Atotech Taiwan has recently passed the final audit of level 7of ISRS, becoming the 2nd company in Taiwan to get this certificate.
Chapelcross power station was Scotland’s first commercial nuclear facility. The station opened in 1959 and became the mainstay of electricity production in South West Scotland.
DNV Consulting has been awarded a contract with UK independent Venture Production to carry out a series of risk based management system assessments and audits.
Sizewell A nuclear power station in Suffolk, which has been generating electricity since 1966, has become the first business in the world to be given the highest possible safety and environmental awards by a firm of independent, international risk management consultants.
A joint industry project has been established to create the world's best system for improving safety, environmental and business performance. The new system, isrs7, draws on the work of experts from DNV and the nuclear, chemical and petrochemicals industries worldwide. isrs7 is based on the long established International Safety Rating System (ISRS).
Today, Tara Mine is performing extremely well, both in terms of productivity and in Health and Safety management. But according to Tara Mine's managing director Eero Laatio, it wasn't always such a positive picture.
The processes required to mine precious metals dictate the management of a variety of major accident hazards. Consequently, the successful delivery of a robust and comprehensive risk management programme is a critical business performance indicator.
Nuclear power plants and those who run them are under constant pressure from politicians, regulators and public opinion to prove that they operate under safe conditions. Now DNV has become active in enhancing safety for Germany’s nuclear power industry.
‘No fads, no trends, no buzzwords – just good management directly improving our business results,’ says group safety manager Peter Drillingcourt about DNV’s safety management system used at Golden Vale Dairies.
Massive railway development can be expected in Hong Kong over the next decade and beyond. Despite its small land area, Hong Kong’s present population of 6.5 million is likely to reach 10 million or more in a decade. A large proportion of them will need to travel by train.
DNV’s International Safety Rating System, the ISRS, is about much more than safety. It is also about industrial leadership. England’s Sizewell A nuclear power plant has recently achieved an ISRS level 9 rating - placing it among the top three per cent of the 6,000 industrial units worldwide that have been audited in accordance with the ISRS.
Over 1.5 million people, including 22 Members of Parliament, in north-west England and North Wales have a ringside view of the Liverpool Bay oil and gas fields. The asset is operated by Australian multinational BHP Petroleum, in a joint venture partnership with Lasmo and Centrica Resources. With one of the four fields just five miles offshore, activities are very much in the public eye. So far, the Partnership has invested £ 23 million in measures to make the environmental systems even more robust, and to avoid damage to the environment in the future.
Product and service quality, safety and cost-efficiency. Comprehensive environmental protection - all are factors in achieving success for chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer. DNV is now helping Bayer to continuously improve its HSE-management systems with a new tool – the Bayer Assessment and Improvement Tool, BAIT – which aims to make the company a worldwide leader in Health, Safety and Environmental concern.
The Fremantle Port Authority (FPA) was the first in Australia to undertake a comprehensive Quantitative Risk Analysis and Audit of its Safety Management System. Today, the FPA has adopted an approach which sees risk management as the natural way to do business, integrating it as a part of day-to-day management.
70 per cent of the world’s fleet of oceangoing ships are more than ten years old. As individual ships age, so the growing cost of their operation and maintenance encourages shipowners to replace them with newbuildings or younger successors. But there is an alternative: to extend their life span by judicious upgrading or conversion. A number of profitable shipyards around the world specialise in this option.
