Environmental firm’s chemical reaction
When environmental consultancy SLR acquired leading process safety management company HFL Consulting late last year, the two proved a dream fit.
HFL Consulting’s team would build on SLR’s existing capability, said the latter’s European regional...
BIG BANG THEORY pays dividends
ChemUK founder Ian Stone tells Helen Compson about the massive expansion of the expo in what is only its second year
It arrived with a bang last May and a formula worthy of the chemical...
Mitigating risk
In this issue, we speak to Karl Jones of OAMPS Hazardous Industries, a specialist commercial insurance broker founded in 1986. Hazardous industries are their area of expertise, and since their foundation, they’ve worked with...
The arrival of the new era
Chemical Industry Journal met with Dr Maura Jolliffe, Commercial Director for Material Science and Specialty Chemicals at Brenntag UK & Ireland, to discuss the evolution of business relationships within the chemical industry.
What changes have...
communication is key to industry wide success in managing risks
What key areas of risk do you help your clients to manage?
We specialise in understanding complicated risk, and in particular that from major accident hazards. We approach risk understanding from three key perspectives, safety...
nobel prize winner talks to us
Dr Frances Arnold, the American chemist and engineer, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize for her work in pioneering directed evolution reveals more about her work.
Dr...
Process safety leadership in focus
In this issue of the Chemical Industry Journal, we speak to Andy Stanley, Managing Director and founding partner of RAS, a specialist risk management firm with particular expertise in high hazard industries.
Today, the RAS...
No-deal repercussions
“No-deal would be catastrophic,” so said Dr Dani Loughran on a recent edition of Question Time, when speaking of the impact of leaving the European Union.
Dani’s words clearly resonated with the audience, viewers at...
process safety leadership
Protecting people, assets and profit
“Profits are to some extent the return for successful risk-taking,” observes Julian Hought, Managing Director of HFL Consulting. “This means that those in charge must understand the risks and manage...
Process Safety Management – rethinking leadership
In this issue of the Chemical Industry Journal, we speak to Richard Roff and Neil Smith about their work with the Process Safety Management (PSM) Competence Programme Board.
We take a look at the programmes...