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News Release from: ABB Automation Tech (Instrumentation + Automation)
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Team on 02 December 2005
Safety conference draws a big crowd
Singapore is the venue for the second international safety conference following the success of the first such event held in Manchester in September.
Singapore is the venue for the second international safety conference in May 2006 following the success of the first such event held in Manchester in September The "Profit Through Safety" conference attracted over 165 delegates to hear an international speaker platform examine complex and challenging issues faced by industry, globally, in maintaining safety performance while improving profitability
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The event was organised and sponsored by automation and power technologies leader ABB.
Presentations were given by Dow Chemical Company, who described how, with the merging IEC61508; it had started to implement LOPA and certified its safety system for SIL3.
Ron Bell from the Health and Safety Executive reviewed the status of IEC61508 and IEC61511 and outlined some emerging issues with application of these standards.
Meanwhile, Tom Nobes of the British Nuclear Group noted that all the benefits of smart instruments in safety applications have been achieved at the cost of large and complex firmware inside the smart instrument.
"Complexity is traditionally considered the enemy of safety", says Nobes, who went on to describe what British Nuclear Industry has done to address this problem.
Dave Glanzer, Director Fieldbus Foundation, discussed the SIS programme which was initiated by end users to reduce the total cost of ownership by extending Foundation fieldbus benefits into plant safety systems Other speakers included Roy Lord of BSI, Jozef Laureys of Borealis, Thomas Karte of Samson and George Baradits, junior and senior.
The conference organiser, co-ordinator and Chairman Stuart Nunns said: "The event attracted a high calibre of speakers and delegates with many travelling from as far afield as India, Saudi Arabia Central and North America".
"The excellent presentations were underpinned by a series of lively workshop discussions on the second day and an exhibition that showed ABB's true capability within the safety environment".
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