Past Presentation - Safety and Reliability Society

Speaker: 

Andrew Buchan and David Holland

Presentation Synopsis:

The presentation will give an introduction to the Safety and Reliability Society (SaRS), highlight SaRS members depth of expertise in oil and petrochemical industries and prompt discussion in cross sector learning in a range of high hazard industries - for full synopsis please see document attachment.

Speaker Bio:

Andrew Buchan- Bsc (Hons) MRSC CChem FNucI FSaRS MIFireE

Andrew Buchan graduated from RGIT in Aberdeen and started his career at UKAEA Harwell working on the chemistry of nuclear waste disposal. He then carried out technical decommissioning assessments at Sellafield and Windscale before moving to a role undertaking safety and risk assessments for a wide range of both operational and decommissioning nuclear chemical plant. He has worked across a wide range of areas in developing safety assessment methodologies and undertaking peer review across the nuclear industry. Andrew has contributed to several Nuclear Energy Agency and IAEA publications and working groups.

Andrew leads the programme of Severe Accident Analysis for the Sellafield site which brings together detailed analysis of safety, security, risk and emergency management. Andrew is a Chartered Chemist, a member of the Institute of Fire Engineers, a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute and the Safety and Reliability Society. He is the current Chairman of the Safety and Reliability Society (SaRS) which represents engineers and scientists from many industries working in Safety and Reliability.

David Holland BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MSaRS, MIMMM

Dr David Holland has been working in the field of Technical Safety / Process Safety management for over 25 years, both as a consultant and as a manager within the offshore oil and gas industry. In his current role as Technical Safety Manager at TAQA, a North Sea oil and gas operator, he is responsible for driving functional and behavioural excellence in Technical Safety and Process Safety across the entire asset lifecycle.

Leading a team of Engineers that provides expert technical Safety, advice, support, guidance and direction into existing operations, projects, decommissioning and wells including Safety Case management.

Led three international high profile incident investigations and delivered findings and dealt effectively with challenges to ensure that the root causes are taken on board leading to improved organisational effectiveness.

Implementing and embedding TAQAs process safety dashboard which has in turn driven a culture of process safety excellence and operational excellence. The dashboard and the culture it created helped TAQA to win the P&J Health and Safety Gold award in 2018.

David has been on the SaRS Council since 2000 and over this time has been Chair, President and seen SaRS develop to be a full member of the Engineering Council, able to confer CEng status. He has organized conferences, dinners and raised SaRS profile across Aberdeen. Most recent in a joint collaboration with the Energy Institute on “Asset Integrity Management”.

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