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Case Study – Ex Awareness

Are the people working in your hazardous areas fully aware of the risks they are exposed to and the controls that keep them safe? This case study walks through an ECI Hub client case study where the client operated within classified hazardous areas where explosive atmospheres could be present during normal or foreseeable abnormal conditions. Several members of their team were required to enter these environments as part of routine operations and maintenance activities. Read to find out more about the challenge, the solution and it’s impact.

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Case Study Template

Insights / kirsty

Case Study Template CASE STUDY Title Introduction A concise and engaging intro paragraph or couple of sentences. Purpose: Set the scene and give context. Outline why the reader should care and who this is for. Content to include: Who the client or project is (brief background). The industry or context if relevant. A one liner

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Designing for DSEAR Compliance

Insights / kirsty

Most DSEAR problems don’t happen because people ignore the regulations. They happen because of small, early decisions often made before anyone realises their long-term impact.
On many projects, DSEAR is assumed to be something that will be picked up later. Sometimes it’s treated as an operational issue. Sometimes hazardous area classification is delayed until layouts or equipment are already fixed. Sometimes responsibility isn’t clear, and everyone assumes someone else is covering it. Download this ECI Hub presentation dives into why early DSEAR thinking consistently leads to safer and more practical designs.

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Buncefield Disaster

Insights / kirsty

Buncefield: Lessons for Today’s High‑Hazard Industries INSIGHT What’s The Most Effective Way To Improve Integrity Across The Board? The Buncefield explosion remains one of the largest peacetime incidents in Europe. A failure of level control allowed a petrol tank to overfill undetected for several hours, forming a dense vapour cloud that drifted off-site and ignited

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Buncefield Disaster (Video)

Insights / Jon

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Buncefield explosion, ECI-hub, in partnership with the Tank Storage Association (TSA), have launched a new animated case-study video that brings the events of 11 December 2005 vividly to life as an engaging, practical training tool. The video translates each failure into today’s regulatory expectations (e.g. SIL/LOPA justification, proof-testing regimes, COMAH Safety Report requirements, PSA leadership principles) and highlights early warning signs that still appear on sites today.

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