Pre conference course C - Fundamentals of Process Safety in Laboratories
Instructors
Jaspreet Chana (UK) and Dan Thomson (UK)
Laboratories are dynamic environments where chemical and biological hazards intersect. While occupational safety focuses on protecting individuals from immediate harm, process safety is about preventing incidents that could escalate into major accidents, equipment damage, or containment breaches.
This one-day course is designed to bridge the gap between traditional lab safety practices and process safety principles commonly applied in industrial settings. Through a mix of theory, case studies, and interactive workshops, participants will learn how to identify hazards, assess risks, and implement controls that go beyond compliance, ensuring resilience and reliability in laboratory operations.
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Dan Thomson
Principal consultant at ERM
Chartered chemical engineer (CEng MIChemE) and functional safety engineer (TÜV Rheinland FSEng) with 18 years’ experience in Feasibility, FEED, EPC projects and operational plants. Experience has involved both technical delivery and project management within the oil & gas sector, energy transition, pharmaceutical and life sciences including high containment/ biocontainment facilities.
Dan has worked on a number of projects with experience including chairing workshops, conducting risk assessments, safety studies, process safety management, developing safety cases, due diligence and audit.
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Jaspreet Kaur Chana
Consultant Director at ERM
Jaspreet is a Chartered Engineer, principally with a background in Chemical and Process Engineering, she has worked in high risk, high consequence industries for over 15 years covering technical safety and loss prevention areas such as Process Hazard Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Functional Safety and Process Safety Management Systems.
Specialising in the Life Sciences, Jaspreet’s expertise lies in the management and implementation of process safety in biologics and high containment facilities in particular BSL-3 and BSL-4, providing strategic advice and support around governance and integrating the process safety framework within existing management systems with a particular focus on plant design, maintenance and operation.