XI - Nice (1993)

XI Congress Nice (1993)

The 11th Safex Congress was held in Nice (France) with the sponsorship of the three French Explosives Manufacturers. If you need a hard copy of one of the presentations below, please contact the safex secretariat.

PROGRAMME OF THE 11TH SAFEX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

Nice , France

May 5th - 8th 200

Group A : Management of Safety

11/A1 Management by Objectives (MBO) applied to safety - F Sanchez Guttierez, UEE, Spain
11/A2 Health and Safety management in the explosives industry - JA Enever, NEC Stevenston
11/A3 Safety training : improvement through learning - JE Coetzee, AECI, Rep South Africa
11/A4 The ACACIA incidents data bank - P Chereau, B Moreau, SNPE Paris
11/A5 A different view point on safety management - J French, Exchem Expl, GB
11/A6 The impact of improved distribution methods on the safety and security of explosives handling - DW Evans/RC Prior, AECI Rep South Africa
11/A7 The FEEM approach to safety - JE Dolan, FEEM, NEC Stevenston

Group B : Safety of water based explosives

11/B1 Improvement of the safety for the continuous manufacturing process of emulsion explosives - L Dessaix, EPC - Nitrochimie / France, Dipharma / Italy
11/B2 Pumping of water based explosives - A Begg, ICI International, Canada
11/B3 Safety aspects of energetic additives in emulsion explosives - N Fiederling, DNAG Troisdorf
11/B4 MMAN sensitised emulsion, hazard study - GRF Goor/ St deV Tough, AECI Rep South Africa
11/B5 Thermal hazards of emulsion explosives - M Braithwaite, ICI International,Stevenston
11/B6 D not convert emulsions into dynamites - G Ekman, Nitro Nobel AB, Gyttorp
11/B7 A major accident in a water gels plant - P le Jan, EPC - Nitrochimie, France
11/B8 Detonation of un-dissolved salts in a MAN liquor tank - AS Haslett, Ulster Ind Expl, Northern Irelan
11/B9 Burning ground explosions with permitted emulsion - GRF Goor/JE Coetzee, AECI Rep South Africa
11/B10 Spontaneous combustion inside insulator of a storage tank of Ammonium nitrate for emulsion - JF Moens, Nobel Explosifs Belgique, Belgium
11/B11 On some properties of a matrix emulsion in the production of emulsion commercial explosives - N Rabotincki, S Smirnov, NPO 'Kristall', Russian Federation

Group C : Safety of Propellants, Nitrocellulose and Pyrotechnics

11/C1 Ventilation of nitroglycerine vapors from differential rolling of double base powder - T Husaas, Dyno Industrier, Norway
11/C2 Two accidents in a black powder plant during one year - Nada Lukman-Flis / Domenica Niederwanger, Podjetje Kamnik Slovenia
11/C3 Incident in drying house for pyrotechnics - A Begg, ICI International, Canada
11C4 Explosion of nitrocellulose inside a centrifuge - JM Ayensa Muro, UEE Spain
11/C5 Learning from the Peterborough explosion - F Murray, NEC Stevenston

Group D : Miscellaneous

11/D1 Safety aspects in decontamination, demolition and environment remediation - S deV Tough, AECI Explosives & ChemicalsLtd, Rep South Africa
11/D2 Decontamination and rehabilitation of plants having manufactured dangerous explosive products - B Hueber, Nobel Explosifs France, Paris
11/D3 hysiological effects of NG/EGDN exposure - A Smith / S deV Tough, AECI Rep South Africa
11D4 Serious health effects from exposure to NG explosive - R Stahl Nitro Nobel AB Gyttorp
11/D5 Unstabilised PETN explosion - GRF Goor / JE Coetzee, AECI Ltd, Rep South Africa
11/D6 lectronic scale in detonator department - GRF Goor / R Prior, AECI Ltd Rep South Africa
11/D7 Press fires during detonator manufacture EG Mahadevan et al, IDL Chemicals, India
11/D8 Safety aspects of the demilitarisation of explosive ordnance - R Flueckiger, Oerlikon-Contraves-Pyrotec, Switzerland
11/D9 Explosion of a Tellex mixer - RC Prior, AECI Explosives & Chemicals Ltd, Rep South Africa