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Technical Working Group on Seveso Inspections (TWG 2)

Preliminary Meeting Agenda

21-23 September 2022, Tallinn, Estonia

 

Wednesday, 21 September 2022

12:30

Lunch at the meeting venue (Hestia Hotel)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Afternoon Session
Chair:
E. Simon, Government of Steiermark, Austria

 

14:00

1.     Welcome (Estonian authority)

 

14:15

Opening Business (Chairperson)

§  Introduction of new members of TWG 2 and Steering Committee, TWG 2 Representatives 2022 (Chair)

•       New version of TWG 2 Terms of Reference (M. Wood)

§  Overview of the agenda (Chair)

§  Amendments to September 2021 meeting notes (if any) (Chair)

•       Action items from last meeting (M. Wood)

•       TWG 2 funding and strategy issues for 2022-2023 planning cycle (M. Wood)

§  TWG 2 Meeting 2023– Location and time (Chair)

•       TWG 2 Meeting Tool Kit – Suggestions for improvement (M. Wood/Suggestions from participants)

·         TWG 2 Website updates and improvements (M. Wood/Suggestions from participants)

 

15:00

2.     Mutual Joint Visit (MJV) Programme

•       MJV Information to the Public 2022 on Information to the Public - Update

•       MJV Portugal 2023 (A. Santos)

•       Technical Advisory Group for 2023 MJV Portugal (M. Wood)

•       Future of the MJV Programme – Follow-up on  volunteers to host MJV (Chair)
MJV Italy 2024,
 Denmark, Slovenia, New volunteers?

•       Review of MJV Priority Topics (see attached) (Chair)

•       Updates to MJV Toolkit – Improvements to tool kit, MJV programme? (M. Wood/Suggestions from participants)

•       Update on publication of MJV good practice reports (M. Wood)

•       MJV 2014 (SMS in multinational companies) and MJV 2015 (Safety leadership and culture)

•       Future MJV good practice reports – Any suggestions to improve? (M. Wood)

 

15:45

Coffee break

 

16:15

3.     TWG 2 Webinars

·         Webinar 2021:  Good Practice Report – Enforcement and risk management of hazardous sites during the Covid-19 pandemic (M. Wood, JRC)

·         Webinar 2022:  Ageing and Maintenance - Feedback from participants, webinar report (M.Wood, JRC)

·         Webinar 2023:  Discussion of potential topics

16:30

4.     CICs recently completed and in development

The CIC leader will describe the status of the CICs that are currently in development or have recently been finalised.

Published (or almost) (M. Wood, JRC)

·         Natech risk (Published, including questions)

·         Maintenance of primary containment systems (Published) – Request for suggestions of questions and tips

·         Training of personnel (Published, including questions)

·         Internal emergency planning (in publication)

·         Subcontractors (in publication)

·         Secondary containment (in progress)

·         Avoiding ignition sources (in progress)

 

17:00

5.     4. Common Inspection Criteria

·      Roundtable – How does each country use CICs?

Each participant should be prepared to discuss how their country (or inspectorate) uses the TWG 2 CICs.  This is an informal discussion as does not require a formal presentation.

 

17:45

Adjourn

 

       

 Thursday, 22 September 2022

Thursday morning session

Chair:  V. Henden Nilssen, Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), Norway

09:30

6.     Feedback on the CIC Development Process

·      Development of new CICs (procedure overview)

·      CIC outline and development tips – Any suggestions to improve?

·      Finalised CICs – Any suggestions to improve website?

 

10:00

7.     Presentation of CIC Topic in progress

·         Power supply utilities and black-outs (S. Wiers, The Netherlands, and K. Koutelos, expert)

 

10:30

8.     CICs in future

·         List of future topics

Please reflect on topics that would be interesting for your inspectorate and/or where you could make a contribution.  We will collect priorities for CIC topics from each of you in a separate email.

·         Discussion of possible topics to begin in 2023 and volunteers to lead them

 

10:45

Coffee Break

11:15

9.     New CICs – presentation of proposed outlines

Topic 1. Evacuation and sheltering for toxic emissions. Scope: response to a toxic cloud, (toxic) gas detection and alarm, shelters for toxic emissions, preventing entry into a room / building with toxic atmosphere (I. Domjan, Hungary)

Please note:  This CIC needs a topic co-leader.  If you have expertise, or someone in your organisation has expertise, on this topic, please consider volunteering to be a leader or co-leader.

11:30

10.   Break-out on common inspection criteria (CIC) (Divided in 2 groups)

·         Evacuation and sheltering for toxic emissions  

12:30

Adjourn for Lunch

       

 

 

 


Thursday afternoon Session
Chair: 
E. Simon, Government of Steiermark, Austria

13:30

11.   Summary of Break-out Sessions

·         Group 1

·         Group 2

14:30

12.   Enforcement issues

·         Enforcement – Article 19 (Prohibition of Use)  (Follow-up and updates from Member States on new cases)

·         Exchange of experience regarding excess storage Seveso sites in some Member States (Question from Finland)

·         Exchange of experience on ensuring safe operation on port sites subject to Russia financial sanction (Question from Estonia)

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

13.   Lessons learning - Question for discussion

o   Introduction by Maureen Wood (5 minutes)

Roundtable questions
There will not be power point presentation.  MAHB will provide a Word template where countries can provide their responses to each bullet in writing.  They can choose which bullet they will summarise in the roundtableEach country will have 3-5 minutes.

o   How do different countries promote lessons learning?
Roundtable discussion on country experiences regarding the following topics:

o   Tools and resources (e.g., database, newsletters, etc.),

o   Inspection strategies (checklist, discussion during inspection, etc.)

o   Describe one challenge or success

o   At the end of the presentation, pose a question on this topic that you would like discussed.

17:20

14.   CCPS Human Factors Guidance

Presentation by Charles Cowley on new guidance on human factors from CCPS

17:30

Adjourn for the day

 

Friday, 23 September 2022

Friday morning session
Chair:
V. Henden Nilssen, Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), Norway

09:00

15.     Question on temporary storage (does not include non-temporary storage)

·         Results of TWG 2 exchange on questions from Poland (R. Czapla)

·         Discussion and exchange of experience (Everyone)

09:45

16.     Waste issues

·         Lessons learned from Currenta accident, July 2021 (A. Kristensen, Denmark)

·         Identification of waste for coverage under Seveso (R. Bliem)

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

17.   New projects, research findings and publications and any other business

·         Projects involving risks of decarbonisation, new energy sources

o    Regulating large scale CO2 storage facilities in Norway (V. Henden Nilssen, Norway)

If your government has a project or is looking at permitting new sites,, please let us hear about it

·         Security-update to the regulation of chemical sites (Finland)

·         Online document register for hazardous sites (Estonia)

·         ADAM Version 3.0 (M. Wood, MAHB)

12:00

18.   Any other business

•       Summary of Meeting Results and Action Items

•       Location of next TWG 2 Meeting

12:15

Adjournment of meeting