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Upcoming CIA Events
CIA Annual Sustainability Conference 2025
The conference will explore ground-breaking innovations, best practices and strategic collaborations that are driving sustainability within the sector. Hear from a variety of speakers on how to shape a greener, more sustainable future for industry. Find out more.
UK Chemical Reactions Conference 2025
The 2nd edition of our annual conference will offer a deep dive into the evolving landscape of UK chemicals regulation and policy.
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DSEAR - Practical Application
The application of the ATEX directive and its UK implementation through DSEAR by companies has been shown to be of variable quality. DSEAR sets minimum requirements for the protection of workers from risks related to dangerous substances.
Energy and Industrial Competitiveness in the UK webinar hosted by Onsite Energy
How do UK energy prices compare to other industrial manufacturing nations such as Germany or the US? What impact does this have on the commercial viability of technologies such as heat pumps or cogeneration?
Occupied Building Risk Assessment Technical Briefing - 16th & 20th September
Join industry experts from the Chemical Industries Association(CIA), AXIOM and Alan Wood & Partners for a morning of technical insights into safety considerations for occupied buildings on major hazard sites. FREE event.
Maintenance Management – Delivering Reliability in the Process Industries
The course will be delivered in the context of maintenance in the Process Industries, drawing on case studies and industry specific experience.
SOPs Writing Procedures: Current Best Practices
Supporting safer, productive and reliable operations Procedures are critical documents for safely operating a process plant. Well defined, structured and consistent procedures will support reliable and repeatable operations, and form the foundation for driving continuous improvement leading to productivity gains.
Problem Solving in Production – Applying Structured Problem Solving Tools to Daily Issues
This course will cover a range of problem solving tools and techniques that can be used on a day to day basis to deal with issues and problems as they arise and rapidly develop actions to address them, quickly regain control, minimise disruption, and prevent repeat issues in the future.
Management of Change - A Practical Approach
This course has been specifically designed for those requiring to increase their underpinning knowledge of management of change systems, including those who initiate, evaluate and implement change on high hazard facilities. Also appropriate for managers who have responsibility for the audit and review of the change management system.
Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries Forum Environmental Risk Assessment
The Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries Forum (CDOIF) have published guidance for determining the tolerability of environmental risk at COMAH Establishments, CDOIF - Guideline Environmental Risk Tolerability for COMAH Establishments v 2.0. Operators of Upper and Lower Tier COMAH establishments are being encouraged to adopt this methodology. The training will be based on the requirements of this guidance and will lead learners through the use of presentations and workshop sessions.
Value Stream Mapping in the Process Industries - Creating Flow in Chemicals
Value Stream Mapping is a diagnostic tool used to reveal and analyse how a site operates (though can be scaled to analyse part or even the whole of the supply chain). Value Stream Mapping reveals details of what is occurring within the business, so allowing the identification and addressing of improvement opportunities.
Climate Change and COMAH
The training aims to provide learners with an understanding of the potential local and global effects of climate change, to assist with the implementation of a suitable and sufficient risk assessment and adaptation plan. The training will include both presentations and workshop sessions.
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