This page was created by Martin Goose. I worked for 30 years as a Process Safety Specialist within the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the regulatory body for Occupational Safety and Health in the UK. I took early retirement from HSE in 2007 but continued to be active in consultancy and on behalf of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group and as an IChemE 'ChemEnvoy' available to speak to the public, media etc. on safety in the Process Industries for the following decade.

I am now fully retired.

The Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group web site includes a wide variety of technical papers available for free download. These include papers from 28 conferences in the 'Hazards' series, 171 issues of Safety Newsletters produced by the former ICI, Safety and Loss Prevention Teaching Notes, and a selection of old or out-of-print accident reports produced by the Health and Safety Executive.

I was the author of the IChemE document Model Code for the Management of Risk Issues

This document was introduced on the IChemE web site in the following terms.

In May 2007 the Institution of Chemical Engineers published its 'Roadmap for 21st Century Chemical Engineering' outlining the beneficial contributions that chemical engineers could make to society over the years ahead. The section of the roadmap that dealt with the topic 'Health, Safety, Environment and Public Perception of Risk' proposed the production of a model code for risk management. This work was taken forward under the leadership of Martin Goose, a member of the SLP SIG committee. The resulting document presents a 'model' of how major hazard risks in the process industries should be managed in the context of the UK regulatory system. Many of the principles of this model can be applied internationally, and in other topic areas where risk management is required. Some important topics which have relevance beyond risk management, and are required in order to achieve high standards of organisational performance generally, have been omitted. These topics include 'leadership' and 'the measurement and management of competence'.

Below you will find links to some of the presentations that I have given, and other material, about Safety and Loss Prevention in the Major Hazard Chemical and Process Industries.

• A presentation on Use of Risk Criteria in Decision Making (PDF, 3MB) which has been used, with various modifications, as an introductory session at several events organised by IChemE and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
  


• A presentation entitled 'Process Safety - Responsibility and Accountability' (PDF, 796kB) first presented at the European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) Symposium 2011 entitled 'Process Safety in the Gas Industry: Safe Design and Operation of Production Plants' held in Brussels on 26th and 27th January 2011.
  The presentation is based on two documents published by IChemE.
  The documents are entitled:
  • "Directors’ and engineers’ responsibilities for safety - a cautionary tale by Brian Harris"
  • "The Self Assessment Toolkit for Safety Health and Environmental Assurance"
  They are available for download from the Safety and Loss Prevention Special Interest Group resource pages.


• A presentation on Legal Requirements on Engineers Working in the UK (PDF, 280kB) which was given at an in-company lunchtime learning session.


• A presentation on Managing Major Hazard Process Safety Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (PDF, 438kB) which was given at the Kuwait Process Safety Management Conference 2013, 1-3 October, Holiday Inn Salmiyah Hotel, Kuwait City.
  
  This presentation was given again, in a revised form, to a meeting of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Warrington and Widnes member group on 27th November 2014. Managing Major Hazard Process Safety Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (PDF, 490kB)


• A presentation on Safety Economics and Sustainable Performance - Risk Based Implementation of Safety Measures (PDF, 355kB) which was given at the inaugural Kuwait International Health, Safety & Environment (KIHSE) Conference & Exhibition held on the 16-17 February 2015 at the Regency Hotel and Conference Centre, Kuwait City.
  
  A presentation on Proper risk assessments and effective regulation – is there ever acceptable risk? (PDF, 2.3MB) which was given at the 2nd Kuwait International Health, Safety & Environment (KIHSE) Conference & Exhibition held on the 15-16 February 2017 at the Regency Hotel and Conference Centre, Kuwait City.


• A presentation on How the HSE Works (PDF, 192kB) which was given at a meeting of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Chester member group on 4th March 2015.


• A very short presentation to promote discussion on Learnings and Reflections From Fluctuating Energy Prices and The Potential Impact on Safety Spend (PDF, 285kB) which was given at the Society of Petroleum Engineers, International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility held on 11–13 April 2016 at the Stavanger Forum, Stavanger, Norway.


• A selection of technical papers, some submitted to the 'Hazards' series of conferences organised by the NW Branch of IChemE, and one prepared after giving evidence to the Buncefield MIIB.
  • Incorporating the Effect of Water Sprays into 'ALIBI', a Model for Site Specific Prediction of LPG Tank BLEVE Frequency (PDF, 38kB).
    A paper first published in 1998.
  • Location and design of occupied buildings - assessment step by step (PDF, 96kB).
    A paper first published in 2000.
  • ‘All Measures Necessary’ under the EC Seveso II Directive, Demonstration of Safety, Step by Step (PDF, 52kB).
    A paper first published in 2004.
  • Gross Disproportion, Step by Step - A Possible Approach to Evaluating Additional Measures at COMAH Sites (PDF, 141kB).
    A paper first published in 2006.
  • A Note on the Data Requirements for Predicting Risks in the LUP Advisory Context (PDF, 36kB).
    A paper prepared in 2007.


• I have given some of the presentations at the Fundamentals of Process Safety course, organised by IChemE. My focus is on the numerical aspects of quantitative risk assessment. Course delegates often often struggle with the concepts of individual and societal risk and the relationship between them. In order to clarify this topic area, I have produced two short notes giving further explanation by way of examples. These notes are:
  • Representing Societal Risk as an FN Curve and Calculating the Expectation Value (PDF, 226kB)
  • Societal Risk of N=1 (or more) –v– Individual Risk (PDF, 66kB).
  
  I have also produced an FN plot showing relevant criteria and several important data points.
  • Societal Risk Criteria (PDF, 38kB)


• An additional aspect of societal risk that also causes confusion is the use of Risk Integrals by the UK HSE . I have produced a short explanatory note on this topic:
  • A Note on HSE's Use of Risk Integrals (PDF, 96kB)


• Some essays originally published within 'Risk Matters' (a discussion site badged by Lloyd’s Register and operated by Paul Davies) to provoke debate about safety and loss prevention issues.
  • Why risk managers must be schizophrenic! First published 12-Oct-09
  • Is this self regulation at last? First published 5-Jan-10
  • Is all the post-Buncefield research a waste of money? First published 23-Apr-10


• A short article entitled 'Explosives Ship on Fire in the English Channel!' produced for Newsletter of the Association of Former HM Inspectors of HSE in Autumn 2020.

If you want to know more about my career history you can find it in my CV (PDF, 133kB).