The theme of Inspire 2014 is how the interaction among Culture, Safety and Technology can be used to improve safety in process plants.

ACM Facility Safety and the Institute of Hazard Prevention present the Inspire 2014 Conference on May 6-8, 2014 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  The conference covers process safety issues and technology and features workshops, papers, demonstrations and panel discussions covering safety topics including SIL, HAZOP, offshore safety, the safety culture and how to improve safety procedures in process plants.

Conference is made up of two parts, the Pre-Conference which is two half day workshops on Tuesday May 6, and the two-day conference on May 7 & 8.

The theme of Inspire 2014 is Culture, Safety and Technology. The sessions and keynote addresses will focus on understanding real-time and future risk in operations, creating and maintaining a culture of safety, and innovative solutions to safety issues in the form of programs, tools and technology.

Keynote speakers and guest presenters will share success stories, lessons learned and ways to improve safety performance.

Keynote speakers include Ian Sutton, Process Risk Consultant and Author, and Captain Keith Martinsen, North American aviation veteran.

Sutton’s keynote address is titled “The Magpie Discipline.” He will discuss some of the attributes of an effective process safety professional, the development of PSM over the last 25 years and provide a few thoughts as to what the future holds for the PSM world. He will also present a paper “Offshore Safety - The Happening Place.” This covers lessons learned from the offshore business, particularly the impact of Deepwater Horizon/Macondo. The presentation will also discuss Safety Case/PSM approaches to managing process safety.

Martinsen’s keynote address will draw on parallels identified in other industries where safety is vital and where human error plays a role in accidents. He will show how airlines struggled to resolve difficult safety issues that beset the entire industry worldwide, and how these problems were overcome to the point where air travel is now rightly recognized as the safest mode of transport in the world.