Presentation title: Pressure Systems Safety Regulations - Review and Current Status
Presentation abstract/summary:
The Government’s ‘new approach’ policy is focused on making regulation more proportionate and ensuring that economic growth and innovation is prioritised over excessive risk aversion. As part of this, HSE were tasked to review older prescriptive legislation (inc. PSSR) and to identify and remove unnecessary regulatory burdens, reflecting both technological advances and reliability.
The subsequent HSE ‘call for evidence’ resulted in significant effort across industry The presentation provides background to EEMUA’s involvement in this process, what recommendations were made to HSE and to the current status of this activity.
Speaker’s name: Kevin Mckeown
Organization: Kevin Mckeown Consulting
Job title: Engineering Consultant
Biography:
Kevin is a graduate of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) and has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Chartered Member of the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
He has 40+ years of expertise, with most of his career spent in the downstream gas industry working for the largest multi-site LPG supplier in the UK. His experience and responsibilities have been wide and varied and include Project and Engineering Management, Pressure Equipment (transportable and fixed), Asset Integrity, Process Safety and ‘ISO 17020’ Inspection Body requirements.
Kevin has been the Technical Authority / Subject Matter Expert for various disciplines including piping systems, engineering management of change, hazardous area electrical requirements and atmospheric storage systems (including diesel tanks and methanol containment). He has been a member of industry working groups including CDOIF Use of 3rd Party Inspection, EEMUA’s Mechanical Integrity Practitioner Certificate (MIPC) and, more recently, WG146, the working group tasked with the delivery of EEMUA 244 - Above ground horizontal rectangular metallic storage tanks.
Kevin is now an Engineering Consultant and provides support, technical authoring and training on various matters including pressure systems, mechanical asset integrity, LPG and fuel storage systems. He is currently Lead Tutor for the MIPC.