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National Associations Meeting 2010
EIGA Newsletter, Issue No 4
March 2011
Welcome
EIGA is very pleased to welcome Stefan
Messer, Chief Executive of the Messer
Group, as the new President of EIGA for his
term of office 2011‐2012. He takes over
from Guy Salzgeber of Air Liquide.
Stefan Messer is succeeded as Vice‐
President of EIGA for 2011‐2012 by Todd
Skare, President, Praxair Europe & Middle
East.
Process Safety Symposium 2011
EIGA’s 2011 Symposium “Process Safety in the Gas Industry” took
place on 26 th and 27 th January with outstanding attendance by 269
delegates from more than 95 organisations and from 36 countries,
including guests from as far away as Papua New Guinea, Japan and
the USA.
Process Safety Symposium 2011
Stefan Messer
We received very positive feedback and comments from delegates,
which included the quality of the speakers, the engagement of the
audience in the panel sessions and the networking between the
sessions. On the basis of this feedback we consider that the event
was a great success! Our sincere thanks go to all members of the
Symposium Organising Committee.
Process safety is without doubt a key topic for the Industrial Gases
industry and the Councils and Working Groups will continue to build
on the momentum of the Symposium.
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Winter Session
News in Brief
Members
EIGA’s Winter Session in January
included a meeting of the Board of
Directors and the Extraordinary
General Meeting. During these
meetings, applications for Active
Membership of EIGA for twenty five
companies were approved. These new
companies extend EIGA’s membership
to six additional countries: Bosnia‐
Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Estonia and Lithuania.
Board of Directors
A number of Board appointments were
also confirmed. Following the elections
held in autumn 2010, Marco Annoni of
SOL and Wiebe Buist of Yara were re‐
elected as the Board representatives of
Cat. 2 and Cat. 3 members for 2011‐
2012; and Klaus Krinninger of IGV
Germany was elected as the National
Associations’ Representative to the
Board for 2011‐2012. Finally, Todd
Skare, the Board representative for
Praxair, was confirmed as EIGA Vice‐
President for 2011‐2012. Marco Annoni
of SOL and Wiebe Buist of YARA were
nominated as our two Internal Auditors
for 2011‐2012.
Working Group Award
The winner of the 2010 Working Group
Award was announced as WG‐9
(Classification, Labelling and Safety
Data Sheets) in recognition of the
tremendous amount of work they have
completed to make sure that our
industry has been well prepared for
REACH, for CLP and all the things
associated with those. The award will
be formally presented at our Summer
Session in Lisbon in June 2011.
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Winter Session Safety Awards
Company Safety Awards
The Winter Session saw the announcement and presentation of the
2010 Company Safety Awards. These awards are based on the lowest
lost time accidents rates reported over the twelve months from
October 1 st , 2009 to September 30 th , 2010, for each category of EIGA
membership.
The awards went to Praxair Europe in Category 1, Air Products France
in Category 2 and Air Liquide Maroc in Category 3.
Todd Skare of Praxair, Graham Rhodes
of Air Products and Youness Azrib of Air
Liquide Morocco receive the Company
Awards 2010 from Stefan Messer, EIGA
President.
Road Safety Awards
The EIGA Annual Road Safety Awards are presented to the companies
with the lowest preventable road vehicle accident frequency rate in
their appropriate category of the Road Safety Award. The 2010 award
is based on statistics from October 1 st , 2009 to September 30 th , 2010.
The awards went to Linde AG for Bulk Vehicles driven more than 5
million km annually; ACP Belgium for Bulk Vehicles driven between 1
million and 5 million km annually; Rivoira for Cylinder Vehicles driven
more than 2 million km annually; and Air Liquide Gas AB for Cylinder
Vehicles driven between 0.5 million and 2 million km annually.
Peter Stocks of Linde, Rik Timmermans
of ACP Belgium, and Guy Salzgeber of
Air Liquide receive the Road Safety
Awards 2010 from Stefan Messer, EIGA
President. Todd Skare received the
award for Rivoira.
Winter Session
News in Brief
Environmental Award 2010
Two winners of the 2010
Environmental Award were announced.
This award recognises best
environmental practice in EIGA
member companies. 14 high quality
nominations were received and from
these, two projects were selected for
awards. The first, in the category of
Applications, was awarded to Sapio
Produzione Idrogeno Ossigeno, in Italy
for their project ‘Soilution’, an
innovative “in situ” remediation
technology for groundwater and soil
contaminated with Chromium VI. The
second, in the category of Operations ‐
environmental improvements that have
been made on one of our member’s
production sites went to BOC Gases Ltd
Morden, UK for their environmental
team’s ‘Rising to the Challenge’ project
on environmental communication and
awareness.
The Environmental Award will be
formally awarded at the Summer
Session in June. Full details of these
projects and some of the other notable
ones will be covered in an
Environmental Newsletter to be
published by WG‐5 (Environment) in
the next few months.
2013
2013 may seem a long way off, but it is a
significant year for both EIGA and the
Compressed Gas Association in the
United States. 2013 marks the 90 th
anniversary of the founding of EIGA’s
predecessor, CPI, and it is also the 100 th
anniversary of the founding of CGA. To
help mark the EIGA anniversary, we are
starting to gather items that originate
from the year we were founded. For
example we have some member
companies looking out for cylinders from
1923! If any members have any items
from 1923 that they would like to share
with us for 2013, then let Andy Webb
know at a.webb@eiga.eu.
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Human Reliability – Human Failures
If we analyse the causes of the Lost Time Incidents and Recordable
Injuries reported by member companies in the Work Injury Statistics
(WIST) database, approximately 50‐60% have been reported as
‘human errors’. If we, as an industry, are going to continue to
improve our safety performance, we need to tackle the causes of
these incidents by focusing on the underlying human factors and safe
behaviours that result in these ‘human errors’. To support that
objective, the Safety Advisory Council (SAC) will be changing the
classification of “Human error” in future incident reporting to better
identify and understand these contributing factors and improve the
value of safety statistics in helping to develop programmes to reduce
incidents in the industry.
EIGA document 904/11 “Work Injury Statistics” will be reissued in the
next few weeks. This 2011 revision aligns the document completely
to the WIST Platform. In particular, Appendix 1E has been
substantially updated to separate the “Human error” classification
into seven categories of “Human failure” so as to better record the
outcome of human factor analysis in investigations. The new
classifications are:
� Human failure ‐ Skill Based Error
� Human failure ‐ Mistake
� Human failure ‐ Unintended violation
� Human failure ‐ Situational violation
� Human failure ‐ Organisational benefit violation
� Human failure ‐ Personal benefit violation
� Human failure ‐ Reckless violation
A further Appendix 2 has been added to the document to provide
further descriptions and examples of each type of human failure.
The WIST platform is being updated to allow Q1 2011 incident reports
to be entered using one of these new classifications in addition to the
existing causes. SAC are also producing a Human Factors Safety
Information Sheet on “Human Reliability and Human Failure“ in
support of this.
Transport Legislation Issues
Tunnels
Many of you will be aware of the restrictions placed on some tunnels
where ADR is applied. This impacts many EIGA members, and so an
Ad‐Hoc Group of the Transport Working Group (WG‐1) was formed to
look at the issues. To try and understand what could be done to
change the classification of class 2 products in the tunnel categories,
representatives of the Ad‐Hoc Group met with one of the agencies
involved in the original work that set the restrictions. From this
meeting, it does not appear that anything can be done in the short
term to make a change to the categories or the classification, and that
this may have to be looked at a National level. The Ad‐Hoc Group will
be meeting shortly to review what the next actions EIGA and the
National Associations could take.
News in Brief
EU Commission Propose Revision to
Seveso Directive
At the end of December 2011, the
Commission (DG Environment) adopted
a proposal to revise the Seveso II
Directive (Proposal for a Directive of the
European Parliament and of the Council
on the control of major accident hazards
involving dangerous substances). The
new rules in the Proposed Directive
would apply from June 1, 2015.
Discussions in the European Parliament
and the EU Council on the proposal will
take place during 2011.
EIGA has established an Ad Hoc Group to
review the proposed directive. The issue
of increasing the threshold for hydrogen
(see Position Paper PP‐29) was
acknowledged by the Commission and
the options presented and discussed in
the impact assessment document that
accompanied the Proposed Directive.
The decision of the Commission is that
“...at this stage the preferred option is to
leave the threshold unchanged, although
it should be recognised that appropriate
risk management may be required
should the hydrogen economy develop
in the longer‐term.” The most significant
proposed changes to Seveso II are:
� Alignment of the definitions of
substances falling within the scope of
the Directive with the EU system of
classification of dangerous
substances (CLP), to which it now
refers. There is also a new process to
handle substances with hazards that
are not reflected in CLP.
� Alignment of provisions relating to
the public’s access to safety and
environmental information with
existing EU Directives on this access,
with the intention of making access
to information and participation in
decision simpler.
� Introduction of the concept of safety
culture, and stricter standards for
inspections of installations to ensure
the effective implementation and
enforcement of safety rules.
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Telematics
Telematics is a subject that some of you will be familiar with, but for
those that are not it is the integrated use of telecommunications and
informatics, and it is becoming an area of increasing interest in many
areas. One of these areas is the transport of dangerous goods, where
at the joint meeting of RID/ADR/ADN a working group has been
established to consider what the requirements should be for the
transport of dangerous goods and Telematics. There is much
discussion on what is important for the transport of dangerous goods
as whilst it is possible to gather significant quantities of information
from vehicles, deciding what is important to avoid overloading the
information infrastructure is important. Also, to complicate matters,
there is much work being done across Europe and ensuring a
coordinated approach seems to be one of the greatest challenges.
There are a number of trials in place across Europe, but we do seem
to be a long way from a Europe wide system. EIGA will continue to
participate in this area as it does seem that one day we will have a
European wide system of tracking some or all dangerous goods.
HyCO and the ETS
Over the last two years, the Regulatory Environment Council (REC)
and its HyCO Benchmarking Task Force has taken important steps in
ensuring equality of treatment for outsourced HyCO plants.
In line with the EU Directive, HyCO plants will come within the EU’s
Emissions Trading System (ETS) from 2013, and will need to surrender
EU Allowances (EUAs) for carbon dioxide emissions. Each EUA
represents one tonne of carbon dioxide emission.
It is therefore important that members’ plants (outsourced) be
treated the same as “captive” or “insourced” alternatives and the
need for equality in terms of the free EUAs provided by the relevant
authorities, in partial recompense for EUAs required to be
surrendered, becomes critical.
� The work done to date has involved several critical, and
successful, advocacy steps. For example, “Recital 23” to the
Directive established principle of equality for outsourcing and
HyCO plants were added to the “exposure to carbon leakage” list,
the same as EIGA members’ large energy‐intensive customers.
� Further, for benchmarking of HyCO plants (on which the free
allocation of EUAs will be based), we achieved Commission
agreement on benchmarks that will avoid costly data‐gathering
effort on part of members and in practice will represent equality
with the “captive” or “insourced” alternatives of our members’
customers.
� Throughout the process, REC and Task Force members have
maintained close and productive relationships with other industry
associations such as Concawe and Europia, who represent the oil
refining industries, and Cefic.
Continued over/
Publications news
Carbon Dioxide Physiological Hazards ‐
“Not just an asphyxiant!"
The Safety Advisory Council (SAC) has
prepared a new Safety Information (SI
24/11) publication about the
physiological hazards of carbon dioxide.
While the asphyxiation hazard is well
known, carbon dioxide intoxication
hazard is not well understood by those
involved in the supply and/or use of
carbon dioxide.
SAC have received reports about serious
incidents involving carbon dioxide (CO2).
Tragically, some have resulted in
fatalities. A common cause in these
incidents has been a failure to recognise
the actual carbon dioxide concentration
in the working environment and
therefore the hazard.
This SI is intended to raise awareness of
the hazards of carbon dioxide
intoxication, to educate people on the
mechanism of intoxication and to
highlight the risks of mistakes when
analysing ambient air. The SI makes
recommendations on what steps should
be taken to minimise these risks.
Pierre Wolfs – 20 years with EIGA
We are very pleased to congratulate
Pierre Wolfs who this year celebrates 20
years of close association with EIGA.
Pierre was first seconded to EIGA as
Deputy General Secretary from January
1 st , 1991 until August 31 st ,1995. He was
seconded again to EIGA as Technical
Manager in January 2005 until March
2009 and since then has been EIGA’s
Technical Director.
Pierre has been influential in the
development of standards, legislation
and regulations relating to the transport
of our products; he was a member of
WG‐1 (Transport) from 1988 to 2005,
including a period as Chairman, and was
a consultant for CEN on the TPED
standards from 1997 to 2006. Since
2005 he has also guided the industry’s
involvement in REACH and CLP.
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HYCO and the ETS continued
The next steps on free allocation of EUAs to HyCO plants is to review
and comment on the draft guidelines that are due to be finalised by
the Commission in 2011 and thereafter to ensure that the equality
won for outsourced and insourced plants is maintained as the EU
“Decision” is implemented by Member States.
In summary and looking at the broader context of the work done by
REC, the “Decision” represents a significant success for HyCO, but this
needs to be managed through the next phases of implementation.
Other ETS‐related issues will continue to require REC’s attention,
including Measuring and Reporting Guidelines with respect to
transferred carbon dioxide and possible financial compensation for
large “indirect emitters” including large electricity consumers such as
ASUs.
Throughout this work EIGA has adopted two overriding advocacy
positions that have served us well so far and should continue to serve
us well ‐ equality for outsourcing and avoidance of market distortions.
Publication News
The following publications have been issued recently and can be
downloaded from the EIGA website:
Position Papers:
Position Paper PP‐33 ‐ Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Compensation: Benchmark Proposal for Air Separation Plants.
Briefing Notes (in Members Area):
Briefing Note BN‐11 ‐ Benchmarking: Air Separation Plants and
Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions.
Safety Information:
Safety Info 24/11 ‐ Carbon Dioxide Physiological Hazards ‐“Not just
an asphyxiant!”
Documents:
IGC Doc 57/11 ‐ Recommendations for avoidance of sustained load
cracking of aluminium alloy cylinders.
IGC Doc 64/11 ‐ Use of residual pressure valves.
IGC Doc 91/10 ‐ Use of pressure relief devices for gas cylinders.
IGC Doc 96/11 ‐ Alternatives to hydraulic testing of gas cylinders.
Training Packages (in Members Area):
Training Package TP 15/10 ‐ ADR 2011 ‐ The Changes.
Training Package TP 22/11 ‐ Recent Incidents in the Industrial and
Medical Gases Industry (SAC 122).
Training Package TP 23/11 ‐ Recent Incidents in the Industrial and
Medical Gases Industry (SAC 124).
EIGA Office Documents (in Members Area):
EIGA 908/10 ‐ 300 bar residual pressure valve filling connectors.
EIGAzette 37 ‐ January 2011.
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Terminology and definitions
Work has just begun on the revision of
an International and European Standard,
(EN ISO 10286) covering the terminology
associated with gas cylinders. Many of
you will be wondering “why do we need
a standard on “Terminology”, after all a
cylinder is a cylinder surely?”. Cylinders
are the simple part, but when you come
to terms such as test pressure and
inspection bodies things start to get
more difficult. Over the years, as
standards have been developed, new
definitions for the same term have been
written into different standards. The
result is that in some cases we can have
three or four definitions for the same
activity or process. As we are living in an
ever increasingly regulated environment,
this can lead to confusion and questions
of interpretation, so this project has
been launched to try and have a
harmonised set of terms and definitions
which will be used in standards and
regulations. How does this impact EIGA?
In the long term we will be looking at
our own documents to ensure that we
too are consistent, both with these
international definitions as well as within
our own documents.
Events News
EIGA Summer Session 2011: will be
hosted by the Portuguese National
Delegation at Cascais near Lisbon from
2 nd to 3 rd June 2011. Registration is now
open and details are available from the
dedicated Summer Session 2011 website
at www.eigalisboa2011.com. The
Session is open to EIGA members only.
National Associations’ Meeting 2011:
will be held at the Sheraton Brussels
Hotel in Brussels on 13 th and 14 th April
2011.
EIGA Winter Session and Workshop
2012, titled “Oxygen Safety in the
Industrial and Medical Supply Chain” will
be held during the Winter Session 2012
in Brussels on 25 th and 26 th January.
For latest information on these and
other items see News at www.eiga.eu.
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