Sunday, October 12, 2008

An intro..

The concept of risk management, hmm....first we need to know what risk is! come on… who does not know what risk is… it is used so commonly by many of us daily.

To express in the technical terms one could define as the product of the severity from a potential incident or event and how frequent could it happen. Some examples could be:

- Risk from day to day activity (sprain, pain / ache, stress, impatience…)

- Risk from travel (including driving, being a passenger or just being a pedestrian)

- Risk from natural disasters (earthquake, flooding, avalanche, hurricane, epidemics…)

- Risk from industrial accidents (explosions, fires, toxic release, run-away reactions..)

- Risk from terrorist attack

- Risk from investments (shares market, debentures, capital expenditure, marriage…)

The list can go even longer, and yes that is the purpose of this place - to list down the different sort of risks around us and how could we tackle them. It could be anything from the risk in forwarding junk emails to risk in buying a bottle of drink from a local shop.

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Professional practising process safety and loss prevention. Areas of expertise include: • Hazard identification, Consequence modelling and analysis • Risk evaluation (qualitative and quantitative) • Identify and evaluate cost-effective engineering solutions to reduce or mitigate risk • Emergency planning and preparedness • HSE training and audits

Publications by Author

  • Identifying Opportunities of Enhancing Safeguard Stewardship through IPL Rationalization, Global Congress on Process Safety, AIChE, March 2017
  • Identifying and managing process risks related to biofule project and plants, HAZARDS XXII, April 2011
  • Essence of the accuracy and acceptability of failure rate data in risk assessment, HAZARDS XXII, April 2011
  • Improving process safety performance using process hazard information, ChemInnovations, Oct 2010
  • Analysing the effectiveness of risk reduciton measures implemented, 13th Internationa Symposium on Loss prevention, June 2010
  • Determining process safety performance indicators for major accident hazards using site process hazard information, HAZARDS XXI, Nov 2009
  • Using predictive risk assessment to develop user-friendly tools for on-site and off-site emergency planning, HAZARDS XXi Nov 2009
  • Process Safety - staying ahead, The Chemical Engineer, IChemE, Oct 2009
  • SreeRaj R Nair, Determining the criteria for evaluation of toxic hazards, Journal of HSE and Fire Engineering, ASFE CUSAT, Issue 2 March 2009
  • S R Nair, Methods of avoiding tank bund overtopping using computational fluid dynamics tool, Paper 40, Page 479-495, HAZARDS XX, April 2008
  • Sreeraj R Nair, A review on Buncefield oil storage incident investigation, Petrosafe-07, April 2007
  • Sreeraj R Nair, Safety studies through project life cycle, Fire and Safety Journal, ASFE CUSAT, October 2006

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