Format & Topics

The technical program will be structured into parallel sessions. The preliminary timetable includes registration and welcome on Sunday, and from Monday to Wednesday, paper presentations (lectures and posters), Last Minute Communications as well as an accompanying exhibition. The event will include an extended poster session with a poster party.

The following non-exhaustive list of research items, when related to the process industries, are of concern for this Loss Prevention Symposium:
1. Safety 4.0, AI and digital transformation of industrial processes
2. Safety in relation to sustainability and resilience in process industry
3. Safety of decarbonization and energy transition processes
4. Safety of new materials and technologies
5. Safety and security of chemical and energy infrastructures
6. Conventional risk assessment and management approaches
7. Other process safety topics

Welcome on each of the themes listed above are contributions, validated and applied in academia and/or industry, addressing, e.g., relevant test methods, material properties, accident scenarios, hazard identification methods, multi-risk assessment and resilience of complex systems, climate-related risks, reliability, expert elicitation, causation, simulation and modelling, uncertainty methods, human factors, organizational failures, use of data, failure detection and diagnosis, digital twin risk determination, decision methods, management processes, life cycle and operation, comments on standards, regulatory issues, training and educational issues, economic issues, case histories.