HazardEx International 08 will be held at the East of England Show Ground, Peterborough, UK, on the 27th & 28th February 2008. Click Here for details of the programme or please email events@imlgroup.co.uk for further information.

This year's HazardEx event will grow once again with an extended exhibition and a full two day international conference programme supporting the global hazardous area marketplace in a brand new, purpose built centre. The HazardEx Awards, which celebrate excellence in the hazardous area environment, will be run for the fourth consecutive year. The conference & exhibition is scheduled for February 27th and 28th, 2008 with the Awards Gala Dinner planned for the first evening.
As with the previous award schemes, a shortlist of finalists for each category will be drawn up. It's then up to the readers of HazardEx The Journal and Hazardous Area International magazine (HAI) & website to chose the winners in each category by voting on-line and deciding which entry is worthy of a category win. A call for nominations for the 2008 awards will be published in issues of HazardEx the Journal and HAI throughout the year. Nominations are submitted online via this link http://www.hazardexonthenet.net/theawards/2008/nominate.asp

The HazardEx 2008 Conference will include sessions & workshops on:

• Health, Safety and the environment – during and after an incident
• What do the DTI & HSE think now and into the future on plant & operator safety
• Case study – Process safety at a major global oil producer
• Case study – Principles of hazard analysis at a global chemicals company
• An update on Internationalisation under the IECEx certification scheme
• Ensuring operational competence in the hazardous area
• Functional safety/ Safety Integrity Levels (SIL’s)
• Industrial Fire Safety precautions and their effects on the environment
• Personnel protection, equipment & systems (PPE)
• IT based safety systems – RFID, wireless, fieldbus networking
• Other case studies from the global industrial community

FREE-TO-ATTEND WORKSHOPS

During the 2 days there will be free-to-attend workshops running in the Peterborough Suite Bar. Also, Sira will be running sessions on their stand H10 on both days, please see the download here for the programme in more detail.

Schedule

Wednesday 27th February

08 14:30 - 16:30 Rockwell
Machine Safety

Thursday 28th February 2008

09:30 - 10:30 Integrity & Compliance Management
Sensible approach to Ex maintenance frameworking

11:00 - 13:00 Dowding & Mills
Maintenance and repair of IECEx certified equipment

Contact us for more information by email events@imlgroup.co.uk or call +44 (0) 1732 359990