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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY
PROMOTING A
CULTURE OF SAFETY
OCTOBER 12-13, 2012
PROGRAM
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IIT GANDHINAGAR
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY
PROCESS SAFETY 1
PROMOTING A
CULTURE OF SAFETY
OCT 12, 11:45 am-1:00 pm
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY
PROGRAM
Day 1: October 12, 2012
Time
Event 08:30 to 09:30 Registration
09:30 to 10:25 Inauguration
10:30 to 11:15 Keynote 11:15 to 11:45 Tea Break
11:45 to 13:00 Parallel Sessions 1 13:00 to 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00 Plenary Session 1 15:00 to 15:15 Break
15:15 to 16:15 Parallel Sessions 2 16:15 to 16:45 Tea Break
16:45 to 17:45 Parallel Sessions 3 17:45 to 18:45 Poster Session
18:45 to 20:00 Break
20:00
Dinner
Day 2: October 13, 2012
Time
Event 09:00 to 09:55 Plenary Session 2
10:00 to 11:00 Parallel Sessions 4 11:00 to 11:30 Tea Break
11:30 to 12:30 Parallel Session 5 12:30 to 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 to 14:30 Parallel Session 6 14:30 to 16:00 Exhibition
16:00 to 16:45 Closing Session PROMOTING A
CULTURE OF
SAFETY
Venue
Dome Dome Dome Shed 3
Shed 3 Shed 4 Dome Shed 3
Shed 3 Shed 3
Shed 3 Shed 3 Venue
Shed 3 Shed 3 Shed 3 Shed 3 Shed 4 Shed 3 Field
Dome
Sessions
REGISTRATION S. B. Mathur, DG, DGFASLI, and Sudhir K. Jain, Director, IITGN Sam Mannan Process 1
Fire 1
Hazards 1
Transportation 1
August W. Schaefer and Venkatesh Kodur
Process 2
Fire 2
Hazards 2
Construction 1
Best Practice 1 Fire 3
Behavioral 1 Risk/Disaster 1
Student Posters Dinner at Hotel Haveli
Sessions
Satinath Sarangi and Informal Sector Safety Challenges
Process 3
Economics Occupational Transportation 2
Process 4
Fire 4
Behavioral 2 Risk/Disaster 2
Best Practice 2 Nuclear
Emerging
Construction 2
Anil Kakodkar, Former Chairman, AEC and Sudhir K. Jain, IITGN PRESENTATION
AUTHOR
Inherent Safety in the Process Industries: Opportunities for Industrial Practice and
Academic Research
Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, National University of Singapore
Validating Sub-Sea Gas Pipeline Leaks Discharge Model for Arabian Sea
Conditions
Sridher P Chelliah, Head-Safety, Tata Power Company Limited, Mumbai
Process Safety Management and its Applicability in City Gas Distribution
Mukesh M Mahbubani, Amit Gupta, Sr. Manager-HSE, Adani Gas Limited, Gujarat
Safety is Critical in Chemical Process Industries
J. K. Ghelot, President, People Oriented Science and Technology Society,
New Delhi
Implementation of Safety Instrumented Systems In Process Sector — Challenges
and New Trends
Panini C. Ranade, Chief Manager-Projects, Emerson Export Engineering Center,
Emerson Process Management, Pune, India
Session Chair
Jitu C. Patel, Senior Consultant, ASSE Fellow, Arizona, USA
PROCESS SAFETY 2
OCT 12, 15:15 pm-16:15 pm
PHA — A Step Towards Achieving Excellence in PSM
Vijaykumar Menon, Viral Desai, Priyanka B, Vice President, Technical Service,
Reliance Industries Ltd, Dahej Manufacturing Division, Gujarat
Management of Change
Jayaraman Gopal, Head-HSE, Energy Business, Essar Oil Ltd.,Jamnagar, Gujarat
Implementing Functional Safety in Process Industries
J. Selvakumar, Assistant General Manager, Process Safety, Cholamandalam MS
Risk Services Limited, Chennai.
Loss Prevention in Process, Construction or Any Other Major Industry
Jitu C. Patel, Senior Consultant, ASSE Fellow, Arizona, USA
Session Chair
Sam Mannan, Regents Professor and Director, MKOPSC, Texas A & M University
PROCESS SAFETY 3
OCT 13, 10:00 am-11:00 am
Redefining HSE Vision 2025 and Goals for Oil & Gas Industry
Hari Kumar, Head-HSEQ, Cairn Energy India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon, Haryana
Safety System and Management of Lethal Chemicals
G.Vishwanathan, Former Deputy General Manager in IPCL, Chennai
Performance Based Approach to Burner Management System (BMS)
Shirish M. Ratnaparkhi, Senior Project Manager, Emerson Export Engineering
Center, Emerson Process Management, Pune.
Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA) Methodology for Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
Determination
Mahrshi Thakor, Yogendra Dave, Head-HSE, Zeppelin System India Pvt. Ltd.,
Alembic Campus, Vadodara, Gujarat
Session Chair
Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, National University of Singapore
PROCESS SAFETY 4
OCT 13, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Process Safety Culture — A Tool to Measure Process Safety Performance
K Ramesh Ramalingam, Assistant General Manager, Process Safety, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited, Chennai
Wellcon — A Safer Approach to Well Control
Naveen Velmurugan, Tushar Sharma, Gopal Bansal, Graduate Student, School of
Petroleum Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar
Hazop Study of a Batch Process
Sumita. P. Panchal and N. V. Bhate, Chemical Engineering Department, The M.S.
University of Baroda, Gujarat
Do You Have Right HSE Measures in Your Company Balanced Score Card?
Ahmed A Abbas, Manager; Health, Safety & Environment Group, Kuwait Oil
Company, Kuwait
Session Chair
Hari Kumar, Head-HSEQ, Cairn Energy India Pvt. Limited, Gurgaon
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Nuclear Safety
OCT 13, 13:30 pm-14:30 pm
Best Practices In Industries 1
OCT 12, 16:45 pm-17:45 pm
DISH Perspective of Industrial Safety
D. C. Chaudhari, Director, Industrial Safety and Health, Gujarat
Application of HSE Management in a Diversified Workforce and Results Achieved
Abdullah Al Abdul Salam, Bala Siva Srikanth Adivi, Debasish Kakoty, Yousef AlQallaf, Team Leader HSE(NK) Team, Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
The Basic of Good Process Safety Management in an Industry
Yogendra Dave, Head-HSE, Zeppelin System India Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara, Gujarat
HSE Best Practices HSEF Good Practices at Essar Oil Ltd.
Jayaraman Gopal, Head-HSE, Energy Business, Essar Oil Ltd., Jamnagar, Gujarat
Session Chair
Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, National University of Singapore
Best Practices In Industries 2
OCT 13, 13:30 pm-14:30 pm
Safety Aspects in Design of Inclined Fuel Transfer Machine for Prototype Fast
Breeder Reactor
Somesh Rai, J.P. Singh, Ritesh Ranjon, K.M. Prabhakaran, M. Dev, S. Roy, K.P.
Sarkar, R.J. Patel, Scientists, Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai
Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors
Sabyasachi Behera, MBA Student, (P.T.U. Jalandhar), Former Design Engineer,
Walchandnagar Industries Limited (Nuclear Division), Pune.
Engineering of Thermal Safety in the Design of Transportation Packages of
Radioactive Materials
Manjunath S.Bychapur, Ramesh Chandra J. Patel and Suhas G. Markandeya,
Scientists, Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai
Session Chair
Anil Kakodkar, Formar Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
Risk & Disaster Management 1
OCT 12, 16:45 pm-17:45 pm
Risk Assessment and Disaster Management
K. U. Mistry, Chairman, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gujarat
Emergency and Disaster Mitigation by Implementation of Integrated Management
System
M.Vijay Kumar, General Manager, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, Dahanu TPS,
Dahanu.
Making District Disaster Management Plans Pro-Poor
Vandana Chauhan, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, New Delhi
Session Chair
R. Srivastava, Deputy Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India
Systematic Approach for Effective PSM Implementation
Ravi Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President, Centre for HSE Excellence, Reliance
Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai,
Risk & Disaster Management 2
Integrating Process Safety During Design Stage
Subba Rao, Chief Executive, Risk Service, Cholamandalam MS Risk Services,
Chennai
To Be Announced
R. Banerjee, CEO, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Gujarat
Improving Safety Compliance Through Safety Inspection — Using a Powerful
Technique
Krishna Nirmalya Sen, Head, HSE Hydrocarbon Construction & Pipelines, Hydrocarbon IC, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai
Risk Assessment — A Neglected Tool for Health, Safety and Environment
Management
Damodar Vishnu Lele, Retired Medical Officer Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
An Industry Problem
Hugo Vits, General Manager Bitumen Technology, Site & HSSE Manager, Shell
Technology Center, Bangalore
Global Regulations on Quantitative Risk Assessment
Prerna Jain, Prashanti Bhupathi and Prabir Ghosh, Centre for HSE Excellence,
Group Manufacturing Services, Reliance Industries Limited
Session Chair
Sam Mannan, Regents Professor and Director, MKOPSC, Texas A & M University
Training Through Games for Checklist Based Procedures in Emergency and
Disaster Management
Onkar Hoysala, Bharath Palavalli, Harsha Krishna, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Fields
of View, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Bangalore
Session Chair
Durgesh Rai, Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Transportation Safety 1
OCT 12, 11:45 pm-13:00 pm
Reducing Brake Build-up Time — Major Approach in Reducing Traffic Accidents
Joachim Nell, Head of TechCenter India & Director Affordable Cars Strategy,
Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Safety Issues in Indian Railway
Ajai Banerji, Author, Major Railway Accidents In India & Worldwide Railway
Accidents
Safety Analysis of an Automobile
Geetesh Gaga, Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, K.C. College of Engineering and
I.T, Nawanshahr, Punjab,
An Approach to Develop Safety Audit Framework for Urban Roads
Pratik J. Dave, Pradip. J. Gundaliya, Rajan Lad., Consultant, Urban Transport,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Session Chair
R. Srivastava, Deputy Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India
Transportation Safety 2
OCT 13, 10:00 pm-11:00 pm
Road Traffic Crash Scenario in India
Raj Ponnaluri, Director, Center for Management Studies;Professor & Area
Chairperson Operations Management, ASCI, Hyderabad
An In-Depth Study on Highway Road Safety and The Role Of Construction
Companies: A Case Study on NH 71A
Anup Kumar Ghosh, Suparno Ghosh, Director, SD College of Management,
Israna, Panipat, Haryana
Enhancing Road Safety Capacity of India for Saving Numbers Of Lives
P. M. Joshi, N. R. Chaudhary, Chirag N. Patel, Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, Swami Sachchidanand Polytechnic College, Visnagar, Gujarat
Electrical Safety Perspective in Rail Transport: Fire Accidents in Indian Railways
V.Dileep Kumar, M.Roja Lakshmi, Faculty, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Session Chair
Joachim Nell, Head of Tech Center India, Continental Automotive Components
(India) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
OCT 13, 11:30 pm-12:30 pm
Emerging Issues
OCT 13, 13:30 pm-14:30 pm
School Safety: Past Initiatives and Way Ahead
Piyush V. Ramteke, Isha R. Popat, Komal G. Kantariya, Sector Manager, Gujarat
State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA), Gandhinagar
Child’s Right to Safer Schools: A Campaign
Sanchit Oza, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, New Delhi
Safety Education in India — Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Akhil K Das, Former Chief Manager Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd.,
Ex-Senior Engineer KNPC Kuwait
Criteria of Selecting the Contractor for Developing Safety Culture While
Establishing Wind Energy Power Plants in India.
Mallikarjune Gowda M C, Bharath Repaka, Puttabore Gowda and R Chandrashekar, General Manager-HSE, Gamesa Wind Turbines Pvt. Ltd, Chennai
Current Trends in Earthing in Electrical Safety
P. B. Karandikar, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Army Institite of
Technology, Pune
Session Chair
Ranjit Banerji, CEO, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
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Behavioural Safety 2
OCT 13, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Construction 1
OCT 12, 15:15 pm-16:15 pm
Safety Culture in Industry, Adopting Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) to Reach World
Class Safety
Ajay K. Gupta, HSEF-Chief, Reliance Industries Ltd., Vadodara
Safety Observations and Conversation (SOC) — A Successful Behavioral Safety
Modification Program
Debasish Kakoty and Yousef Al-Qallaf, Safety Engineer, Support Services Group,
Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
Safety Management — A Behaviour Model
Sanjay Sinha, Safety Officer, BPSCL, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand
Pedestrian Behavior and Safety Analysis at Controlled Pedestrian Crossing in
India.
Dilip A Patel, Pankaj Verma, K.Prakash, Research Scholar, Department of Civil
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Session Chair
Biju Dominic, CEO, FinalMile, Mumbai
Challenges in Construction Safety & Practical Approach to Deal With
Ashok Ramakant Dashputre, Senior Vice President, Centre for HSE Excellence,
Group Manufacturing Services, Reliance Corporate Park, Navi-Mumbai
Safety in Tunneling and Underground Construction
Subhash Sarin, Retired Corporate HSE Head, Hindustan Construction Company,
Chief of Industrial Safety Division, Mumbai
Measuring Effectiveness of Safety Management in High Rise Buildings
Varun Ajmera, Nikhil Sarwate, Nibodh Shetty, Sahil Shah, Taniket Sawant, Student,
Civil Engineering, Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai
OCT 12, 11:45 am-13:00 pm
To Be Announced
Scott Hariss, OccHealth & Risk Management Consultant, UL Knowledge Services
Safety in Construction: A Safety Management Perspective
Ramesh VM, Sakthivel Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
PPE — Meeting International Standard
Nishith A Dand, Director, Industrial Hygiene Science, Boroda
Session Chair
Gordon E. S. I. Biezeveld, Program Manager, Building Materials, Life Safety and
Security Industries, Underwriters Laboratories
Review of Safety Practices in Welding and Cutting Process
Vishvesh Badheka, Anup Sharma, Animesh Mathur, Swapnil Choudhary, Sarvjot
Singh, Associate Professor, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar
Environment Health Safety Practices in Cold Storages
Purushothaman Venugopal, Divisional EHS Co-ordinator for ACRPG & ACRSD,
Blue Star Ltd, Chennai
Risk Containment and Hazard Square-Off Philosophy
Amitava Lahiri, HSE Manager, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., OMPL-MARC Project,
Mangalore
Session Chair
Dunu Roy, Director, Hazard Center, New Delhi
Construction 2
OCT 13, 13:30 pm-14:30 pm
Hazards 1
Safety 2.0
Gordon E. S. I. Biezeveld, Program Manager, Building Materials, Life Safety and
Security Industries, Underwriters Laboratories
A Review of Blast Loading and Blast Effects on Structure
Somnath Karmakar, Amit Shaw, Showmen Saha, Assistant Professor, Civil
Engineering Department, NIT Durgapur
Retrofitting Safety Measures for Important Buildings in Kashmir Valley
Zahid M. Mir, Mohammad Z. Akhtar, Abdul R. Dar, Student, National Institute of
Technology, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
Hazards 2
To Be Announced
Durgesh Rai, Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Informality, Illegality, and Searching for Safety
Dunu Roy, Director, Hazard Center, New Delhi
Session Chair
Venkatesh Kodur, Professor & Director, SAFE-D Center, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Michigan State University
Industrial Hygiene — A Practical Approach
Swati D. Jadav, Industrial Hygienist, Division Head, Industrial Hygiene Service,
Baroda
Hazard Management While Transporting, Loading & Unloading of Hazardous
Chemicals
Sivarajan M, Sreenivas V, Scientist, Cell for Industrial Safety and Risk Analysis and
Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai
Building Risk Based Safety Management System
Dean (Dhiren) Patel, LLC Senior Director, Southwest Consultants, Occupational
Safety, Health & Environmental Institute, USA
Scott Hariss, OccHealth & Risk Management Consultant, UL Knowledge Services
Economics of Safety
OCT 13, 10:00 am-11:00 am
OCT 12, 15:15 pm-16:15 pm
Return on Prevention
R. Srivastava, Deputy Director General, National Safety Council, Mumbai, India
Economics of Safety-Practical Model for Field Engineers
A Kameshwar Rao, Engineer-in-Charge, C&S & S M Jalali, Superintending
Engineer C&S and Head Fire & Safety, RRCAT, DAE, Indore
Session Chair
Economic and Human Consequences of ‘Poor Safety’
R.A.Venkitachalam, Vice President & Managing Director, Underwriters Laboratories — Emerging Markets
Occupational Safety
Economics Aspect of Safety Through the Window of Insurance
Abhijit Das, Director Reinsurance of Unison Insurance Broking Services Pvt. Ltd.,
Mumbai.
Session Chair
August W. Schaefer, Senior Vice President-Public Safety Officer, Underwriters
Laboratories Inc.
Behavioural Safety 1
OCT 12, 16:45 pm-17:45 pm
How Scientific is Behavioral Based Safety?
Biju Dominic, CEO, FinalMile, Mumbai
Success of Safety Based on Behaviour Based Safety Management System
Subhash Sarin, Retired Corporate HSE Head of Hindustan Construction Company
Chief of Industrial Safety Division, Mumbai
Safety — An Attitude
Yash Pal, Lecturer (Honorary), Institute of Disaster Management & Fire Science,
Chandigarh
Road Safety — Behavioural Management and Policy Issue
Anjali Singh, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, New Delhi
Session Chair
Ahmed A Abbas, Manager; Health, Safety & Environment Group, Kuwait Oil
Company, Kuwait
OCT 13, 10:00 am-11:00 am
Human Rights Perspective of Occupational Safety & Health for Sustainable
Production Process
Samit Kr. Carr, Secretary General, Occupational Safety & Health Association of
Jharkhand (OSHAJ), Jharkhand
Impact of Fly Ash On Occupational Health and Safety
Anjana Sahay, Director — EHS, Greentech Foundation, New Delhi
Office Ergonomics
A.Prabakaran, S.Chandralekha, PG Student-Industrial Safety Engineering,
K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode
EMR Pollution — An Imperceptible Threat for Safety
Lipi K. Chhaya, Assistant Professor, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
Design of Health Facilities is Essential for Pregnant Women and New Born Safety
Rajeev Kumar, Regional Manager, Care-India, Patna, Bihar
Session Chair
Satinath Sarangi, Founder, Bhopal Group for Information & Action
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OCT 13 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Fire Safety 1
OCT 12, 11:45 am-13:00 pm
Bombay High Offshore Platform Fire
G.Vishwanathan, Former Deputy General Manager in IPCL, Chennai
Beyond Carlton — A Case Study
Uday Vijayan, Founder, Beyond Carlton, Bangalore
Safety Enhancement of Industrial Process Monitoring and Control Using Ultra Low
Power Multidrop Wired/ Wireless Digital Communication System
Manish Thakkar, Assistant Professor, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad
To Be Announced
M.F. Dastoor, Fire Chief of Ahmadabad, Gujarat
Session Chair
August W. Schaefer, Senior Vice President-Public Safety Officer, Underwriters
Laboratories, Inc. USA
Total Fire Protection
Pravinray D. Gandhi, Corporate Fellow, Underwriters Laboratories, USA
Numerical Modelling of Suppression of Diffusion Flame Over Fuel Surface by
Water Mist
Amit Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT
Madras
Nano-Calorimeter Platform for Detection of Explosive and Combustible Materials
D. Banerjee, S. Kang, N. Niedbalski, S. Mannan, Mechanical Engineering, Mary
Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University
Early Fire Detection Using TDLS Based Gas Sensor
Abhishek Upadhyaya, Arup Lal Chakrabortyb, PhD Scholar, Department of
Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
OCT 12, 9:30 am-10:25 am
Opening Remarks
Sudhir K. Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar
Session Chair
Kathy A. Notarianni, Head, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, USA
Inaugural Address on Promoting a Culture of Safety
S.B. Mathur, Director General, Directorate General Factories Advice Service and
Labour Institutes (DGFASLI), Mumbai
INAUGURATION
OPENING KEYNOTE
Fire Safety 2
OCT 12, 10:30 am-11:15 am
OCT 12, 15:15 pm-16:15 pm
M. Sam Mannan, Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M
University System, Texas, USA
Multi-Scale Modeling Of Dust Explosions
Vimlesh K. Bind, Shantanu Roy and Chitra Rajagopal, Scientist, Explosive Safety
Group,CFEES (DRDO), Timarpur, Delhi
Framework for Creating the Best-in-Class Safety Culture
Technology Solutions for Remote Diagnostics and Servicing of Fire Detection
Systems
Manjuprakash Rama Rao, Anthony Moffa, Engineering Manager, Advanced
Research and Development, Tyco International, Bangalore
PLENARY SESSION 1
Liquid Hydrocarbon Pool Fire Suppression: Part I — Experiments Using Direct
Foam Injection (DFI)-Methodology in a 5m2 x 2m-Cylindrical Tank
R.S. Chimote, Shashi, Surendra Kumar, Kathirvel, Jeevanandam, Scientist, CSIRCentral Building Research Institute, Roorkee
Safety for Life
On the Sizing of Obstacles in Confined and Partially Confined Geometries to Avoid
Catastrophic Explosions
Amit Kumar, Vijay Cheeda, K Ramamurthi, Assistant Professor, Aerospace
Engineering, IIT Madras
August W. Schaefer, Senior Vice President-Public Safety Officer, Underwriters
Laboratories Inc.
Strategies for Enhancing Fire Safety in Buildings
Session Chair
Pravinray D. Gandhi, Corporate Fellow, Underwriters Laboratories, USA
Venkatesh Kodur, Professor & Director, SAFE-D Center, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
OCT 12, 14:00 pm-15:00 pm
PLENARY SESSION 2
OCT 13, 9:00 am-9:55 am
Fire Safety 3
Bhopal Disaster: Industrial Accident or Corporate Crime?
OCT 12, 16:45 pm-17:45 pm
Development of a Portable Flashover Predictor (Fire-Ground Environment Sensor
System
Kathy A. Notarianni, David Cyganski, R. James Duckworth, Head, Department of
Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
CLOSING CEREMONY
The Societal Impact of Fire Sprinklers
Sumit Kumar Khanna, Brendan MacGrath, Vikram Kalbag, Consultant, International Codes & Standards, FM Global, Bangalore, Karnataka
Closing Remarks on Promoting a Culture of Safety
Kitchen Fire Safety System
Akshay Jain, Adnan Ansari, Prateek Nyati, Nakul Nuwal, Chinmay Ghoroi,
Students, IIT Gandhinagar
Fire in Storage Tank in West Bengal
S K Das, S. Bhattacharyya, Gargi Bhattacharjee, Professor, Chemical Engineering
Department, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Session Chair
R.V. Venkitachalam, Vice President & Managing Director, Underwriters
Laboratories — Emerging Markets, USA
Satinath Sarangi, Founder, Bhopal Group for Information & Action
OCT 13, 16:00 pm-16:45 pm
Anil Kakodkar, Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India
IIT Gandhinagar’s Proposed Future Campus
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