ASSP Kuwait organises first technical meet for 2019-20
Highlights HSE studies role
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 8: American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) – Kuwait Chapter is a premier voluntary, non-profit making Health, Safety and Environmental organization, which strives to provide professional guidance, training, consultancy and resources to the industrial and social sectors in the region.
As part of its annual plan, ASSPKuwait Chapter organized its technical meet for the term 2019-2020 on two topics, titled 1. Role of HSE Studies in Project Life Cycle and 2. How to prepare a technical abstract” at ASSP-Kuwait Chapter’s Meeting Hall, Souk Sabah, Fahaheel.
The technical meet started off with the opening remarks by Mazharuddin Shaikh, Chapter Secretary, briefed about the importance of technical meets. Sunil Sadanand, President of ASSP Kuwait welcomed the participants and appreciated their participation in the technical meet. Jahid Thakor, briefed about the recent chapter activities and welcomed the participants to participate in the upcoming PDC 2019. Mustak Mirza, Head of HSE Events Committee introduced the speakers for the day Arshad Ayub and Ashok Lenka.
Arshad Ayub Shaik presented the topic “Role of HSE Studies in Project Life Cycle”. Arshad Ayub is currently working as a Safety Engineer in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Prior to this, he has worked as Process Safety Engineer in leading consulting companies and has conducted more than 50 QRA studies including software modelling in different sectors of industries including Oil & Gas, Chemical, Petrochemical, Refineries etc for reputed organizations such as KOC, KNPC, KGOC, PIC, ONGC India, IOCL, DCW, IAL, AMEC Foster Wheeler, Fluor, Petrofac, Saipem, Mott Macdonald and L&T in different countries – UK, Kuwait, India, Abu Dhabi & Kenya.
His academic achievements consists post graduated in Petroleum Engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, Gold medalist in Chemical Engineering (B. Tech), Presented a paper in Marry Kay O’ Conner Process Safety Centre titled “Risk Assessment: A tool for Control room siting” in Texas A&M University, USA.
Ashok Chandra Lenka CSP, CMIOSH presented the topic “How to prepare a technical abstract” is a Chemical Engineering Graduate from NIT Rourkeka. He started his carrier from 1980 in Indian Oil Corporation as a graduate engineer until Production Manager until 1995. He thereafter joined the HSE department in KNPC Kuwait till date. His specialization is Process Risk Assessments and HSE performance Management.
Ehab Said Elsayed explained about the technical abstract online submission for the 10thInternational HSSE & Loss prevention Professional Development Conference & Exhibition.
There were more than 80 participants attended the meet and got benefited. The presentation was followed by Question and Answer session.
The meet was very much interactive, and members clarified their queries with the speakers. The technical meet concluded with the thanks note by Jahid Thakor, Vice-President of ASSP Kuwait Chapter who thanked the speakers for their time and efforts in delivering the presentation towards the benefits of the ASSP Members. He thanked the HSE Events committee for organizing the event. For more details visit Kuwait.assp.org