:
NLE 09 was the first federally-managed prevention exercise. Held throughout FEMA Region VI, the exercise focused on intelligence gathering, assessment, and information sharing. This seminar focuses on lessons learned in the Houston-Texas City-Port Arthur areas. | | | | |
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This session will provide an overview of MTSA, TWIC and BZPP regulations. Industry compliance with MTSA and TWIC is very good but varies with level of achievement. Also, we will attempt to correct industry's misunderstandings of the BZPP program and outline the benefits to industry and local government associated with the risk assessment completed during the process and the options for consideration to mitigate the risks identified. We will try to present some of the best practices developing in the area. | | | | |
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Now in their third year, the Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) continue to evolve. Several thousand facilities have submitted a Site Security Plan (SSP) to DHS. Requiring regulated facilities to account for the applicable Risk-Based Performance Standards that address everything from physical security to recordkeeping, the SSP represents the most significant aspect of the CFATS regulatory program. This presentation will provide an update on CFATS – and offer practical and timely considerations for compliance. | | | | |
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This session will review the impact of gang activity. | | | | |
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This session is designed to acquaint private sector security officers with the essential components used to construct an improvised explosive device. The instructor is an FBI Special Agent/ Bomb Tech and he will demonstrate how common electrical components found in the home or office can be used to construct an explosive device. | | | | |
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This session will address the need for information sharing. We will discuss suspicious activity reporting and dissemination of information to persons with the "need to know." An overview is provided, through three case studies, of the concerns regarding terrorism and our current threat environment, and how awareness, information sharing and intelligence development add to a successful security strategy. | | | | |
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| Track 4: Emergency Management | | | Seminar Description:
This session will address the development, organization and deployment of the state of Texas Type III Incident Management Teams and the inclusion and interface with industry. | | | | |
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This session will cover planning for a mutual aid response to multiple simultaneous events. We will discuss drilling and exercising for responses to multiple events. | | | | |
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Speakers from the public and private sectors will discuss how pandemics, such as H1N1, have impacted business continuity. Learn how the public health sector responded to recent pandemic concerns and lessons learned. The private sector will discuss the challenges associated with planning for such events. | | | | |
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This will be an information sharing session relating three case studies of public-private sector emergency management partnerships from the States of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana. These case studies will relate actual incidents and how public and private sector emergency responders partnered during response and recovery efforts. | | | | |
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This session covers development and implementation of systems for notifying facility personnel of an incident and accurately accounting for them. Discussions will include modern technology in facility access control and management of the information it provides. | | | | |
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Post-incident recovery can potentially be a costly and long-term operation that can drastically limit a facility's economic viability. Learn ways to plan, prepare, and implement short and long term recovery plans than can enhance your readiness and capabilities. | | | | |
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