Past Presentation - Large Vapour Cloud Explosions: What do we know?

Speaker: 

Graham Atkinson - Health and Safety Executive

Presentation Synopsis:

Graham Atkinson of the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Laboratory will be reviewing learnings from work on a variety of large vapour cloud explosions.  He will discuss some major events and what these have in common.  The presentation will cover aspects such as observed damage patterns, the importance of meteorological conditions and the role of congestion.

Speaker Bio:

Graham Atkinson has a degree and doctorate in physics from Cambridge University and has worked for HSE since 1989.  He has regularly carried out investigations at the scene of fatal or unusual fires and explosions. The majority of these incidents have been in factories, chemical sites or warehouses. Graham has also led numerous research projects on a wide range of industrial fire and explosion problems.

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