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by Glenn Petitt with comments acknowledged from Richard Espiner
This paper was presented at the IChemE Hazards XXIII Conference in November 2012. Proceedings for the conference can be found at the IChemE Shop.
Underground cross-country pipelines ar...
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- 15 April 2013
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- Risk Management
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Environmental Risk Assessment Utilizing Bow-Tie Methodology
Fredrick V. Jones, ERM, Kumar (Chris) Israni, ERM
Abstract
Environmental risk assessment has become a recognized tool to assess the impact of projects and production operations around the...
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- 3 December 2012
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- Risk Management
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Are Product Sustainability Programs at a Tipping Point?
Chris Nelson
For senior business, EH&S, and sustainability leaders at Fortune 500 companies, designing and implementing product sustainability programs is now a strategic imperative. This ...
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- 4 September 2012
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- Performance and Assurance
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Human Error: In the loop
W. Ian Hamilton
BOWTIE diagrams are commonly used to investigate gaps in risk management, particularly for major accident risk control. However, these diagrams are typically biased towards technical safety, and do not fully...
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- 31 August 2012
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- Risk Management
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Managing Process Safety Competency
Sandra Lovell (ERM) and Peter Hill (Warwickshire Oil Storage Ltd)
Discussing the renewed scrutiny that is taking place in process industries in relation to managing process safety competency.
What are some of the...
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- 12 July 2012
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- Risk Management
- Country:
- United States
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ERM has been certified as a GRI Training Partner in the United States
What is GRI and why is corporate sustainabilityreporting important?The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a non-profit organization that promotes transparent disclosure regardin...
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- 11 July 2012
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- Performance and Assurance
- Country:
- United States
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First steps towards common Greenhouse Gas reporting in Europe: a study of existing methods and alternatives.
Translation of an article by Almudena Ordejón, a Principal Consultant at ERM, published in Infoenviro in May 2011
The consultancy Environme...
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- 16 April 2012
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- Spain
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization working to drive greenhouse gas emissions reduction and sustainable water use by increasing the level and robustness of disclosure on key sustainability parameters.
La...
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- 20 March 2012
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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The revised Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment, General Program (HJ 2.1-2011), are a further step towards alignment of Chinese EIA with international practice.
The new guideline requires stakeholder consultation throughout the...
- Date:
- 19 March 2012
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
- Country:
- China
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On December 2, 2011 US EPA re-proposed MACT and GACT emission standards and work practices for boilers and process heaters
In the continuing saga of developing hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emission standards for industrial, commercial and instituti...
- Date:
- 28 December 2011
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- United States
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The rule changes are in place and the reporting deadline is set. It is time to get to work on Subpart W. The latest revisions represent significant changes to emission factors, facility boundary definitions, applicability of source types, calculation...
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- 20 December 2011
- Service:
- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- United States
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ERM at COP17 in Durban Government negotiators, advocacy groups and the media will converge on Durban, South Africa from November 28 to December 9, 2011 for the 17th round of annual international talks on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Chang...
- Date:
- 29 November 2011
- Service:
- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- South Africa
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Watch this video on award winning masterplanning work helping to restore a hurricane devastated urban lakefront in Southwest Louisiana
Project Overview
Following the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita across Louisiana, a program of M...
- Date:
- 12 August 2011
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
- Country:
- United States
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EPA finalized the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) on 6 July 2011, which had been proposed 26 July 2010 as the Clean Air Transport Rule (CATR).
Who does this rule affect and what are the key compliance dates? The final rule impacts all electri...
- Date:
- 20 July 2011
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- Performance and Assurance
- Country:
- United States
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Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link: An overview of the explosives aspects in a quantitative risk analysis for the road transport of cartridged emulsion explosives and accessories through a densely populated area.
The construction of appr...
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- 23 May 2011
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- Performance and Assurance
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is the leading platform for climate change disclosure, holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world.
The data collected by the CDP is made available for use by a wide a...
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- 13 April 2011
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- Sustainability and Climate Change
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The oil and gas industry currently faces the greatest environmental, health and safety challenges in its entire history.
ERM is a leading global provider of integrated environmental, health and safety and social consultancy services. We support the ...
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- 21 March 2011
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ERM’s Sustainability and Climate Change team has collaborated with the CDP to develop the inaguaral Water Disclosure Report 2010.
The CDP launched its global Water Disclosure program in 2009. The program aims to provide information to institutional ...
- Date:
- 6 January 2011
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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How do we value nature? How should companies go about their business in such a way that they manage, protect and where possible enhance the natural resources available to them?These questions are at the heart of a new and emerging business focus on e...
- Date:
- 5 January 2011
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
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Sustainability Assessments: asking the right questions and answering them. Meeting the challenge of unexpected delays, unanticipated requirements and new expectations.
Working through the planning system to get a major project completed can be time ...
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- 4 January 2011
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
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Never before has the need for approaches to secure a step-change in safety and environmental performance on the front line in the global oil and gas industry been greater.
Here ERM's Global Head of the Performance and Assurance Practice Brian Kraus...
- Date:
- 20 October 2010
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- Performance and Assurance
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Discussing Energy and EHS in China's Sichuan Province.
Read more about the work going on there including two case studies relating to hydro power and the World Commission on Dams Compliance Review
- Date:
- 13 August 2010
- Service:
- Impact Assessment and Planning
- Country:
- China
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Arjen van Schaijk is the Regional Manager for ERM’s operations in Western China. Here he talks about EHS and Energy in the region.
- Date:
- 6 August 2010
- Country:
- China
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As the contaminated land sector matures - along with the technologies that make remediation possible - it is also beginning to evolve, with sustainability and issues such as climate change impacts increasingly exercising the experts.
The journey tow...
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- 6 August 2010
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- Contaminated Site Management
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Against a backdrop of increasing alignment between Chinese regulations and international expectations for land acquisition and resettlement, the frequency of resettlement disputes in China continues to gather pace, posing risks to both investors and ...
- Date:
- 21 June 2010
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
- Country:
- China
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The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires an unprecedented level of effort from both industry and government in all phases of air quality management. In fact, the CAA Amendments of 1990 are widely regarded as being among the most significant pieces of environ...
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- 18 June 2010
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The Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China was passed in September 1979. The Law absorbed the practical experience of the preceding years, and also some effective parts of other countries’ environmental laws. It defined the go...
- Date:
- 1 June 2010
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- Performance and Assurance
- Country:
- China
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The "CDP is committed to raising awareness and understanding of the business impacts of changing patterns of water availability and to facilitating a rational response to the challenges it poses from the investors, corporations and Governments".i
In...
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- 26 April 2010
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ERM Co-Authors HIA Guidance Tool for Resource Development Projects.
Hot off the press is the new Health Impact Assessment (HIA) guidance tool called Health Effects Assessment Tool (HEAT): an Innovative Guide for HIA in Resource Development Projects...
- Date:
- 9 April 2010
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- Impact Assessment and Planning
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Large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will require large-scale infrastructure to move CO2 from capture facility to storage formation. Significant resources will have to be dedicated in order to construct and operate a pipeline system. Many of ...
- Date:
- 9 April 2010
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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EPA Proposes to Require Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems to Report GHG Emissions
On March 22, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency amended the Greenhouse Gas Mandatory Reporting Rule by proposing new and extensive reporting requirements f...
- Date:
- 7 April 2010
- Service:
- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- United States
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From banking to private equity and industrial clients, we have over 35 years' experience in helping them to deal with their environmental due diligence issues around the world. This ranges from traditional pre-acquisition and vendor due diligence to ...
- Date:
- 29 March 2010
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- Transaction Services
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Just-released SEC guidance regarding financial disclosures of climate risk marks an important development amidst growing scrutiny by investors and regulators.
The SEC guidance presents new challenges for public corporations and compels companies to ...
- Date:
- 16 February 2010
- Service:
- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- United States
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The very nature of business means that organizations around the world take risks. The real challenge is in managing them to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Download this business guide to gain an overview of how ERM helps clients around the world ...
- Date:
- 16 February 2010
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- Performance and Assurance
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The COP15 negotiations in Copenhagen this December will attempt to set the course and agree on a basis for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions post-2012. There are many complex issues to be resolved, but the most fundamental one is future targets...
- Date:
- 15 December 2009
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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The drive to reduce carbon emissions offers a fresh start for executives trying to make energy efficiency gains. With governments furiously legislating on climate change and setting steeper targets for reduction, improvements in energy efficiency are...
- Date:
- 30 December 2009
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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Bringing health and safety to life
Bonnie Cheuk details how ERM is optimising its next-generation health and safety program - using the intranet, ‘Minerva’, as a platform and collaborative Web 2.0 tools to build success.
Web 2.0 technologies are op...
- Date:
- 11 December 2009
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- Performance and Assurance
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Carbon reduction has a value, whether within the business boundaries, through materials and energy efficiencies that effect the company’s trading position, or in leveraging opportunities that lie elsewhere in the supply chain. Lower carbon alternativ...
- Date:
- 3 December 2009
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
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This ERM business guide is aimed at organisations wishing to ensure their water resource needs are managed sustainably. It offers insights into the importance of water within your operations and gives practical pointers on how you can make progress t...
- Date:
- 24 November 2009
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Country:
- United States
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The product of the future will be low carbon, low energy, low waste – but high value. These are arguably some of the goals set out for all types of company in a new ERM business guide Adding value with sustainable products.
The illustrated booklet i...
- Date:
- 16 June 2009
- Service:
- Performance and Assurance
- Country:
- United Kingdom