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Damaged storage tanks at Buncefield

17/12/2025 News

Buncefield anniversary prompts appreciation of health and safety standard developments

Twenty years after the Buncefield event, its legacy remains visible in the ensuing changes in health and safety practice, which included significant contributions from the Energy Institute.

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14/9/2022 Comment / Dr Stephen Bater

Why are process safety incidents still happening and what can we do to stop them?

Identifying, evaluating the risks of, and ultimately preventing accidents and incidents should be of the utmost importance to anyone working with hazardous chemicals, but this is not always the case. Dr Stephen Bater FEI, Director of Process Safety Auditing Limited, recommends implementing the EI Process Safety Management Framework to maintain safe operations.

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12/3/2025 Comment / Sandeep Tummalapalli

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Sandeep Tummalapalli AMEI

Sandeep Tummalapalli AMEI is an Asia HSE Business Partner for Topsoe. He explains how the Energy Institute’s health and safety initiatives, as well as its Executive Training Programme, has had a transformative impact on his career.

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7/2/2024 Feature / Laszlo Komaromi,Gaynor Woodford

How to build a safe energy future?

As the energy industry undergoes rapid transformations on its journey to net zero, the importance of robust process safety measures cannot be overstated. Gaynor Woodford, TÜV Rheinland Sustainability Lead, and Laszlo Komaromi AMEI, Energy Institute (EI) Senior Technical Officer, share insights from the November 2023 TÜV Rheinland Process Safety Management Workshop and Conference, in which the EI actively participated.

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19/3/2025 Feature / Marcin Nazaruk

How to deal with hazards in process operations more effectively

Despite the widespread use of risk assessments and hazard identification, accidents continue to occur in the energy industry and elsewhere. Perhaps more attention should be given to human factors in process safety, and particularly the conditions that raise the likelihood of errors. The co-author of new Energy Institute guidelines on the subject, Dr Marcin Nazaruk, founder and CEO of Psychology Applied, explains.

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