Recommended Topics

FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

1. Accident Prevention & “Lessons Learned” in Safety
2. Emergency preparedness and response
3. HSSE Training Effectiveness
4. HSSE Competence Building
5. Regulatory Compliance Issues
6. New Technologies and Advancement in HSSE
7. Enterprise Risk Management
8. Behavior Based Safety (BBS)
9. Human Factors in HSE Performance
10. Corporate Social Responsibility
11. Sustainability Reporting
12. HSE indicators & metrics
13. Lifting Safety in Oil and gas industry
14. Electrical Safety in Oil and gas industry
15. Management of green and brown fields in Oil and gas industry
16. Radiation Safety
17. Ageing and life extension of off-shore installations
18. Marine safety
19. Work at height
20. Defect elimination techniques
21. Warehouse safety
22. Food Safety Management
23. Laboratory Safety
24. Drilling Safety
25. Managing Contractors and Sub-contractors HSE Performance
26. Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) Management in oil and gas industries

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE:

1. Occupational Exposure Monitoring / Assessment
2. Occupational Health Risk Assessment
3. Sampling and monitoring techniques
4. Respiratory protection for working in IDLH Atmosphere
5. Ergonomics
6. Indoor Air Quality
7. Ventilation Assessment
8. Medical Care Management
9. Occupational Health Surveillance
10. Prevalence of Occupational Diseases
11. Effective Concepts for Occupational Health Management
12. Rehabilitation
13. Biological Monitoring
14. Biosafety and Bio aerosols
15. Prevention of Molds and other Microorganisms
16. HAZMAT & HAZCOM
17. De-classification of leaded facilities
18. Managing work related / occupational stress
19. Effective Engineering controls for mitigating occupational health hazards

PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT & ASSET INTEGRITY:

1. Developing process safety indicators – Chemical and major hazard industries
2. Managing the asset integrity risks associated with CO2, H2S and High BWS (Wells & Facilities)
3. Integrating Asset Integrity and HSE Management
4. Managing Process Safety throughout the Asset Life Cycle
5. Best Practices in Integrity Management of Safety Critical Systems
6. Integrity Inspection: Latest Development, Effective Measurement and Reporting
7. Managing Challenges with Asset Life Extension: New Risks, Changing Standards and Codes
8. Managing Risk in Simultaneous Operations, Drilling, Projects and Maintenance (SIMOPS)
9. Intelligent diagnostics to predict events and take action before they occur
10. Best Practices in Pipeline Management
11. Best Practices in Turnaround and Shutdown Management
12. Innovations in Shipping & Containment Technology
13. Hazards and precautions to be taken during Commissioning of process units.
14. Guidelines to decide the preventive maintenance of critical / non-critical equipment in Oil and gas industries
15. Pre-start up safety review
16. Software for Incident investigation and reporting system
17. Implementation of Process Safety Management in Oil and gas industry
18. System Safety
19. Methods used to improve the safety and reduce the consequences of hazardous chemical release
20. Layout, and operation of equipment handling hazardous chemicals
21. Incorporating Process Safety in Maintenance and Non-Routine Operations
22. Recommended strategies for identification, evaluation, and control of process related hazards
23. Abnormal situation management
24. Risk based inspection
25. Risks associated with pyrophoric material
26. Risk management approaches, planning for higher risk operations, and hazard analysis approaches
27. Qualitative and quantitative techniques
28. Damage assessment
29. Equipment reliability
30. Safety Integrity Level (SIL) & Layers of Protection
31. Management of Change
32. Safety Instrumented System & HIPPS  (High Integrity Pressure Protection System)
33. Trip/ interlock management in Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industries

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE:

1. Crisis Management
2. Emergency preparedness and Response plan (Onsite & Offsite)
3. Disaster Management
4. Business continuity plan
5. Incident command system

FIRE SAFETY:

1. Fire & Explosion
2. Fire Prevention and Control
3. Response during Fire & Explosion
4. Industry Fire Brigade Management
5. Rescue Services
6. Fire & Explosion Detection System
7. Fire protection equipment and systems
8. Fire, explosion and reactivity hazards
9. Halon replacement
10. Fire Prevention Engineering
11. Dust explosion – hazards and precautions

HSSE & RISK MANAGEMENT:

1. HSSE & Risk Management systems
2. Audits, Investigations and inspections

ENVIRONMENT:

1. Environmental monitoring and assessment
2. New Approaches in Environmental Impact Assessment
3. Carbon Trading and Air Emission Management
4. Best Practices in Gas Flaring and Emission Reduction
5. Minimizing Gas Flaring During Well Testing
6. Sustainable Development
7. Cleaner production methods
8. Energy Management
9. Environmental economics
10. Global environmental problems
11. Statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology
12. Environmental management systems
13. Environmental risk assessment
14. Environmental standards
15. Air/Water quality monitoring and assessment
16. Waste minimization program
17. Hospital / Medical Waste Management
18. Remediation techniques
19. Oil spill response planning
20. CDM Initiatives: CO₂ emissions, trading, capture, and sequestration
21. Meeting environmental commitments
22. Cost & Environmental effectiveness of new technologies
23. Sustainable Environmental performances
24. How an organization acknowledge the need for changing its environmental attitude
25. Greenhouse gases inventory
26. Green building program

SECURITY:

1. Emergency trends in security management
2. Security role for emergency management & disasters
3. Security advancement & technology
4. Case studies on security issues
5. Facility security design – Advancement
6. Security management – Business Strategy for Success
7. ISPS – International Ship & Port Security
8. Security certifications
9. Cyber security-relevance & importance in Oil & Gas and other continuous process industries

ERGONOMICS:

1. Human Factors Engineering
2. Office / Worksite Ergonomics
3. Accident Prevention using ergonomics
4. Prevention through design ergonomics
5. Ergonomic Tool Kits and Assessment

JOURNEY MANAGEMENT:

1. Managing Road Safety Risks