The Safety & Reliability Society (SaRS) webinar programme is brought to you by the SaRS Webinar Working Group (WWG) with the objectives of: Providing high quality cross industry learning on interesting safety and reliability (S&R) topics, Promoting the message of a safer and more reliable world, Encouraging greater participation in the development of S&R across all industries, Providing presenting, career development and CPD opportunities to individual S&R practitioners, Broadening the reach of SaRS and encouraging more S&R professionals to get involved with the Society, Helping to meet the charitable aims of the Society

As with all SaRS groups the WWG consists enthusiastic S&R professionals who volunteer their time to help promote S&R across all industries. The members of WWG are: Colin Dennis (Chair) – SaRS, Philip Lang – United Utilities, Anthony Pickett – Catus Consulting, Jacqui Ward – SaRS

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1. Midlands Branch – Modelling dependencies in complex systems: The Dynamic and Dependent Tree Theory (D2T2)

Tuesday 19th March at 17:30 UK time. To register for the webinar please click here

SaRS webinars are free and open to all to attend.

The technological progress of the last fifty years has reshaped the design and operation of modern engineering systems. Conversely, the methodologies adopted to estimate their safety and reliability are the same developed  to model the systems of over fifty years ago.

While the long success of techniques such as Fault Trees and Event Trees is proof of their efficiency and has made them into a widely understood language shared by analysts, designers and regulators alike, their deficiencies in capturing the realistic behaviour of modern systems is often overlooked due to the lack of valid alternative tools.

This webinar introduces the Dynamic and Dependent Tree Theory (D2T2), a methodology aimed at tackling the obvious limitations of traditional safety analysis techniques, while retaining their advantages. The proposed approach allows to integrate the modelling of dependencies within the traditional FT/ET analysis framework, regardless of the nature or location of such relationships in the system, hence removing any hidden assumption of independence.

The (D2T2) technique is demonstrated through its application to a simple case study, focusing on the emergency cooling system of a nuclear reactor.

The webinar will be presented by Dr Silvia Tolo from the University of Nottingham. Dr Tolo gained an M.Sc. in Energy and Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna, and subsequently collaborated with the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty at the University of Liverpool, where she was awarded a Ph.D. She is currently undertaking research within The Resilience Engineering Research Group at the University of Nottingham on the development of theoretical and computational tools for the efficient modelling of complex systems.

2. London Branch – Early Career Professionals Presentation Event

Thursday 28th March at 18:00 UK time. Please see registration links below.

The London Branch of SaRS is delighted to announce that our very popular annual Early Career Professionals event is now open for registration. Come and hear three early career Safety & Reliability professionals present on interesting safety and reliability topics, followed by a Q&A and a prize for the best presentation (sponsored by Virkonnen Ltd). The event is kindly hosted by Mott MacDonald Ltd at their offices in Fleet Street, London.

This will be a joint face to face and webinar event – registration to either attend in person or to join the webinar are provided below.

Our three speakers are:

  • Ricky Campion from RSSB will explain how the operational railway can implement a whole system approach to risk when facing extreme convective rainfall.
  • Gareth Davies from CPC Project Services will describe an innovative data-driven approach to assess the emergency brake performance of trains on the Jubilee Line, marking a significant shift from conventional practice.
  • Alexandra Hurst from RAS Ltd will present the development of a bespoke risk mapping tool to comparatively rank relative levels of risk at different facilities, giving quick and straightforward results to guide decisions.

Our speakers have all with less than 10 years’ experience in Safety and Reliability and will be presenting about the interesting projects that they have been working on.

To register for the webinar please click here: Clickmeeting

To register to attend in person please click here: Eventbrite. Please only register to attend in person if you are very likely to attend, as spaces are limited.

3. Diving in a Nuclear Pond – Development of the Safety Case

Tuesday 9th April at 12:30 UK time. To register for the webinar please click here.

SaRS webinars are free and open to all to attend.

This webinar will present a case study into the recent deployment of underwater divers to clean up a Legacy Pond at Sellafield, focussing of the development of the safety case, its bespoke ALARP arguments and hazard management strategies.

The webinar will be relevant to safety specialists involved in the development and implementation of safety cases.

The webinar will be presented by:

Oliver Horton BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, MSc Env. Pollution Control, CEng MIMechE. Oliver is a Technical Director at RPS, one of the UK’s leading providers of nuclear safety case services.  He has over 20 years experience of safety case production, and over the last 10 years has been integrated into Sellafield’s safety case team delivering decommissioning safety cases for their Legacy Ponds facilities.

RPS is an Affiliate Organisation Member of the Safety & Reliability Society.

4. London Branch – Safety Culture – A Case Study in Establishing a Reporting Culture in a Major Theme Park

Wednesday 17th April at 18:00 UK time. To register for the webinar please click here.

The presenter is the Health and Safety Director at the UKs largest theme park. Over the last 6 years he has been working to establish a reporting culture in the organisation as a means of driving better data capture to allow emerging safety trends to be spotted early. As an engineer rather than a psychologist the presenter will focus on what they did at a practical level to boost reporting and then an example of how it worked with lessons learnt. Further examples of generating safety engagement will also be presented.

The webinar will show the lived experience in establishing a reporting culture and how this drives better organisational data/decision making.

This will be a joint face to face and online webinar event. The venue and registration for the face to face meeting will be available shortly.

Our speaker will be: Jonathan Ellis, Health & Safety Director at Alton Towers Resort. Jonathan is a chartered engineer and member of SARS. After studying metallurgy at university Jonathan spent time in the steel and defence sectors before joining the railway industry, where he migrated into a safety role; in particular leading on level crossing safety and system safety. Five years in consultancy then led to him joining Alton Towers Resort as Health and Safety Director in 2018. In this position he has delivered a significant reduction in risk across the resort.

Further webinar titles to be added soon

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