Ensuring Safety and Security in Power Generation: Interview with: Brian Mulcahy, Managing Director, HIMA Australia, a sponsor company at the marcus evans Power Generation APAC Summit 2012, on reducing hazards and risks when working with power generation assets.

1. Ensuring
Safety and Security
in Power Generation
hats and safety boots. There must be class. They recognise the value of
more focus on delivering mission critical diversity for security purposes.
safety systems.
The same applies in process safety. If
When designing a plant, it is essential to an automation vendor supplies the
think of all the things that could create control system for the machine, overall
an unsafe condition. Process safety is process safety could be compromised if
about preventing the “incidents”. The the same vendor also supplies the
first step is to endeavour to design an safety system. This is not a good
inherently safe plant by engineering out practice.
risks wherever possible. Where this may
not be possible, safety engineers should How ca n p ow er g en era t i on
attempt to reduce the likelihood of an executives impact their company’s
Interview with: Brian Mulcahy, unsafe condition through the application bottom line?
Managing Director, HIMA Australia of high integrity control equipment in
order to reduce the likelihood of a It is crucial that power stations do not
potentially catastrophic incident. shut down. Under all circumstances they
“With increasing living standards in must remain operational and keep
Asia, it is important that companies generating power to guarantee supply.
build assets that are able to achieve Having a safety system that aids a
their design purpose,” says Brian
Mulcahy, Managing Director, HIMA The key company to improve system reliability
and plant uptime without comprising
Australia. As living standards improve,
so does public awareness of safety and is security safety performance can have a huge
impact on the bottom line.
its perception of a reliable supply.
From a safety system engineering
and diversity The US Secretary of State recently used
the term “Pacific century” and
company at the marcus evans Power highlighted that much foreign policy and
Generation APAC Summit 2012, politics will be geared towards the
taking place in Macao, China, 28 - 30 growth that is likely to occur in Asia
May, Mulcahy discusses the need for What are some practical methods over the next few years. Indeed - Asia
d iv e r s if y i ng s y s te m s i n p o w er for reducing hazards and risks when is booming!
generation assets. using machinery?
Closely associated with this economic
How can power generation systems The best place to start is early in the development, will be a rapid rise in the
be designed around safety? design stage of a project. Try to design standard of living and expectations of
out the risks where possible by millions of people throughout Asia. It is
There are three primary drivers in employing inherently safe design. Next, important therefore that companies
process safety: safety of the public and ensure that your safety system achieves build assets that will meet these future
the employees working with the asset, its purpose. If at all possible, ensure expectations. The reliability and safety
protection of the environment and the that you do not have common cause of crucial infrastructure such as power
protection of the asset itself. faults that can erode system integrity. generation is fundamental to achieving
this goal.
Safety has to do with having the right By way of comparison, most people
mindset. When people think of safety, recognise that if they have an As living standards improve, so does
they think of occupational health, investment portfolio, they should not public awareness of safety and its
preventing slips and falls - wearing hard invest all of their funds in one asset perception of a reliable supply.

2. About the Power Generation APAC Summit 2012
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delivers peer-to-peer information
China, 28 - 30 May 2012. Offering much more than any conference, exhibition or
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innovations.
The Summit includes visionary presentations and interactive forums on
unprecedented growth in the APAC energy sector, the foundation for a sustainable
and prosperous future and cutting back on dirty fuel consumption.
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About HIMA Australia
HIMA Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmBH, the world’s leading provider of process safety
technologies with more than 25,000 systems in operation throughout the world. HIMA solutions protect people and assets in
industries ranging from nuclear energy and petrochemical processing through to rail signaling and materials handling.
www.hima.com.au
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